Posts tagged sand

Reduced to Insignificance

The psychological effort I need to leave this service station is immeasurable. There is nothing around it in about 200 km in every direction,

Western SaharaNicolás Marino10 May 2016africa, sahara, saharauis, Dakhla, Western Sahara, adventure, desert, sand, wind, bicycle touring

Love for the Mato (bush)

After crossing 350 km of bush for a week, I finally arrived in Lubango very tired. But instead of staying in the largest city in the south of the country I decided to continue 15 km uphill to Humpata, a small village located on a plateau at 1920 m high.

AngolaNicolás Marino2 July 2015angola, mato, bush, cunene, lubango, benguela, cycling, bicycle, bicycle touring, adventure, sand, extreme, touring

Sahara...

After the epic journey across Mongolia from last year, my memories of the magnificent Gobi desert remained very present inside me. There, we spent days that

EgyptNicolás Marino10 April 2014adventure, al-qasr, bahariya, bawiti, bicycle, black desert, cycling, desert, egypt, farafra, oasis, quartz, sahara, sand, touring, white desert

Stardust

The more I travel the more I understand that idyll doesn't come in one but multiple forms. As time passed by, I discovered that the beaches of turquoise crystal-clear waters are as idyllic as the snowed peaks of the mountain ranges or the infinite grasslands of the steppe.

MongoliaNicolás Marino25 September 2013adventure, bicycle, cycling, desert, gers, gobi, horse, mongolia, nomads, sand, sky, stars