More than 150 cyclists on October 14 completed a gruelling 1,500-kilometre journey across Tanzania in memory of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, who died in 1999 and remains an iconic figure as the leader of the country's independence struggle.
The annual Twende Butiama Bicycle Tour, now in its fifth year, entails two weeks of hard pedalling through at least 10 regions from the port of Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean coast to Nyerere's Butiama home village on the Mara plains close to the border with Kenya, with few rest stops along the way.
