What happened to the French Anon who was doing Africa on a motorcycle?

>>1243672
Belgianon, if you're seeing this have you heard anything from him?

>>1243672
he died, anon.

>>1243672
He is being held hostage in some jungle

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>>1243672
>what happened to him?
he died

>>1243674
Not recently. But my whatsapp messages came through, so that means he probably left Mali as his whatsapp didn't work there. I suspect he's in Burkina Faso to obtain a Nigerian visa, or if he has already gotten it there, Togo or Benin.

>>1243672
he got run over by a truck.

rip sweat motorcycle prince

He'll be back someday with some new adventures to tell, I wouldn't worry too much. He's not some clueless tourist.

I hope this thread doesnt die like the last one, theres more activity than in the past so dont wait more than 48h to bump

>>1243850
Belgian confirming he is dead

>>1244922
he's dead

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>>1244931
no

>>1243672
He was murdered and raped repeatedly by bushmen to celebrate their giraffe barbecue

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>>1245913
He got killed by marauding Tuareg barbarains.

anybody got some of his stories?
That sounds like a neat undertaking.

his first thread through central Asia and afghanistan has been archived, the start of his african motorcycle trip as well, I believe

>>1246050
Can someone post the archive?

>>1246191
>>1246050

Here is his Europe to Afghanistan thread:

https://archived.moe/trv/thread/1053050/#1053050

Someone else can post his current African trip if it got archived.

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>>1246338
Second Africa Thread.

http://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/1132461/

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I for one won't forget our real traveller anon. May he rest in peace.

where is he
:(
seriously

>>1248156

should we start a gofindme to fund a PI to find him?

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any news?

Pray for him

Anyway if I become a hobo eating sacred shinto deer in Japan and running away from authorities will you remember me too ?

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>>1249226
Only if you post about it on 4chan.

No news from OP, other than that he was online on whatsapp a couple days ago.

Damn, hope he's doing well

>>1249277
maybe someone stole his phone?
I hope not

Curious bump

Damn my American friend is doing the same thing, been out there since August. I wonder if they met...

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>>1243672
All I remember is that he found the real-life Alberto Barbosa

We need a name for african anon. God I hope he is still alive

French anon here!

I died, and I am funposting on /trv/ from BEYOND THE GRAVE

>>1249939
Afronon

>>1249999
Just don't be a fag and get the IP address banned before we get there

>>1249939
Le sieur Pierre

i miss him too op... I miss him too....

are baguettes popular in africa? or in former french colonies?

Didn't he reach one of the better beaches and was chilling until further notice? Nigeria or Kenya or something.

>>1251632
>Kenya

lmao no

>>1251504
no

>>1250566
L'ami Pierrot sur sa moto

>>1251504
>>1252105
https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/dakars-unhealthy-obsession-with-french-baguette

french anon where are thou???

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Killed by african warlords? I hope the poor sucker wasn't white.

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goodnight sweet prince

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>ebola outbreak in the Congo
Stay safe French anon

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>>1251632
He chilled in Grand Bassam in Ivory Coast (pic related) for five months to get his new bike equipped. Hit the road, went to Mali, which I presume he has now left. No clue where he is now, he hasn't responded to my messages.

>>1251504
Quite so. Even in the Anglophone countries they're widely available.

>>1255282
so it's possible his mechanic whacked him over with a crowbar and took his bike? when was the last time you heard anything from him?

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>>1255888
Recently got a message back from him so OP is not kill. He's just been cruising around in countries where 4chan is ip banned.

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>>1256694
Long live Afroanon!

>>1256694
Our hero isn't dead! Huzzah!

>>1256694
Do Africans even know what an IP is ? How can they IP ban websites but not have running water and reliable electricity? Bless afranon, I hope he is looking forward to sharing his stories with us

>>1256694
tell him about tor and vpn next time you are in contact

>>1256702

Keep your /pol/ tier ignorance over at /pol/ please. Africans mobile internet technology is pretty advanced. For a while they had better wifi networks than Europe

bumping this

>>1256717
So advanced Ethiopia just shut down the entire countries internet so year 10 students couldn't cheat for their exams.

