Posts tagged south africa

2015 in Retrospective

2015 has finally come to an end. A chaotic year that started as one of the most difficult of my life but ended as one of the best. Life may kick you mercilessly sometimes, but afterwards, it will always find a way to compensate you with joy, for the sorrow it put you through.

MiscNicolás Marino4 January 2016adventure, africa, angola, bayaka, benin, bicycle, burkina faso, cameroon, central african republic, congo, cycling, gabon, ghana, namibia, nigeria, pygmy, south africa, togo, touring, travel

My South Africa

After saying farewell to my dad at Cape Town airport, my holidays come to an end and it is time to finally prepare to start this new long leg of the journey along the west coast of the African continent.

South AfricaNicolás Marino5 May 2015south africa, cycling, bicycle, touring

The (bitter)sweet Joy of the Arrival

By the time I crossed the border again, to re-enter South Africa, all the bright green colors that had accompanied me from Kwazulu Natal and all the way through Lesotho, had now turned completely yellow.

South AfricaNicolás Marino3 March 2015cycling, cape town, bicycle, traveling, africa, south africa, adventure

InSANIty Pass

It feels really odd to start a new day after spending a night in which you definitely thought that your time to leave this world has finally come.

LesothoNicolás Marino20 February 2015lesotho, sani pass, bicycle, bicycle touring, pass, mountains, africa, south africa, drakensberg, range

Ride the Lightning

It's really impossible to predict when our time can come; that moment, that one time that we all in one way or another fear. In order not to worry, we can go through life trying to

South AfricaNicolás Marino15 February 2015south africa, lesotho, sani pass, drakensberg, mountais, cycling, bicycle, bicycle touring

Leaving Africa

Finally, after 10 months of riding across the east of Africa I arrived in South Africa, the great, and probably the only real, industrial power of this continent. This is the last country before completing the tour around the first half of Africa.

South AfricaNicolás Marino10 February 2015africa, bicycle touring, bicycle, cycling, drakensberg, kwazulu natal, midlands meander, south africa, touring