The Memoir of Cycling Around the World: Chile to Kili Book

It has been a while since I posted here last time. This is because Chile to Kili ride had its own domain before went out of control to adult content host. I still wonder how could that happened. Is there someone seat down and created a porn site and decide to name it Chile to Kili? There are no short wonders in this life. I write about my travels, adventure, conservation, community, and sustainable development. 

That been said if you are still with me, I'm glad to share with you the memoir of my cycling which includes the biography of my growing up adventures. Throughout my experience, a lot of people wonder how did I conceive the idea of cycling around the world. In the book, I share the adventure of my childhood from the foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro. My life has been of such an adventure that explains the take on of cycling around the world. I also wanted to share my life with many other young people particular here in Africa who may or we share the same background. My cycling was the quest for education and support for others who are in a similar need. Nature and environment conservation was my message, here I share more how my life has been shaped by growing up and working in nature. 

Travel with the bicycle as a young African is more than adventure, every single kilometer was a wonder even in my home country. The places which were only a dream become a true experience. There are no enough words to explain the night camping in the Atacama desert or cycling through the equatorial rain forest of Africa leave alone the busy streets of Landon. The opportunity to see, experience, and share with many the story of conservation and sustainable development, for me it was like a daydream. 

Contrary to the common perception of conflicts, wars, and hate I received and enjoyed a generally warm welcome throughout my journey. Though this doesn't mean I didn't have my share of our reality. As an African here I share my observation, hope, and wishers.  And finally, as from the beginning, I hope my journey will be an inspiration for other young Africans to take on the actions to find a solution for our challenges.Now you can get the copy of Chile to Kili Book at; www.chiletokili.life. Amazon; https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08PBN883Z&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_1knYFbQ81CYBX  

Nubian...

As we stick with Nile moving from one historical town to another, the scenery is still stunning and wonderful, the green valley bordered with backed desert just divided by road. The bounty of the landscape is added by Nubian villages along the valley, some abandoned, some still in use. These plus Nubian people with their dressing who mostly you will, meet on the carts pulled by donkeys though it not pleasant to look how these people worked the animal here, in most occasion you will see people sitting under shade drinking chai, tea. It is like traveling back to centuries.
At Edfu we had few hours break as we made it in town early, it is harbor of Nile. There are plenty of Nile cruise ships stops here for break whereby passengers board horse cart across the town to the temple. In down town guys shout at me “my cousin” so blacks are cousin of Nubian!
Being tail, head or sides wind it was only dinner talking but eventually we made to Assuan. The most southern and beautiful city of Egypt with all the fancy such Novel hotel on the Nile and MacDonald all this absorb riders for few hours. In the next morning it was convoy though outstriket of Assuan, Assuan dams with magnificent view of Nile as it meander through the desert, our beloved Egypt end on the lake Naser.
It take almost two hours of straggling to get in the boat then two hours again of make sure everything was under control. The boat is the link between two similar but not the same country, Egypt is far to the modern while her cousin straggling in the primitive but with the same need. Arabs are merchants according to history and that is what I found out here. The commodity are range from food product such sugar, rice to electronics such TV, air condition all, cell phone, etc. all is all but “Made in China”. As usual outsider you will be amazed by the local culture and tradition, if you will say let me wait it going to take the whole day. May be somewhere else but here these guys carrying 20 t0 30kg or any sort of balk sack they only shout to each other, “I’m going in!” Yes I see but let me get out first”, “No”” Me first for the god sake this sack it is very heavy “. So it goes for hundred people or so. For western quality it this boat is peace of “shirt” , no one will be left behind, what called “second class” maybe it is not for more than 20 passengers so today most of as we will be in “Non class” on the deck with service of fresh air and wonderful sun set and rise. At 5pm we set off.
At 12am in the next day we was in Wadi Alfa harbor take some few hours going though custom and migration posses ride in convoy for few km to the camp.

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.