Posts tagged people

The Warm Congolese Spirit

Once again, three weeks have passed since having stopped, but finally, the wait is over and the bureaucracy too (at least for the time being). These last two months of long stops went slow but the truth is that they have been necessary.

CongoNicolás Marino17 September 2015congo, republic of the congo, adventure, congolese, people, savannah, equatorial, tropics, spider

The example of Mozambique

Mozambique is the vital proof that mere material poverty is not enough an excuse to justify the endemic problem of the sickly demands of money to the white man (assumed rich by definition) that happens invariably in almost every country of sub-Saharan Africa.

MozambiqueNicolás Marino1 February 2015adventure, africa, bicycle, cycling, east, mozambican, mozambique, people, touring, traveling

Faith with Ethiopian Flavour

The Tigray region was the main reason, if not the only one, why our route across Ethiopia was almost double the distance that takes to cross the country along the shortest route. The one

EthiopiaNicolás Marino22 June 2014aba yohani, abuna yemata, adventure, bicycle, children, church, coffee ceremony, cycling, ethiopia, ethiopian, geralta, people, priest, rock churches, rock, tigray, touring

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

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

Mongolia in the Heart

Having cycled across Mongolia meant having made a long-time dream come true. 55 days that felt like leaving the time and space in which one is used to live in.

MongoliaNicolás Marino4 October 2013adventure, beauty, bicycle, cycling, desert, gobi, mongolia, mongolian, nomads, people, photography, photos, steppe, touring

Time Travelling

May began and ended with trouble. As soon as we boarded the Bukit Siguntang at 23:00 hrs. in Makassar, we finally understood what that likeable member of the crew that brought us from Kalimantan, had meant by saying "enjoy that trip". It is unimaginable the chaos that was this boat when we boarded.

IndonesiaNicolás Marino22 May 2013adventure, bicycle, cycling, dengue, hut, indonesia, kupang, people, timor, timorese, tradition, vernacular, west timor