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Tom set off in June 2007 to cycle round the world. He soon realised the limits of such an abstract objective and decided to go wherever the winds of travel took him. He writes regularly on his Ride Earth blog and is currently heading for the Arab world on his bike.

Biking The Nubian Desert

Photo by Tom Allen

Photo by Tom Allen

I rode out of the tiny outpost of Wadi Halfa into the fading light and into the Sahara desert of northern Sudan. I had no map, no guidebook, no sun cream, no insect repellent.

A lone man stopped me on the outskirts of the village, his head and body robed and wrapped in loose white cotton which flapped in the brisk evening air. “There are wolves in the desert”, he warned me. “Wolves!!! Do not stop! Do not camp!”

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