Blog | cyclingforrangers

Has anything actually changed?

It is easy to sit here, back in London, as normal life begins to absorb us once again, restoring the blinkers we had so enjoyed abandonin...

Bwindi Inpenetrable Forest

Having cycled 7000km through eight countries, one would naturally presume the closest we would have come to a fatal encounter would have ...

Akagera

In 1994, the year I was born, an event happened that would come to define Rwanda in the world’s collective memory and change the course o...

Silver Linings

We’ve made it to Kigali. The four of us collapse on the sofas of Theo’s cousins house and the pain of the last few days are forgotten. Fo...

Tanzanian Space Odyssey Part I

An odd title one might presume when tuning in to find out how the cycling for rangers pan African cycle adventure is going after several w...

Mala-wi there yet?!

In true Cycling For Rangers fashion, the sun started to set behind the vast expanse of mountains on our left and we were stuck 50km from ...

Zambia: eye-opening, challenging, incredible.

There was something both ceremonial and strangely underwhelming about seeing our first poached elephant carcass. Approaching the scene of...

Livingston to Liuwa Plains National Park

We’ve just come to the end of 6 days in Liuwa Plain National Park. We had two objectives. To film for Time and Tide Foundation, a short p...

The Painted Dog Conservation and Hwange Park, Zimbabwe

Hurtling through a forest on top of a Landrover, ducking and diving out the way of the branches overhead, battling fiercely not to get th...

The Road To Hwange

As I sit in the back of a Land rover Defender whistling through Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, there is no better time to reminisce on...

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