Posts in Ethiopia

ETHIOPIA, NEVER AGAIN!

I have thought of more than a dozen titles for this closing passage about Ethiopia. From all possible aberrations that came through my mind, the lightest and the one that I consider the original is: “Fuck you Ethiopia”.

EthiopiaNicolás Marino31 July 2014adventure, bicycle, cycling, ethiopia, omo, tigray

The Omo Circus

The departure from Addis was the starting point of our long scape from Ethiopia. We had already spent a month and a half in the middle of the country, and our

EthiopiaNicolás Marino28 July 2014adventure, arbore, bicycle, dassanech, desert, ethiopia, hamar, hamer, omo valley, omo, omorate, river, touring, tribal, tribe, turkana, valley

An Urban Monster Called Addis Abeba

I have said it more than once already and I like to say it again: the entrance to (and exits of) the great cities of the world by bicycle is not easy and it is rarely a simple experience. It is a

EthiopiaNicolás Marino20 July 2014addis abeba, adventure, africa, capital, city, cycling, ethiopia, merkato, mess, touring, urban

"Where Are You Go?"

After four days of resting in Wukro and recovering a bit of the lost faith in the Ethiopians thanks to father Ángel and his mission, we resumed the long journey to Addis Ababa.

EthiopiaNicolás Marino15 July 2014addis abeba, adventure, bicycle, churches, cycling, ethiopia, mekele, rock churches, tigray, touring, wukro

Angels of Ethiopia

From all I have written about Ethiopia so far, it should be already clear that the main problem we find again and again in this country is its people, particularly children, and teenagers.

EthiopiaNicolás Marino24 June 2014NGO, adventure, bicycle, children, church, ethiopia, ethiopian, hiv, mission, poverty, tigray, touring, wukro

Faith with Ethiopian Flavour

The Tigray region was the main reason, if not the only one, why our route across Ethiopia was almost double the distance that takes to cross the country along the shortest route. The one

EthiopiaNicolás Marino22 June 2014aba yohani, abuna yemata, adventure, bicycle, children, church, coffee ceremony, cycling, ethiopia, ethiopian, geralta, people, priest, rock churches, rock, tigray, touring

GIVE ME!

In Gondar, little less than 200 km after having entered Ethiopia, is where the route that I had planned would split from the one that virtually all cyclists going through the country use.

EthiopiaNicolás Marino18 June 2014adventure, axum, bicycle, cycling, ethiopia, ethiopians, gondar, kids, simien mountains, stone, touring

YOU!

The task of reading, researching and asking about a country that we are planning to visit always precedes the arrival to it and it is a task that takes an undetermined amount of time. We dream, we

EthiopiaNicolás Marino15 June 2014adventure, africa, bicycle, cycling, ethiopia, ethiopians, gondar, kids, metema, stones, touring