Posts tagged china

A Little Bit of Fame

A few months ago I was interviewed by Outdoor Exploration 户外探险 magazine, one of the biggest adventure magazines in China.

MiscNicolás Marino22 April 2014asia, bicycle, china, chinese, cycling, interview, magazine, nicolas marino, outdoor exploration, touring, traveling, trip

A few videos of the year

MiscNicolás Marino23 February 2014adventure, asia, bicycle, china, cycling, indonesia, japan, mongolia, philippines, south korea, touring, video

Dharma. My New Bicycle.

We crossed into China with a voracious appetite. It was not the hunger as much as the necessity we had to eat well, to eat delicious food and nothing better than being back in China to accomplish this.

ChinaNicolás Marino10 October 2013adventure, beijing, bicycle, boskey, china, cycling, dirt, factory, hebei, industry, overlander, pollution, traffic, trucks

Entering the Tale

There are moments in life that are slow in coming. Moments, that perhaps, one has been looking forward and even yearning for days, months or years.

MongoliaNicolás Marino7 August 2013adventure, alcoholism, beijing, bicycle, china, cycling, drunk, mongolia, steppe, touring, train, traveling, ulaanbaatar, ulan bator

Trapped Between Whores and Casinos

I had never ever been interested in going to Macau but this time there was, at least apparently, no other choice. Back in 2007 I had experienced the nightmare that

MacauNicolás Marino3 January 2013adventure, bicycle, brothel, china, cycling, macau, prostitution

From Relief to Boredom

I won't deny the fact that despite its great beauty, I felt relief when leaving Guizhou贵州. Afterall, it had been a very demanding physical beginning and that's the very reason why the body suffered

ChinaNicolás Marino19 December 2012adventure, bicycle, china, cycling, photoraphy, rural, traveling

Up and Down, Up and Down, Up Up Up..... the Endless and Exhausting Ride across Guizhou 贵州.

It was the mix between an enormous enthusiasm, the excitement of being riding around the world again, the strong need to get to see the “new” stuff, the

ChinaNicolás Marino12 December 2012adventure, bicycle, china, cycling, ethnic minority, guizhou, photoraphy, rice, rural, terrace, traveling, trip

Sichuan 四川. Leaving Home.

No matter how big the enthusiasm within is and no matter how many times one has gone through this process, leaving the place where you settled down for a fair amount of time, is never easy.

ChinaNicolás Marino5 December 2012adventure, bicycle, chengdu, china, cycling, rural, sichuan, traveling, trip

Resign and Departure

Well, for the first time probably I will try to keep a steady flow of posts written in English. Some might be direct translations that I do from my original posts in Spanish, as well as posts written in English from scratch.

ChinaNicolás Marino30 November 2012chengdu, china, sichuan, cycling, adventure, bicycle, bicycle touring, preliminary