Posts tagged extreme

The Morning After

5.45 A.M. I open my eyes. I slept 2 hours and I suffered the rest. The thin walls of my tent reveal the first light of day. The jungle is quiet, the elephants are gone and many insects have already gone to sleep ceding the singing to the daytime birds that are already beginning to wake up.

CongoNicolás Marino18 October 2015africa, central african republic, mud, jungle, rainforest, border crossing, trapped, adventure, extreme, bomassa, tropics

Trapped in the Night

It was not the great inconvenience of losing more than an hour worth of light the worst thing that the unfortunate episode that I had just gone through left me, but the horrible bitter taste that remained inside me.

CongoNicolás Marino17 October 2015congo, africa, mud, jungle, adventure, extreme, bicycle, bicycle touring, bomassa, sangha, central african republic, central africa, river, rainforest

-Ça c'est la Guerre!- (That is war) Part II

I arrived at Olloba with the intention of resting but the bicycle was shattered, and so was I. After a few hours of lying on my back, now on a mattress without mice, I could barely feel my muscles.

CongoNicolás Marino12 October 2015congo, africa, jungle, adventure, rainforest, extreme, cycling, touring, bicycle touring, mud

-Ça c'est la Guerre!- (That is War) Part I

It took me two hard weeks through the jungle to make the 550 km to the last village in northeastern Gabon and there, in Mekambo, the easiest part was over.

Gabon, CongoNicolás Marino10 October 2015africa, gabon, jungle, extreme, rainforest, equatorial, border crossing, mud, adventure

Before the War

No matter how hard one tries to prepare for unforeseen events, it is never possible to prevent everything. It had been almost 10,000 km since I had left Cape Town and since then I had been carrying 10 kg extra in spare parts.

GabonNicolás Marino2 October 2015africa, gabon, central africa, jungle, rainforest, equatorial, humidity, extreme, makokou, mekambo

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 Days After.....

We had had enough energies to ride across the jungle, but it was only a few days after the odyssey was over that we truly realized the huge amount of energy we

IndonesiaNicolás Marino8 May 2013adventure, beach, bicycle, cycling, extreme, indonesia, mamuju, sulawesi, traveling, trip, west sulawesi

Going Extreme!

Two of the toughest bike travelers I know, Salva and Adam, both good friends of mine, met in Sulawesi in 2009 and together they embarked on a journey that both

IndonesiaNicolás Marino30 April 2013adventure, bada valley, bicycle, extreme, gimpu, gintu, jungle, lake poso, palu, sulawesi, traveling, trip, tropical, tropics

Never Ending Green

During my years of traveling both as a backpacker and traveler by bicycle, I have been more than once dazzled by what the world has to offer. Its landscapes, its ecosystems and its phenomena are some of the reasons that always make me want to keep going out, to see more, to learn more, to feel more.

IndonesiaNicolás Marino11 April 2013adventure, bicycle, borneo, bugs, coal mining, corruption, cycling, deforestation, extreme, indonesia, jungle, kalimantan, monkey, orangutan, palm oil, traveling