Your fee covers:

• 6 nights of accommodation (a mix of camping, glamping and 2-3* hotels)

• All national park and conservancy fees (worth up to 200USD per day)

• Bike rental and repairs

• Cycling support (guides and mechanics)

• Transport within Kenya (including airport pick-up)

• 3 x daily meals, snacks and drinking water

• 1 x cycling jersey

Your fees do NOT cover: your flights to and from Kenya, your entry visa, personal travel insurance, additional soft or alcoholic drinks, additional travel or hotel accommodation beyond the travel package dates.

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You need to pay a £100 deposit to secure each place you are booking - which we will ask for up front. If you need some time to raise this, please speak to our team.

The remainder of your fees can be paid in instalments, or in one lump sum. This must be confirmed with a member of the team. The balance is due 130 days before the event’s start date.

We ask that all adult participants commit to fundraising £1,800 for Ride Africa Next Generation. Those under 18 must fundraise £1,000.

All funds raised go directly to supporting Child.org’s life-saving work in maternal and child health in Kenya.

It is our job to guide and support you to reach this target and we’ll be on hand to support you all the way.

If you are nervous about fundraising, please give us a call or get in touch. We are professional fundraisers so we’ll give you all the tips and tricks we have!

Alternatively, you can chose to donate the target. Get in touch with the team if you’d like this option.

Our route is planned with consultation from local cycle guides, National Parks authorities and our team. We’ll update our website and the riders who have signed up with the planned stages and approximate distances (and end stops!) once they are finalised.

We will have a fairly detailed outline of the route which we will send to you in the weeks before your ride is due. However, please bear in mind that rainfall, animal migrations and poaching can affect our plans and so we may need to mitigate, shorten or change some of the route.

We’ll send you a full, updated kit list a month before you’re due to depart. In the meantime, do look at the training kit advised on our training page - it details the equiptment you’ll need to be using on your training.

Your flight must arrive into Nairobi before 8am on Sunday 24 October 2027.

Your return flight must leave Nairobi after 8pm on Saturday 30 October 2027.

Please wait to hear from Child.org team before you book your flights.

Travel health

We can’t give you medical advice on which immunisations you need - you need to book an appointment with your GP to discuss.

Your GP will recommend vaccinations as appropriate. You will also be recommended anti-malarials, which you should take to protect you from malaria during your trip.

You will be staying in great hotels and drinking only bottled water. Be sure to inform your GP or travel nurse of this as the vaccinations may vary, based on the type of travelling you’re doing!

Insurance

It is a condition of your participation in Ride Africa that you book appropriate travel insurance for all participants within your party.

Be sure that the insurance you get covers an endurance ride as regular travel insurance doesn’t always cover you. If you have travel insurance, be sure to call them up and talk them through the event, they may need to change your cover or you may have to go through another provider.

To travel to Kenya, you must complete an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) 72 hours prior to their travel. You can apply for this here.