Posts tagged nile

The Sudanese

I perceived it from the very beginning in Wadi Halfa, while walking along its streets of sand in that very hot Saharan night. I looked around me and the hundreds of merchants that filled the

SudanNicolás Marino30 April 2014adventure, bicycle, camels, cycling, desert, kerma, nile, nubia, nubians, people, sahara, sudan, touring, wedding

Sweating Sudan

We are in the queue to buy the tickets for the boat to Wadi Halfa, it's 46 C in the shade. While we wait, two nice Egyptian tour agents get in the queue behind us and exclaim effusively the usual: “Welcome to Alaska!” to

SudanNicolás Marino26 April 2014adventure, bicycle, cycling, desert, heat, kerma, mamba, moltaga, nile, river, sahara, sudan, summer, temperature, touring, wind

Welcome to Alaska??

Only when you reach the Nile after having spent weeks in the desert is when you are finally able to understand its historical and present-day relevance. It is very

EgyptNicolás Marino20 April 2014adventure, aswan, bicycle, cycling, desert, domino, egypt, luxor, nile, river, sahara, shisha, touring

The Door to Africa

Between traveling, working, and living, I have spent little over 8 years of my life in Asia. Exploring and discovering this continent had always been my life's dream for

EgyptNicolás Marino20 March 2014adventure, bicycle, cairo, church, coptic cairo, cycling, desert, egypt, egyptians, grandeur, islam, islamic, market, mosque, muslim, nile, people, touring