JPFreek - Index

JPFreek - magazine - Index

your senses. You feel the temperature drop as you
relentlessly crank to the summit of each mountain pass.
You smell, or perhaps stop to taste strange foods cooking
as you roll through villages that are rarely visited by tourists.
You hear the birdsong provide a melody to the tempo of
your cardiovascular system. And you observe the flora
change across the diverse geography of an entire
continent. Exposure to the elements makes you feel alive.
This is what creates the Zen of cycle touring. For some the
best part is that the daily exercise allows you to eat like a
king with complete disregard for your waistline.
Tour d’Afrique Ltd is a cycle tour company named after its
flagship program. Based in Toronto, Canada, its specialty is
in creating exotic trans-continental cycling adventures.
Other products include the Orient Express, Paris to Istanbul,
the Silk Route, Istanbul to Beijing and Vuelta Sudamericana,
Rio de Janeiro to Quito. But the underlying objective to
promote international sustainable transportation is fulfilled
by the work of the Tour d’Afrique Foundation. In 2008 with
the generous support of the participants the foundation
was able to donate 265 bicycles throughout Africa. The
recipients include health care workers and other social relief
agencies. The bicycle allows the efforts of these people to
expand into new remote areas where vehicle access is
limited and assistance is rarely delivered. In a world
plagued by a dependency on depleting fossil fuels these
cyclists not only prove that you can go anywhere on a bike,
but they also give something back to the incredible places
through which they travel.
To read more stories, see more photos, gather further
information or to register for the experience of a lifetime,
please visit www.tourdafrique.com.