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Asmara highland road race

Also known as Tour of Eritrea

Asmara highland road race: photograph by Carlos Oliveira Reis
Photo: Carlos Oliveira Reis, CC0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Pace a team of cyclists up long highland switchbacks, choosing when to attack, draft or save energy to win the stage.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Eritrea.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Age of Contact and Craft (about 1500 to 1800), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Africa: Nile and the Horn.

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