Posts tagged river

Peace at Last!

One of the most frightening days of my life, part of some of the most extreme days that I have experienced travelling, is finally behind. Now I look around, on my first day of rest in a very long time and the fascination overwhelms me.

Central African RepublicNicolás Marino20 October 2015africa, border crossing, congo, central african republic, sangha river, bomassa, WCS, toys, african, bayanga, sangha, river, central africa

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

The Tribal Heart of Angola

I had been cycling for almost two months of pure adrenaline, pedaling along the remotest roads of Namibia. I had been enjoying the beautiful solitude of a sublime scenery while dodging potentially dangerous encounters with wild beasts on a daily basis and coping with the scarcity of resources.

AngolaNicolás Marino18 June 2015africa, angola, mato, bush, cycling, bicycle, bicycle touring, traveling, adventure, tribes, tribal people, mundimba, himba, cunene, river, namibe

The Omo Circus

The departure from Addis was the starting point of our long scape from Ethiopia. We had already spent a month and a half in the middle of the country, and our

EthiopiaNicolás Marino28 July 2014adventure, arbore, bicycle, dassanech, desert, ethiopia, hamar, hamer, omo valley, omo, omorate, river, touring, tribal, tribe, turkana, valley

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

Problems and No Problems

In terms of physical rigor, the entire journey to Erdenet had passed almost unnoticed. Having just passed 10,000 km and 6 months in the tropics cycling steep

MongoliaNicolás Marino4 September 2013adventure, asia, bicycle, cycling, forest, grassland, hovsgol, lake, mongolia, river, siberia, steppe, touring, woods