Posts tagged bush

Angola in my Heart

If you have come this far after reading all the stories of Angola, you already know it and it will not be any mystery: Angola has reached my highest personal award, that of having won my heart.

AngolaNicolás Marino16 August 2015africa, angola, cycling, bicycle, touring, bush, cunene, adventure

Love for the Mato (bush)

After crossing 350 km of bush for a week, I finally arrived in Lubango very tired. But instead of staying in the largest city in the south of the country I decided to continue 15 km uphill to Humpata, a small village located on a plateau at 1920 m high.

AngolaNicolás Marino2 July 2015angola, mato, bush, cunene, lubango, benguela, cycling, bicycle, bicycle touring, adventure, sand, extreme, touring

The Tribal Heart of Angola

I had been cycling for almost two months of pure adrenaline, pedaling along the remotest roads of Namibia. I had been enjoying the beautiful solitude of a sublime scenery while dodging potentially dangerous encounters with wild beasts on a daily basis and coping with the scarcity of resources.

AngolaNicolás Marino18 June 2015africa, angola, mato, bush, cycling, bicycle, bicycle touring, traveling, adventure, tribes, tribal people, mundimba, himba, cunene, river, namibe

"you'll be barbacued"

After having spent Christmas in Livigstone with Father John, I continued the road with a stronger spirit. Cycling with a broken heart is not an easy job, but once I had crossed the legendary Zambezi River, in Kazungula, I could be sure that when I arrived at the zoo, there would be no more room for sorrow.

BotswanaNicolás Marino31 December 2014adventure, bicycle, botswana, bush, chobe national park, cycling, elephant highway, elephant, lions, touring