The Tour of Karmoja 2023 was the first time I was doing a tour like this. I would say it’s not for the faint-hearted, it’s physically hard. Riding 7 days in a row was new to me and the tour helped me push my limits, and I could find out more about my own capacities.
I discovered the Karamojong’s (Uganda) culture more in detail, as well as the Turkana (Kenya) and other tribes like the Ik and Pokot. The different visits, dances arranged and encounters made during the re were just fabulous. I was flabbergasted to ride in such remote, ever-changing beautiful landscapes and places.
Alakara Noi to the crew that made this once-in-a-lifetime experience possible!
The proud Karimojong people in Uganda’s northeastern corner live for their cattle and women. Many decades of conflict made Karamoja unthinkable as a tour and travel destination. Today, the doors open to a fascinating culture and a folk refusing to give up their traditions.
Dutch cycling couple Paul Zuidgeest and Kathleen Verhelst are cycling through Africa and passed through Karamoja land with Kara-Tunga that took them to Kidepo Valley National Park.
The Tour of Karamoja 2022 TOK22 combined some of the most diverse and remote wilderness in East Africa if not all of Africa. The event entailed some of the most dramatic landscapes, amazing wildlife and some of the richest, most authentic cultural experiences all wrapped up in the most challenging, inspiring and rewarding cycling experience …
Participants of Tour of Karamoja 2021 and the Ride4GirlChild fundraiser collected $10,515 for educating girls in Uganda’s Karamoja region. The vocational training will take place at the only vocational girls school in the Karamoja region: Matany Girls Vocational School located in Matany district.
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Testimonial: It helped me push my limits
The Tour of Karmoja 2023 was the first time I was doing a tour like this. I would say it’s not for the faint-hearted, it’s physically hard. Riding 7 days in a row was new to me and the tour helped me push my limits, and I could find out more about my own capacities.
I discovered the Karamojong’s (Uganda) culture more in detail, as well as the Turkana (Kenya) and other tribes like the Ik and Pokot. The different visits, dances arranged and encounters made during the re were just fabulous. I was flabbergasted to ride in such remote, ever-changing beautiful landscapes and places.
Alakara Noi to the crew that made this once-in-a-lifetime experience possible!
From: Clement Bilon
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