SARAH & GEOFF
Met brievly first time in La Paz - Bolivia, we are lucky to meet them again in "La casa de ciclistas", Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil just before them to embarque on a boat cruise to cross Atantic to come back home - England.
Nice bicycle journey funny written across the Americas, have a look HERE!
Sarah & Geoff
SEBASTIAN
Sick as a dog, we passed him on a climb to a pass - Peru. Reserved and very humble, we never found a picture of him on his blog but his holly bicycle.
From Colombia, he set off his journey paying homage to his sister and mom, heading South to Ushuaia then up to Uruguay and the province of Missiones - Argentina where he donated his bicycle.
Daily updated blog, have a look HERE!
Casa de ciclistas – LA PAZ, Bolivia
Point de rencontre des cyclo-voyageurs, tous faisons halte ici histoire de reposer les gambettes usees et organiser les prochains troncons de route exigeants.
5 jours a profiter de l’endroit et sa compagnie, nous sommes 12 cyclos en ce debut octobre 2012:
clicker ICI pour une visite de la Casa de ciclista, vu par Flo et Franck
Thomas et Damien: 2 francais voyageant en velo couche partis de Quito et filant au Sud
Florence et Franck: couple francais aliant velo et montagne
Arthur: parti de Mexico Ciudad, lui-aussi met le cap au Sud
Jorge: espagnol ayant demarre son odysee en Alaska, amoureux de la photo, nous ferons route en sa compagnie pendant un mois jusqu’au Nord de l’Argentine
Urs: Suisse de Winthertur sillonnant le continent depuis quasi 2 ans, aussi calme que sa grandeur
Martin: Suisse de Winthertur filant au Sud
Matias: Argentin, musicien-cycliste fabriquant des instruments a vent a coup de bambou, grandiose!
Couple Franco-Suisse, nous roulons 2 jours en leur compagnie en direction de la Cordillera Blanca – Peru. Partis de Suisse en mettant le cap a l’Est, ils aboutiront en Australie, puis Nouvelle-Zelande pour enfin ralier le continent Sud-Americain a bord d’un paquebot. Colombie en direction du Sud, ils prevoyent une rentree par voie maritime en direction de l’Europe depuis Montevideo – Uruguay.
RYO
Japanese World biker, we met Ryo by accident in the campground - he is our neighbord!
2011 will be his African year, he left Cape Town and is on the way up to Egypt.
Next? Europe and back home to Japan by land of course!
Was nice meeting you Ryo, impressive Japanese :-)
CLAIRE & JEREMIE, vive les accordeons!
La rencontre fut comme programmee. On savait Claire & Jeremie dans le coin, le monde des voyageurs a velo est petit. Un devant de supermarche au milieu de Livingstone - Zambie, c'est chose faite, on se "tombe dessus".
Folo de musique, 2 accordeons, 1 clarinette et 1 Didjeridoo, leurs coups de pedales se voient allourdis par ce chargement sonore. Le ton est donne a chaque arret de village, autour d'un feu, les notes musicales n'ont pas de frontieres.
Partis de France il y a plus d'un an - descente le long de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, reste a remonter par l'Est pour mieux retourner a la maison!
Bon vent les amis!
MARGRIT & PIUS
We met just for a few minutes on the road exiting Lilongwe. Margrit & Pius - 2 Swiss German - were coming from Zambia. We wish we could have talked for longer since they are a couple with long travel experience by bicycle. Good luck to complete the world tour!
PEDRO - The "Slow nomad"
Pedro set off from his home land New Zeland. He has never taken a plane but sailed to cross the ocean. Once on land he is biking again. Crossing Africa from South to North, we met him in the post office in Aswan (Egypt) as we were going South.
So far, he is the only one who has enjoyed biking in Ethiopia, ignoring the stones thrown by the kids!
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