Tour d'Afrique, the 12, 000-kilometer (7,500-mile) bicycle expedition/race from Cairo to Cape Town, began on January 13, 2007.

Now in its fifth year, it travels through 10 African countries taking approximately 120 days, of which 96 are cycling days, averaging 124 kilometre each day.

A group of 45 men and women from all over the world are part of the journey. Amongst them is, Douglas Sidialo of Kenya, an avid blind cyclist, a mountain climber and a motivation speaker.

He is the first blind African to reach the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro-Uhuru Peak in September 2005. Sidialo is adding more records to his name. He has become the first Kenyan as well as the first blind athlete to attempt the world's most grueling cycling event - Tour d’ africa.

Sidialo lost his eyesight during the 1998 U.S. embassy terrorist bombing in Nairobi but has overcome this by becoming an inspiration to many around the world. "My positive attitude and spirit has inspired me to accept blindness as a challenge, and I am working with other people affected by tragedies to seek new ways of coping”.Douglas and his pilot, Joash Aswani, have been sponsored by the Rush Miller Foundation in America, an organisation which raises funds to provide tandem bicycles for blind people.