>>1257644
>>1256702
Most Africans have running water
Most Africans have reliable electricity
The West only recently surpassed Africa in terms of mobile phones per capita.
There are 54 countries in Africa and not one of them conforms to the ideas in your head. Your ideas belong to the 1980s

>>1257658

more like early 2000s. theyve seen most progress in the past 15 years mostly

>>1257658
Good luck convincing people here, it's 4chan after all.

The use of the term "africans" followed by a generality is a sufficient proof of ignorance. Africa is insanely big and diversified.

>>1259022
>Yes. Because 99.99% are legacy low-cost non-smartphones dumped there by the west.
Having been there, I can say that in big cities, smartphones (often Chinese) are common to very common, and it's nothing special to own several for cheap access to other networks. Outside cities, regular mobile phones are more prevalent, but I'd be downright amazed if these were mostly imported from the West. Most likely dumped by other Africans.

>Africa (political state) and Africans (as hosts) are shit.
Agreed on African countries often leaving much to be desired on state level, but Africans themselves are the best hosts I've come across. Travelled through entire countries without paying for accomodation, for example.

I really think we should really just ignore /pol/tards appearing in other boards who aren't /pol/. They just dumb down any discussion previously held in any thread.

>>1257658
>Running water
>Drinkable water

yeah no, you can drink from the taps if you want though anon, nobody will stop you.

>Reliable electricity
Isn't it common place in africa for countries to sell power to each other and therefore leaving parts of their country in black outs ? Do we have the same definition of reliable ?

>The west only recently surpassed Africa in terms of mobile phones per capita

It's almost like when a country and it's technology is so far behind they can make some sort of technological leap into the modern day. Someone should make some sort of scientific theory about this.

Of the 54 countries in Africa, you have not been to all, you have not seen everything in those 54 countries. The Africa you see on tv is still and by far, the current state of Africa. You are not fooling anybody by cherrypicking statistics like the mobile phones, or cleverly wording your statements, like the running water thing. Africa is and will be a shit hole for a very long time. All the infrastructure that is being put in place is by Chinese loans that these countries can never pay back, so you can imagine how many natural resources China will have claim to in a few years, further setting back the African countries.

>>1256702
there is are a lot of public networks around funded by the UN or charity organizations or by bill gates or whatever

those governments also ban a lot on those networks;.. like sites that contain gore and porno (thus also 4chan)

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>>1243964
>he got run over by a truck.
So, you mean, he fights dragons and gets a harem of qt anime girls in a fantasy universe now? Fucking rad!

>>1249999
the quads of return damn

>>1259056
Great post! How many countries in Africa have you seen? Surely you must have made your way around a great deal of the continent to speak like this, no?

Having recently come back from serving under MINUSMA in Mali I can confirm that there is one western motorcyclist who is currently held hostage. Can't remember exactly where it is though, since it was far outside our area of operations.

Even as a solo traveler and motorcyclist myself, I always wonder about why some people insist on traveling to countries currently in a state of war. If that is what attracts you, you should either get a job for an NGO or go as a soldier, in which case you would quickly realize why you shouldn't travel there alone and unarmed.

For example, I would love to travel Mali more freely myself, but would not do it right now unless I could afford a few competent armed bodyguards, even in the Bamako area.

Some people are weird.

>>1260356
Was it in Mali and do you know more details?

Not because I want to know if it's the French guy, I'm just interested.

Also, feel free to share experiences/photos from your time in Mali, it's always a pleasure reading about less common destinations

>>1260356
How does one get a job for an NGO?

>>1260356
I heard he was necklaced.

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>>1260356
Nice LARP. Seriously though, Belgianon, what's happening?

>>1260352
What is it with people and being so god damn defensive towards niggers? Seriously, you talk shit about Asians and maybe only get minimal shit back, but dare to talk shit about nogs and the white (lol) knights come out of the woodworks

>>1261908
We're just sick of /pol/

>>1261932
It's a shame cuz /pol/ was a cool place when it started 5 years ago.

