Rwanda

The bicycle is still perceived first and foremost as a means of transport for Rwanda's subsistence farmers. The main roads of Rwanda are in great shape, but it is not for nothing that the country is known as ‘the land of the thousand hills’. Riding through Rwanda’s mountainous forests and terraced fields is a relentless uphill-downhill journey, and many rural roads seem to have a mind of their own. Still unpaved, they reveal the warm red colour of the East African soil.