Our homes for the night, in pictures
Blog posted by bex on Jan 17th, 2010A selection of photographs of places we’ve stayed during our first ten months on the road.
A selection of photographs of places we’ve stayed during our first ten months on the road.
Gallery: Faces of the Bijagos Black and white portraits taken during boat journeys around the Bijagos islands off Guinea-Bissau – including Orango and Bubaque islands. Photographs by Huw Williams, November 2009.
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Gallery: The Gambia Photographs from our two weeks in The Gambia – cycling from Banjul in the west to Soma in central Gambia, including a stay at Tendaba Camp. Photographs by Huw Williams and Bex Sumner, October 2009.
Gallery: Senegal Landscapes, wildlife and portraits from our two months in Senegal – cycling from Rosso in the north to Ziguinchor in the south. Photographs by Huw Williams and Bex Sumner.
Gallery: Cycling across the Sahara A few of our favourite photographs from our ten weeks in the Sahara – cycling the Atlantic route from Guelmim in Morocco to Nouakchott in Mauritania. Photographs by Huw Williams and Bex Sumner.
Gallery: the Maghreb in monochrome A bike’s eye view of the westernmost part of the Maghreb (the Atlantic route through Morocco and Western Sahara), taken during a 24,000 kilometre cycling journey across Africa. Photographs by Huw Williams and Bex Sumner, April to July 2009.
Gallery: Southern Morocco (Essaouira to Sidi Ifni) Photographs from southern Morocco, taken in May and June 2009, during our cycling journey across Africa. (Photos from the far south of Morocco will go into a separate Sahara gallery.) Photographs by Huw and Bex.
Gallery: Northern Morocco (Tangier to Essaouira) Photographs from northern Morocco, from Tangier to Essaouira (April and May 2009). You can see our Southern Morocco gallery here . Photographs by Huw and Bex.
Gallery: Fantasia The traditional festival, Fantasia, which we stumbled across on the road between Rabat and Casablanca in northern Morocco. It’s a celebration of horsemanship (and, more recently, horsewomanship) in which the aim is for a team of horsemen to fire their muskets at the same time. Photographs by Huw, May 2009. You can also listen to our sound recording of the event, Fantasia (and the Power of Women).
Gallery: the slow boat to Africa Photographs from the 36-hour ferry journey that took us from Sète in France to Tangier in Morocco (April 2009). Photographs by Huw and Bex.