The Tour du Burundi, a 7 day 400 mile bicycle ride, takes us around the country in a counter-clockwise direction. Use this map and the route description below to follow our daily progress. Also see the elevation profile flowing the final day’s description to gain a sense of the climbing we will do.
Simon provided this description which I’ve included verbatim to give you a sense of his quirky personality, which I truly enjoy.
Sunday 19th May – Bujumbura (capital) to Nyanza Lac, 75 miles, far South of country, very hot day as in the plain at low altitude, gorgeous road along the lake, flat all the way.
Monday 20th May – Nyanza Lac to Rutana, 57 miles, South to Central South, vey hilly, will be knackered after the first day, and this will be another challenging one.
Tuesday 21st May – Rutana to Gitega, 42 miles, South Central to Central, short day, but we end up at our Homes of Hope (YFC) orphanage, so will have time to hang out with the kids, and also see the newly opened Gitega International Academy (first English-speaking boarding school in the country) as well as the orphanage school and medical clinic. i.e. we’ll actually have time to engage with people, have fun, will have very sore butts by then, not a hard day.
Wednesday 22nd May – Gitega to Muyinga, 57 miles, center of country to North East.
Thursday 23rd May – Muyinga to Kayanza, 65 miles, North East to Central North .
Friday 24th May – Kayanza to Cibitoke, 51 miles, Central North to North West, from mountains (all of the above for some of the days) to the hot sweaty plain again.
Saturday 25th May – Cibitoke to Bujumbura, 38 miles, of which we’d get out for 9 miles of them which are too bad for our bikes, would load them up onto the bus, back to the capital, not a long day, for celebratory naked riding of hippos in the lake by night.
The chart was created by one of the British riders so allow me to translate: 1 meter = 3.28 feet and 1 kilometer = .62 miles.
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