>>1262108
maybe for people who were too lazy to actually get into politics

>>1262108
>/pol/ was a cool place
For about five minutes, then it was overrun with stormfags. Which was fine I guess because they fucked off from some of the other boards. But then they bred and festered and spilled out and now whenever we see something that sounds or looks like /pol/, we get a bit defensive because who the fuck needs that poison in a thread?

>>1262253
/pol/ was always meant to be shitty
/n/ was a nice place once but it became the testing ground for political and racial divide that /pol/ is now and moot deleted it. But it was already terrible so /pol/ was created to atleast contain them. Now that those fuckers are spreading I wouldn't be surprised if its eventually deleted and permabans start getting handed out to people

>>1257658>>1260352

Let up faggot africa is not an easy place to live in yet do not spread disinformation.
>water
Northern Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa even though in one continent, have made different levels of progress towards the Millennium Development Goal on water. North Africa has 92% coverage and is on track to meet its 94% target before 2015. However, Sub-Saharan Africa experiences a contrasting case with 40% of the 783 million people without access to an improved source of drinking water from the region. Sub-Saharan Africa is off track from meeting the MDG on water with just 61% water coverage and with the current pace cannot reach the 75% target set for the region."

http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/africa.shtml

>electricity

An estimated 1.2 billion people – 16% of the global population – did not have access to electricity according to WEO-2016, 15 million fewer than reported in the previous year. Many more suffer from supply that is of poor quality. More than 95% of those living without electricity are in countries in sub-Saharan Africa and developing Asia, and they are predominantly in rural areas (around 80% of the world total). While still far from complete, progress in providing electrification in urban areas has outpaced that in rural areas two to one since 2000.

Landline Penetration Near Zero

While mobile networks in sub-Saharan Africa have spread rapidly, landline penetration in the seven countries surveyed is close to zero. A median of only 2% across these nations say they have a working landline telephone in their house, with a median of 97% saying they do not have one. There is little variation across the countries on landline ownership. Landlines are simply rare on the continent.
http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/04/15/cell-phones-in-africa-communication-lifeline/

The point is that africa is not a modernized continent in general, particularly sub-saharan africa, which is also the subject of this thread.

>>1262259
didn't provide a source for electricity

http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/resources/energydevelopment/energyaccessdatabase/

belgianon please come back

save this thread

>>1262257
>/n/ was a nice place once but it became the testing ground for political and racial divide
I think you mean /news/? Or maybe /int/?

/n/ is Transport and is really trains and bikes with a few boat, bus and plane threads from time to time. Some urban planning too.

>>1263485
He's talking about old /n/, that one was axed in 2007 or 8. Then moot made /new/ since nobody had told him the definition of insanity and he axed it again for the same reason. Then he made /pol/ and just left it to fester this time around.

>>1263493
I didn't realise that /n/ wasn't from the beginning. The lore of the board says it was built as a containment board for trainspotters and suggests that it was from the very beginning.

>>1264046
/n/ was a lot of boards. It was trains at first for a short while, then it was animals, then it was news, then back to transportation again.

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Bump,

Hope OP can return

The archived threads should be added to the /trv/ sticky

>>1264523

belgianon tell frenchanon to get a cheap vpn if 4chan's blocked for him

>>1259170
Fucking dictators, oppressing the black man.

>>1264523
that woman on the right hasn't experienced famine in decades

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>>1249999
>pft, yeah right
>oh shit, those quads

I miss motorcycle anon! We should make a search thread for the sole purpose of finding him and or getting his attention

Africa happened
Niggers in SA are literally hunting down whites and murdering them.
Frenchanon chose the wrong time to go

>>1265322
this is a good idea. are any anons going to west africa soon?

>>1265337

maybe, but that'd be in august at the earliest

bumpin this pumkin

>>1243672
Damn frenchanon mustve caught a serious case of jungle fever

>>1266351
More likely he caught a serious case of machetes.

