The road is the community – as it is in much of the developing world and Madagascar is no exception. Villages proliferate along the fringe of the bitumen, and there are folks walking all day long it seems, between town and country. Heading away from the main arterial, the foot traffic thins out a bit, […]
After a disturbed night lying in a bed of sweat trying to get some shuteye in Miandrivazo, Madagascar’s hottest location, deep in the interior, but not high enough to mitigate the oppressive heat that sends the locals scurrying into the shade for a good part of the day, it is dawn at last. All the […]
Our motorcycle trip ‘Madagascan Magic’, this ride will soak up the Galapagos of Africa… in photos! Browse through the galleries below.
We’re down at Morondava. We’ve come down from the 1400 metres of Madagascar’s central highland and tonight are on the west coast at Morondava. It’s a hell of a lot hotter and we’ve sweated to get here – all to arrive at the world famous “Avenue of the Baobabs” – those crazy trees that look […]
As Smokie’s song “Living Next Door to Alice” goes, any lass with that name can surprise you. 160 kms south of Antananivro is Antsribe, a spa town the Norwegians “discovered”. But we’re not too caring about that, just getting used to these bikes and navigating the outskirts of Madagascar’s capital so we can get to […]
Flying across Madagascar I feel already I’ve been conned – the landscape is parched and treeless, with each valley heavily terraced and the sure signs of rice paddies a giveaway to what’s happening below. As we are on final approach into Antananivro airport we see our first tarsealed road but no vehicles. Thoughts of the […]
Worldbybike gets back on the road in September with a three week jaunt around Madagascar. Jo, Dave and myself are off to the land of the Lemur and are looking forward to riding down the Avenue of the Baobab trees. The island, twice the size of New Zealand and with 21 million people is renowned […]
We have this plan to ride our motorcycles down the length of the Korean peninsula, from the north of the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) to the southern tip of the ROK (Republic of Korea). The reason is to show that if some insignificant, non-threatening individuals can enjoy the company of Koreans across the […]
September 2012, Madagascan Magic Scheduled to commence in September 2012 this ride will soak up the Galapagos of Africa where the species diversity is its hallmark and highlights the most stark of differences to the African mainland, confirming origins of this land were as much related to India as Africa. The roading infrastructure is limited […]
The idea to traverse the world by motorcycle wasn’t one of those flash-in-the-pan inspirations but rather, came about after completing a number of overseas motorbike tours and deciding after each one that we’d rather ‘just keep going’ than return home. It’s a privilege to visit so many countries, experience cultures and societies that are so […]
