Question

what inspired anindya to cycle through africa

Answer 1

Answer:

For the last 12 years of my life, I have had a love affair with Africa. I have climbed and hiked its highest mountains (Kilimanjaro, Kenya, and the Rwenzoris), and biked from the Equator in Kenya to the Tropic of Capricorn in Namibia. I have retraced Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopahyay’s fictional character Shankar’s trails to the fabled Mountains of the Moon (Chander Pahar).

Answer 2

Answer:

For the last 12 years of my life, I have had a love affair with Africa. I have climbed and hiked its highest mountains (Kilimanjaro, Kenya, and the Rwenzoris), and biked from the Equator in Kenya to the Tropic of Capricorn in Namibia. I have retraced Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopahyay’s fictional character Shankar’s trails to the fabled Mountains of the Moon (Chander Pahar).

Each of these trips has kept on renewing my sense of curiosity and fed my longing to go back to Africa and absorb its intense human vibration and spirit a little more. Its daily struggle, resilience, music, colours, and the sights and the smells of its markets – everything fascinated me.

Explanation:

Since my school days, I have been deeply fascinated by the Sahara, and have often dreamt of crossing it with a caravan of camels. After some homework on the region and its geo-politics, I realised the only sensible and safe route to travel alone on a bicycle through the Sahara would be on the Morocco-Western Sahara-Mauritania route.