>>1243672
Probably caught a plane to somewhere else cuz everything looks just like Paris

let's keep bumping this thread until /ourguy/ returns

how many threads did he have?
one afghanistan and two africa right?
please return frnechbro :3

>>1243672
bump for closure

el bumpo

>>1243672
Praying for anon. We miss you, you crazy bastard.

Anon I pray for you daily

bumpedity bump

Bamp

he died, stop bumping

lel

>>1269925
never

>>1269925
bump

>Ransom gets broadcast by Mali warlords
>/trv have to gofundme ransom demand

What a time to be alive.

>>1270999
i would fund this

>>1270999
I will donate to save him

>>1271268
>>1271293
Think about the consequences, though. There's a reason why insurance won't pay ransom demands and governments always deny that they pay ransoms. As soon as it becomes known that /trv/ is the kind of place where anons pay anons ransom.... we'll all be targets.

>>1271300
>implying abdul the taureg warlord knows about a kyrgyzstani sheep herding bulletin board

>>1271468
>implying taureg warlords don't have NEET sons connecting to bulletin boards over reporters' stolen satellite phones' connections

>>1249226
I remember you Faggot Finn, and I don't come here often.

>>1271512
>implying they're allowed access to 4chin on their facebook sponsored internet

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anon pls come back

>>1273505
He will come back one day anon, we haven't lost him yet

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>>1273505
>>1273551
You won't see him on 4chan anytime soon, but he's alive and well, in the Central African Republic as far as I know.

>>1273760
That's even more worrying than not knowing where he is

>>1273761
Chill, he's got lots of contacts there. If I know him somewhat, he's relaxing and having a good time until things calm down and he can move on.

Being French military i really hate two digit IQ retards like him. I hope none of our guys get killed trying to save that fucker if he gets abducted by jihadis.

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>>1271512
Aren't the Taureg matrilineal? Could be a sexy Taureg femanon NEET

>>1273793
Well, this isn't the average dumb tourist, the guy's pretty experienced. Still, CAR is in the top ten shitty places of Africa and I hope his friends are really good friends.

>>1273793
Fun fact: OP is a former collegue of yours.

>>1273807
French expats he knows well.

>>1273777
>>1273760

That's great to hear. We'll keep bumping this thread or start a new one if this one dies.

I'd be interested how traveling through such a country works, even with contacts. Does couchsurfing even work there?

>>1273800
I don't think there's such thing as a NEET in their culture tbqh

b.

>>1273860
Why would French expats move to car? There's plenty of other decent countries in Africa for French speakers to relocate to

tothetop

bumperino

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>>1274759
Who knows? One of them's a journalist, so there's that.

OP is still in Bangui, waiting for some spare parts to come over from France before heading south into the DRC, thereby bypassing the eastern CAR, which is a warzone.

>>1276612

How long does it take for a shipment to arrive to CAR?

>>1276612
please send OP our regards, and please ask him to post updates here once in a while. there are a lot of us that check every day in hopes that he will come back.

bumpo

+1

bumping with a question
i want to go backpacking somewhere in Africa but I dont really know where and what I would do?

I thought about Mozambique but there are only 3 hostels on hostelworld. Let's say I arrive at Airport and than what? I dont mind harsh enviroment but I dunno where to start

Ive been only twice to africa, once backpacking in marocco and once all inclusive vacation with my parents years ago

I kinda want to expirience real africa but I dunno where to start

>>1280486
you should put this in QTDDTOT

>>1257658
Umm yeah I helped set up some of the first cellular base systems in Africa back in the day (yay for MOTCID!), they don't have landlines or running water there. They're not playing Flappy Bird on their iPhone 7's, they're using barely-functioning Nokias that were shipped to them by their illegal-alien relatives in the U.S.

>>1258396
Africans are mostly spearchucking niggers.

