The objective of the #Joburg2Kili expedition is to cycle approximately 4630km from Johannesburg to Moshi in Tanzania over a 10 week period riding a Qhubeka Buffalo Bicycle. We will then join Soul Adventures Tour group to climb and summit Mount Kilimanjaro. We aim to literally be on top of Africa on our 5th Wedding Anniversary – 15th October 2016.

Our departure date is the 30th July 2016 and we will drive back to South Africa in early November.

Warrick has plotted a route which primarily stays on main roads where there are more campsites, fuel supplies and shops along the way. The route goes from South Africa up Eastern Botswana to Victoria Falls in Zambia and then onwards to Lake Malawi. Here we will ride along the Western shore of the lake as they head North into and across Tanzania to the town of Moshi at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro.

We have a Jeep Wrangler as a support vehicle to follow us along the route up to Tanzania which will be driven by our two support crew members, Bobby Fuller and Bryan Fawcett. We have also recently had two additional cyclists join the expedition, Derrick Fourie, owner of Rug Doctor and Gareth Pickering from TheFreedomFighter.net.

As part of the expedition we wanted to support a charity called Qhubeka, which is the World Bicycle Relief’s program in South Africa.

World Bicycle Relief is a global non-profit organisation that helps people move forward and progress by giving bicycles in return for work done to improve communities, the environment or academic results. Having a bicycle changes lives by increasing the distance people can travel, what they can carry, where they can go and how fast they can get there.