160km bicycle test

I wake up 6:30am this is not common to me. I’m early raiser usually I wake up 5:00am. I get out and find it is raining, what is a great disappointment as I was planning to cycle to Moshi town and come back in the same day. After long internal argument I decide to cycle no matter the whether condition.

I left 800am as it was still rain but not heavy. After few kilometers from when I start to cycle the rain went off. The sun comes out when I was near to reach Moshi. This was very nice riding as the cold cool the body.

On the way I meet El Bariki doing the exercise for up coming racing completion. He told me he will participate with his club, Mount Meru Cycling Club. We didn’t know each other but he told me he used to see me in the town. I left El Bariki who was going back to Arusha town and continue with my cycling.

I found a lot of the people busy on the farm, removing the weeds and put fertilize on the middle size maize, the common food crop. The green pusure recovering and provide food to the cattle, sheep, goat and donkey. Livestock are looked healthily compare to the time before rains.

I reach Moshi town 11:30am, I use three hours and half to cover 80km. I stopped at the Central Garden which situated few meter from Moshi Bus terminal, nearby keep left and regional postal offices.

I had lunch at Moshi then start to cycle back to Arusha 3:00pm. This time was bit hot but after about 50 km the sun start to sink on the west and left the sky in the golden color. I reach Arusha town before dark.

Rough Budget

CYCLING AROUND AFRICA (Arusha to Cape Town 60, 000km 40,000miles)
ITEMS COST FOUNDED

Equipment

Bike 200 USD 120USD by myself and the remain by Globe Alliance
for Africa.

Helmet funded by LIMAR-ITALY
Tubes 4 20USD


Tires 80USD (founded by Global Alliance for Africa)

Bike Tools (repair kit) 100USD (not yet funded)

Bicycle Bags funded (20 Euro) By VAUDE Germany

Cycling clothes funded (30 Euro) By VAUDE Germany

Cycling glove

Cooker/Stove 100USD ($65funded anonymous)

Food 200USD (funded by my friend Thilo from Germain)

Hostel/Camping 150USD (not yet funded)

Return Bus(Emergency) 100USD (not yet funded)

Visas 100USD (funded by Eric http://mzungueriki.blogspot.com/)

Health/Medicine 200USD (not yet funded)

Build a bicycle and Maintenance training

After coming back from 15days cycling expedition which aimed to study the northern & southern Pare mountains, Mkomazi valley & national park, west & east Usambara mountains ( Bothe Pare and Usambara Mountains represent the Eastern Arc Mountains which study show/proof to be the oldest forest rage in Africa, stretch back more than 30 million years ago, the mountain forest start from Taita hills in Kenya and stretch south wards to Pare, Usambara, Udizugwa, in Tanzania continuo to Zambia where it end up. The unique of these regions characterized with endemic.)
The cycling feasibility sturdy continuo to the early (from 14th century) historical towns of Tanga, Tongoni, Pangani (river& town the entrance of early traders and explorer to interior mainland), Bagamoyo & Kaole (the oldest harbor and towns, kaole 14th century ruins grave yard, mosque, etc) Zanzibar (slave market, sultan kingdom, clove plantation, etc) and Dar-es-salaam the peaceful harbor, model city and old Germain Boma 19th century.
The expedition also was the exercise or part of cycling around Africa feasibility study project.
After coming back I’m working on the two challenge parts, First, Financial, to raise the money in to cover the first Pedal from Arusha-Tanzania to Cape of Good Hope South Africa, approximately 6,000km which I planned to cover for 2mounths by cycle 100-150km per day.
Secondly; to build a bicycle to tackle the task ahead, So far in this part I have already see the green light after Global Alliance For Africa vijana center agree to support in bicycle building, provide the train for bicycle maintainace and repair also they will donate repair kit and some of the spares such as tube and tires.
Global Alliance for Africa is non-governmental, non-profit organization which among their aims and objectives is to promote bicycle transport in Africa, to collect the used bicycle from abroad (re-cycle) and donate them to the African countries, to train the youth in bicycle maintenance and repair, for more info. Please visit www.globalallianceforafrica.org
Strongly, I hope the 2weeks; 2hours per day train will help me to become expert of my own bicycle. Thanks to Global Alliance for Africa vijana center especially Mr.Bonifece Kimboka director of Vijana Center, Mr. Shaibu Lazir bicycle Pregame Manager, the whole management and stuff.

Elvis Humphrey

Elvis "Lelo" Munis is an African youth with the type of vision that is generated only when poignant personal experience collides with extraordinary vantage point. Just as Africa is a continent of contrast, Elvis’s world consists of point and counter-point. From the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Elvis might feel his imagination soar, reluctant to let his eyes drop to the villages below where despair hangs heavy like cooking smoke. As he skirts the plains of the threatened land known as the Serengeti, the word “fragility” goes round and round in his mind, like the spinning wheels of his bike. And though he may open the way to those attracted by the richness and natural splendor of Eastern Africa, he honors the sacred trust of such places as Ngorongoro preserve in the crater highlands of Tanzania.

