Feature · 11 Jul 2020
Exploring mountain bike trails in Rwanda
Mountain bike enthusiast and Cicerone author Jan Bakker is on a quest to find mountain bike tracks in the east-central African country of Rwanda
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Feature · 2 Feb 2020
Hiking in the High Atlas mountains of Morocco
After years of being asked, Steve Barham finally went hiking in the High Atlas in Morocco, where he was warmly welcomed to its exotic and exciting landscapes.
Feature · 1 Dec 2019
Running the Freedom Trail in South Africa
The 2400km Freedom Trail in South Africa is not a running trail or even a hiking route, but could it be? Emma Timmis decided to find out. With only her brother on his bike for...
Feature · 24 Nov 2019
Mud, sweat and tears: Trekking in the Rwenzori Mountains
Jan Bakker takes on the challenge of trekking in Uganda’s spectacular and demanding Rwenzori Mountains – in some surprising kit.
Feature · 24 Apr 2019
Scrambling in the sunshine – spring in the Moroccan Anti-Atlas
Mick Borroff recounts his first trip to the Moroccan Anti-Atlas - a place of fantastic mountains, ridgeline scrambles, gorgeous gorges and painted rocks.
Feature · 5 Jan 2019
A traverse of the Moroccan north west Anti-Atlas from Ait Baha to the Ait Mansour or Teneglitche Gorge.
The Anti-Atlas mountain range lies just below the city of Agadir and to the south west of the High Atlas. Here you will find both adventure and tranquillity in the many 7000 ft...
Feature · 30 Nov 2018
Celebrating Fifty Years... Exploring Morocco's Anti-Atlas
Jonathan looks back on a particularly memorable trip to the mountains of Morocco with his son (and excellent rescuer) Joe Williams. This short story is taken from the...
Feature · 14 Nov 2018
Hiking in the cirques, l'île de La Réunion
When Réunion was suggested to Alex and Alice Stearn as a honeymoon destination, it didn’t take all that much googling to see that it was the sort of place the couple would...
Feature · 5 Jun 2017
James goes walking in the Drakensberg
Cicerone's Sales Rep James visits South Africa, decides that Table Mountain would not make for a decent piece of furniture, and discovers the brutality of Bugger Gully.
Feature · 5 Dec 2016
The land of a thousand hills: trekking and tracking in Rwanda
Mike Wells escapes the crowds in Africa’s most densely populated country tracking chimpanzees and trekking to the source of the Nile in Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park.
Feature · 8 May 2016
Climbing Jebel Toubkal, the highest mountain in Morocco
Morocco holds an immediate and enduring fascination, a blend of the exotic and the unfamiliar. Despite years of French and Spanish colonial rule it seems far removed from western...
Feature · 10 May 2015
Jebel el Kest: A stunning day in the Moroccan Anti-Atlas
The ascent of Jebel el Kest in Morocco’s Anti-Atlas is a stunning day in remote mountains – one of the very best hill days. Cicerone’s Publisher, Jonathan Williams, explored...
Feature · 14 Feb 2014
The High Atlas Mountains of Morocco
Just a short hop from Europe, Morocco's High Atlas mountains have stunning and wild trekking at altitudes up to 4000m. Hamish Brown tells us about wo routes in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco: the ascent of Jbel Tazekka (Tazzeka) 1980m, the high...