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The idea of cycling through Africa had never entered my mind until my mate Winston Bowler (aka HAT) suggested we should consider it.   He told me about Tour d’Afrique and reckoned we should give it a crack.   So in 2015, I made the decision and paid the deposit to do the 2018 Tour d’Afrique.   I kept pressing Hat to see if he had paid his deposit and it was Jan 2017 that he finally called it that he couldn’t do it. Well that wasn’t going to stop me from doing it.  So thats how I got to the idea to do this journey.  The Journey from Cairo to Cape Town Our original trans-continental journey and flagship expedition crossing Africa from north to south, covering almost 12,000 km in four months. This will be the 16th edition of the Tour d’Afrique – a test of mind, body, and bicycle. Traveling through 10 countries in all, you will cycle along the Nile past ancient temples, through the Sudanese d