Peter Gostelow

Poser on the track. Trains in Tanzania don't run frequently. A total of two per week travel the 1,860km length of this single-track railway, which connects landlocked Zambia with the port of Dar-es-Salaam. If I wasn't travelling by bicycle and in no rush, the train would be …

Slow travel in western Tanzania. At first I thought this overloaded truck was the local public transport option, but as all the passengers were young men I think it's more likely they were a road construction crew, working on widening and upgrading this main thoroughfare con…

Lake Nyasa ahead (or Lake Malawi as it's better known). In the scorching African heat, the sight of a freshwater lake (the world's fourth largest) was very welcome after several hard days in the saddle. Lake Malawi is one of the great lakes of the East African Rift - 560 kil…