>>1280486
Well, Cape Town is Africa light. Also, why so deadset on hostels? There are hotels and airbnbs you know. I'd go to Malawi, Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal, Ethiopia or Gambia if I wanted something safe.

>>1281494
because I would go alone and I dont know what I do there all the time.
I mean when I've been to Hostels it was easy to meet other people and find shit to da

>>1281663
Africa is not really a place to meet new people for the most part.

I would recommend a group tour or something similair. If you are hoping to find a european-hostel style thing in africa, you are out of luck for the most part, unless you go to morocco or parts of zuid afrika.

Africa is next level, a very rewarding place to visit but not in the same was as europe or australia.

Maybe look into "shoestring" travel, they ate not that expensive and you get a small group of like minded people. I used them to visit ethiopia, and i could not have done it without them. You will feel alone without likeminded people.

>>1281675
this shoestring thing looks interesting
i guess the flight is not included in the price? couldnt find any info on this

>>1281690
For me the flights were included, bur i went with the dutch company. I don't know if the same goes for your local company, but i would say 99% yes.

I went to ethiopia last year for two weeks and it only cost me 899 euros. And my flight was included. I will never forget the experience, a mix of medival castles, nature, orthodox churches and the vibrant colours in the markets.

Google around abit, i am sure there are other cheap tours, i don't want to shill shoestring too hard.

>>1281695
>>1281675
So it's something like contiki?

Are you an American?

I think most other people aren't so extroverted and don't mind traveling alone.

>>1281747
I am french, living in amsterdam

Well africa is something that is hard to travel alone. The locals will not really understand you l, even if you speak the same language. It feels better to havr atleast one westerner near you

Hell, even the great explorers of the 1870's took some westerners with them

gotta bump this!

Looks like the frenchman lost interest in telling his story.

>>1273860
i wish french bro posted cool pics from his military years

>>1284237
i wish french bro posted pics.

>>1284263
i wish french bro posted

>>1273898
There'd have to be education employment or training in the first place

OP still stuck in Bangui. Mechanic broke his bike. Yup.

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>>1284397

I bet the mechanic stole some parts and replaced them with broken ones

>>1284397
would op please post some pics? or at least send them to you to post

Thank god, OP is alive

<3

>>1284397

I somehow doubt he is in the CAR.

The war in the CAR is really heating up, Aid workers and westerners are now being targeted because the Anti-Balaka think that the French peacekeepers and Aid workers are supporting the Muslims. Only the other day red cross volunteers were killed by Machete in the central provinces & all remaining western workers on the gold mines were pulled out 3 months ago.

The only way you would be able to make it into Bangui would be by barge up the river, from there I doubt you could make it very far outside without escorts.

Would be nice to know where OP is though, I thought he had ran out of time and had flown back to France to continue the journey at a later date?

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>>1285594
He's been in Bangui for a while - at least a month, probably longer. His plan was to join a convoy heading for Bangui at the Cameroon - CAR border. Plenty of those for safety reasons, and it looks like he did just that. His current plan is to
>wait for parts to arrive from France by air
>cut straight into the DRC given that Bangui is right at the border, and the easter CAR route is a warzone.

Pic is him with a book describing the previous rebellion, you may recognize the watch.

So glad French bro is alive, does he know he is /trv/ famous

>>1259052
eww just go back to r3ddit already this entire site is /pol/ kiddo

>>1261908

>>1261932
kike shills like this are paid to defend negros, are you new to the web?

>wahhhhh poooool wahhhhhhh
literally kikes

>>1285677
save this thread belgianon. post more pics.

dont let this thread die

How long does it take for a package with motorcycle parts to arrive from France to CAR?

>>1287686
how long does it take for french anon to find his way to an internet cafe and update us?

plus one

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Pray for frenchbro

>>1291973
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>>1291973

>>1291973
>>1291973
Which way is Mecca.

>>1280486
try Seychelles. it's a small island east of kenya and you could backpack through the whole island easily with no safety concerns. plenty of beach resorts too

>>1291973
F

Frenchanon come back i loooooove you