Afrika Toer Beukes Brothers

30/11/2021

Zürichsee or lake Zurich,
This is truly a place where one can liberate your mind. An endless boardwalk that takes you on a journey into the beautiful hidden corners of your mind. This is exactly where I had to end up, exactly what I needed. 🙂🇨🇭

08/11/2021

No man can create this. What an humbling and grateful moment. Yet another omen for my journey to Swiss. It's time to live again. 🙌🙌

09/10/2021

What a great privilege to be out in the open and unite with the most pure version of oneself. 👌
Capturing the spontaneity of gratitude to be alive with those who bring meaning to our lives. Praise to God. 💙

07/08/2021

So after a session and sending a project with my brother, Ruan and Annorien we went for another sesh just to get Ruan and my Bro on the rock. After some good climbing we stumbled upon a lonesome ranger by the name of Anker whom had been gallivanting by himself completely oblivious to the climbing. I took one look at him and could just see that climbing spirit within. I motivated him to try, at first he declined. Not surprisingly he returned later on completely psyched. I borrowed him my shoes and he cruised up a route I would not have anticipated someone climbing for a year or longer would even do. He did it on his second go with a lot of psyche from the three of us. This was his first climb and the start of I hope would be an eye opening journey for him. I salute you Anker. "Memories"

14/02/2018

Ani ...the Journey lies ahead..my dearest Daughter..the radiant one..with God's love reflected within you..you will spread a fragrance of love wherever you go..

Many people believe that the earth is flat, the rest think it's round. Does it really matter? Because ultimately there will always be the hills on the road, mountains with snow hats, valleys with lush forests, oceans with roaring waves, rivers with tons of water which you will encounter and to conqu...

19/11/2012

Trip down memory lane ...
It's almost unbelievable that Mozambique borders with Tanzania and SA... We entered Mz at Ponta de Namoto, crossing the Rivuma river by dug out canoes as there is no bridge. Northern Mozambique has one of the last remaining wild frontiers in Africa... We cycled through unspoilt bushveld forest and saw plenty elephant dung, but unfortunately no elephant itself. It was here that we had the worst road in all of our journey.... Our diet consisted of yet again bread, tea but had the bonus of Marie biscuits, condensed milk and tinned sardines... It kept us alive, but I won't say it was a nice time.. The more south we cycled the better and more developed it became, due to SA influence. At our halfway mark, at the Mighty Zambezi we had our first proper rest in Caia.. Here we slept on the floor in a hotel room which belonged to a couple of South African train drivers... We slept there for 4 nightstand were given food and great friendship by Johan Beukes. from there we went further south and were met by Oom Etiene Bruwer and two of his mates. They treated us with one night in a lodge...and later booked two nights and all meals included at a luxurious lodge in Vilanculos, we could hardly believe our good fortune. At that lodge in Vilanculos we received a free beach horseback safari. Then at the Inhambane area we met the Uys family from Pretoria and they invited us to stay at their beach house..here we went deep sea fishing with them, they fed us as if we've never even seen food at all.. We are happy to be able to say that they are our friends. Then from there we cycled further south to Quissico.. And here in this splendid town we met you Jaji ;).. And we are forever thankful of what she did for us as brothers and a family! From there it was plain sailing to Maputo and then to the Swaziland border..

18/11/2012

Phew... Finally have time to, after all the celebrations, to update you guys.. We'll keep it short and sweet. Yesterday at midday was one definately one of the greatest days of our lives. Our emotions were beyond words. We finally reached our final destination... CLARENS!! To all the people who joined us there we are extremely thankful, the welcome you guys gave us was so much more than we expected. Tears of joy, and to a certain extent sadness, flowed down our cheeks as we greeted family and friends.. Man it was special! Words can not thank everyone enough for your support throughout the journey, and your faith in us!

From here life continues, the journey(of life) continues... This trip lives forth in our memories and our stories for the future...

PS.. our trip down memory lane is interrupted, but not forgotten..Tomorrow we'll post Mozambique's news ;)

Much love! The Beukes Bros

15/11/2012

Trip down memory lane... Tanzania... For starters Tanzania was the country we spent the most off our time in. We crossed the border and probably one off the most majestic sightes we've seen up till that point welcomed us! First day out cycling we saw the highest point in Africa and the highest lone standing volcano/mountain in the world kilimanjaro while cycling.. It was only for a few minutes reason being it was the rainy season and just experiencing this site in the rainy season is already a blessing on its own!! Then we reached one off the most touristic towns in Africa, Arusha. We got news from our father that he had organised for us to go and see the gorillas for free but it was only a month later on our Callander that this opportunity presented itself. So we had to fill the empty spaces in our Callander. We did a tour by bus around lake Victoria and once again saw the mighty Nile... This time we did not only see it but stayed on its banks at a backpackers and eventually did river boarding at one off the best white water rafting venues on planet earth! It was extraordinary and a specially we want to give thanks to Nick Lawson for making it even more memorable.. To put the cherry on the cake we saw my father for the first time in more than three months in Rwanda, thanks to him we saw one off the most spectacular almost extinct animal on earth..Gorilla... We spent quality time with our dad and Ray who also helped us trimendously.. After this experience we headed back to Arusha and set off on our longest stretch off gravel road, more than five hundred kilometres.. We cycled two weeks on this road and our daily diet for most off the two weeks was bread and tea.. Not your most nutritious diet we would say! We got extremely sick but struck through at last and reached iringa.. After almost the toughest two weeks off our journey we got bad news from home and in a few hours we where on our way to dar es Salam and in one day we where in SA... After one month in SA and thanks to all the support from friends and family we flew back to dar es Salam in Tanzania following the coast to the border off Mozambique.. Our father told us before we started on this amazing journey, 'no matter what happens we have to finish', so honouring his name we continued... stay tuned:)

12/11/2012

Two days ago we left from Winterton. It wasn't easy...we were hosted by a lovely family the Goosens.. We stayed for two days even though our plan was only one night! They spoiled us and looked well after us! Thanks!

Tonight we are sleeping in a guest for free thanks to our friend Frikke and his father for organising everything swiftly. We appreciate it a lot!

Remember we arrive in Clarens on the 17th!! :)

12/11/2012

A sign of victory!!