East Africa Motorcycle Tour: Enduro Through 4 Countries

Your East Africa motorcycle tour begins in Nairobi: after the overnight flight, our driver picks you up from the airport and takes you to the workshop, where the Kibo rental machine is waiting. In the evening you meet the group for the first briefing and dinner together, before an early night. The expedition starts the next morning.

After a hearty breakfast you leave Nairobi and ride around 300 kilometres north, crossing the equator line. This East Africa enduro expedition opens with a settling-in day for rider, motorcycle and traffic. After a coffee stop at a Kenyan trader's, easy offroad tracks lead to camp near the Ugandan border.

Today brings the first joint border crossing with the motorcycle convoy and the support vehicle. As an East Africa motorcycle expedition you cross into Uganda, welcome to the heart of Africa. Changing countries marks one of the most emotional moments of the whole trip and sets the tone for the stages ahead.

Over typically African roads you ride toward Jinja on Lake Victoria, where the Nile rises, only discovered by Western explorers in 1862. This East Africa motorcycle tour brings you by sunset into pulsing Kampala, where you experience the nightlife of Uganda's largest city.

On your enduro you ride along the shore of Lake Victoria, through East African highlands up to 1,500 metres. As an offroad Africa motorcycle tour, the route takes you past the Rwenzori mountains, bordering the Congo. After around 300 kilometres you reach Lake Mburo, where the evening winds down at the campfire.

Near the Congo border lie two parks with the last mountain gorillas, one of them the Bwindi rainforest, which you reach over winding roads and short offroad sections. On this Uganda motorcycle tour, the stage takes you to the foot of the Albertine Rift, where you camp for two nights. Bwindi National Park has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1994.

Today you have a choice: a quiet day at camp or a visit to Bwindi National Park, home to half the world's gorilla population. This guided East Africa motorcycle tour deliberately takes a break from riding here. With a bit of luck you encounter colobus monkeys, silver monkeys, chimpanzees and mountain gorillas in their natural habitat.

At the foot of the Virunga volcanoes you ride the long switchbacks to the small town of Kisoro, where you stock up on supplies and coffee before heading to the Rwandan border. Depending on the wait at the border, this offroad East Africa enduro trip takes you either along the main road to Gisenyi on the lake or through the hinterland with views of Lake Kivu.

You leave the rainforest behind and ride over beautiful mountain passes into the capital Kigali, home to the legendary Hotel Rwanda. This Africa motorcycle adventure is accompanied by the country's history. The film about the 1994 genocide is based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, who saved over 1,200 people.

After breakfast you visit the nearby Kigali Genocide Memorial, where around 250,000 Tutsi are buried. It is a harrowing chapter of this trip. Afterwards your Tanzania motorcycle tour rolls over well-built roads and through border control into the country, where you master the last kilometres on a bumpy track to the campfire camp.

Along the Burundian border you head east on dusty tracks. In the rain this quickly turns into the muddy challenge every enduro rider knows. This Africa enduro motorcycle expedition ends in the afternoon at your camp on Lake Victoria, where a raft trip and fishing are on the programme before fresh fish waits at the fire.

Along the eastern shore of Lake Victoria you cover kilometre after kilometre on a quiet road heading north, until you reach the Kenyan border. This Africa motorcycle adventure skirts the Serengeti, which stretches to the Ngorongoro and into the Rift Valley, before you reach camp at sunset.

At sunrise the engines start, several hours of offroad riding lie ahead until you leave the Kenyan border behind. At the edge of the Masai Mara you treat yourself to a short stop, then this Africa enduro motorcycle expedition continues at full throttle toward Lake Naivasha.

Early in the morning you ride the last kilometres over small country roads to Nairobi, where the motorcycles return to the workshop for inspection before the airport transfer. Anyone with time left can close out this East Africa motorcycle tour with a barbecue and one last evening at the campfire.