Posts tagged poverty

Luanda the Unjust

My first contact with Angola had occurred five years ago, in 2010, when my boss at the office I worked for in Chengdu, China, put me in charge of a project for an office building in Luanda for a Chinese developer there.

AngolaNicolás Marino22 July 2015angola, luanda, africa, cycling, adventure, bicycle touring, poverty, inequality, slums, bairros

If You Want Money, You Ask for it

Sometimes, massive human tragedies such as genocides need to happen in some countries, that are unimportant (and sometimes completely unknown) for most people in the world, to be recognized in the map of humanity.

BurundiNicolás Marino5 November 2014adventure, africa, bicycle, bujumbura, burundi, cassava, cycling, genocide, lake, poverty, tanganyka, touring, tragedy

Angels of Ethiopia

From all I have written about Ethiopia so far, it should be already clear that the main problem we find again and again in this country is its people, particularly children, and teenagers.

EthiopiaNicolás Marino24 June 2014NGO, adventure, bicycle, children, church, ethiopia, ethiopian, hiv, mission, poverty, tigray, touring, wukro

Rural Life and Hard Work

Leaving the Himalayas for the lowlands of the Terai was the beginning of the immersion in the Nepalese rural life. Away from the hordes of tourists that come and go to the high Himalayas, Pokhara, Kathmandu and the eastern Terai, you have this small country pretty much for yourself.

NepalNicolás Marino3 March 2014bardia, bicycle, brick factory, child labor, cycling, mahendranagar, nepal, poverty, touring, western terai

Arriving at Indonesia's biggest metropolis

Once completed our journey through the volcanoes, we wanted to get to Java as fast as possible. Java, with the exception of the spectacular east of the island, is where the majority of the population of the country lives, and in a country of 200 million people, that is not a minor thing.

IndonesiaNicolás Marino1 July 2013borobudur, central, chaos, city, indonesia, jams, java, jogjakarta, merapi, overcrowding, poverty, slum, temple, traffic, volcano, yogyakarta

Volcanos, Solitary Bays and Rice Fields

Entering and leaving big cities by bicycle is rarely a pleasant experience and Manila is not the exception. Actually it is the perfect expression of the immense stress that involves such process.

PhilippinesNicolás Marino12 February 2013adventure, bicycle, caramoan, city, cycling, donsol, isarog, luzon, makati, manila, mayon, philippines, poverty, rice fields, slums, south luzon, traveling, volcanoes, whale sharks