Elvis started Afrikas Safari in 2007 with several goals in mind. He recognized how important it is to look well beyond what is on hand today to a future time when African treasures might hang in balance along with those everywhere on the globe. He has aligned his company with partners engaged in conservative, sustainable development and eco-tourism endeavors.

Elvis is inquisitive by nature and asks hard questions. How can we Africans best counter backwardness with personal development? How can we foster self-empowerment to combat poverty and dependence? Elvis is charting his own way down this new road: He is pulling himself up by his bicycle cleats. His efforts to promote education have included a recent bicycle ride through twenty countries. Beginning in Arusha, Tazmania, Elvis and others ended their trip two months later in Cape Town.

Elvis was born in Marangu village in 1986. He has lived in Tanzania all his life but in the process of building his business, has traveled to 14 countries. His entrepreneurial spirit is helping him to overcome his impoverished start in life. He would like to help other Africans move beyond poverty and work toward a stronger place in the modern world.

Cycling Around Africa

Bicycle tours are an excellent and intimate way for the intrepid traveler to truly discover a nation and its people: freed from the physical and cultural constraints of motorized transport, one is able to experience the reality of a place.


Cycling between Arusha Tanzania, East Africa (half way from Cairo Egypt to Cape of Good Hope) to Cape Town South Africa, first part. In fact Africa is the victim of globe threading climate changers, pre-trophy hunting recently poaching, and mass tourism (vehicle and tracks) contribute to the fast degrading of Africa non-renewable resources.

Behind the political map of Africa lies an older, biological one, which scientists have only recently drawn in detail. “ we’re looking at the perspective of plants and animals.” “It’s a better way of measuring what we’re loosing.”

In most of the world large mammals like elephants died out late in the Pleistocene, around 10,000 years ago, perhaps because of human hunting . In Africa, where animals and people coexisted for more than two million years, large mammals survive in appreciable numbers, predators and prey, roaming forests and savanna. Sparse human populations and pre-industrial economies enabled large animals to survive.

Sustainable Eco-tourism is a best way to keep and maintain the African Natural Heritage for future generations. The project of field study for cycling around Africa we help organize and arrange the activities such as back road, active, cross-cultural, educational, environmentally friendly, economically responsible, moderate adventure level, sustainable Eco-tourism.




Leaving Arusha 5th June I'll pedaling towards The Cape of Good Hope Ooh yes Good Hope.



Why cycling:
The main purposes of the cycling trip are;
 To conduct a field study of the natural attractions and locations from East Africa to Southern Africa,
 To identify stakeholders in the area both along the road, and the hinterland each side
 Meet and establish the contacts with the stakeholders.
 Survey the areas and determine the condition/climate
 Collect information any similar project/study/expedition.
 Identify those areas that the required infrastructure
 Develop a basic awareness.
 Africa because no one place or country in Africa epitomizes Africa.
 Introduce new form of bike tours / cultural adventure for Westerners seeking to learn more about Africa
 To insure the Safety and Security is a primary concern in our selection of destinations and routes
 To promote Eco-tourism and cultural tourism within Tanzania and beyond it borders

It is generally assumed that tourism is a good and godsend for non-industrialized countries and that Eco-tourism is the best and bicycle tourism is a viable option that needs to be explored.

A bicycle-friendly climate is the starting preparation in welcoming bicycle tourism. The cycling activity by local people is a good indicator of bicycle use among the population of residents, so if a level of bicycle use is growing and already high then this may be a good indication that it will be good cycling for visitors. The time has come to address and explore the opportunities bicycle tourism can offer within the larger picture of tourism as a whole.

While the bicycle way offers exceptional tourism experiences increasing its popularity is likely to be compared to going uphill into a headwind slowly. In our global world the massage of tourism and the momentum for how people choose to spend their holidays is pointing in different directions so three needs to be some change.

To change any patterns of behaviors it is useful to understand what drives personal attitudes and to most westerners their choice of leisure activity reflects their personal measurement of a successful holiday.
Here success seems to be calculated by how many entries you have in your passport, how many cantonments have you played golf on, how many elephants have you seen and how many roll of films have you shot.

In order to change tourism we must first change the ethics and goals of tourist.

Is tourism about turning someone else’s scenic background into a play ground(front yard) into foreigner who can afford to pay for it. Or, does tourism has certain responsibility when its come to the visit? What standards should be what extent are visitors responsible for respecting local cultural.

Activists who are interested in changing in changing the tourism sector must first work at reshaping the values and attitudes by which people use to measure their holidays.