Posts tagged mud

Endless Rainforest

Every day it's harder for me to wake up in the morning, even after having slept a dozen hours. I feel like an old battery that lost the ability to fully charge and discharges quickly. I shake my leg and I still can not feel my foot.

CameroonNicolás Marino8 November 2015cameroon, africa, rainforest, jungle, adventure, mud, batouri, central africa, yokadouma, refugee camps, fulani, central african republic, conflict, logging, deforestation

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

Land of Encounters

After periods of such intensity, day after day handling such high levels of adrenaline, the arrival of easier stretches is not only welcome but becomes a necessity.

CongoNicolás Marino15 October 2015africa, congo, jungle, adventure, rainforest, mud, gorillas, chimpanze, odzala, national park

-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

Land of Volcanoes

It always surprises me how fast the road can change. After the three days, it took me to cross Park Queen Elizabeth through the savannah, followed by the forest along its beautiful loneliness surrounded by animals, we arrived finally to a remote village where the simplicity of the plain road turned suddenly into a hell of slippery slopes.

UgandaNicolás Marino26 October 2014adventure, africa, bicycle, cycling, hills, kisoro, mud, touring, uganda, virungas, western