Posts tagged tea

Walk on Water

Only 35 days had passed since we returned to Africa. What we had been through in the last four countries was so intense that they seemed 350 days. We accumulated more than 2000km of exuberant mountains, crystal-clear blue lakes, african jungle, savanna and bush filled with wild animals.

MalawiNicolás Marino20 December 2014adventure, africa, bicycle, cycling, fish, fishermen, fishing, lake, malawi, plantations, tanzania, tea, water

The Land of a Thousand Ways of Suffering

It was the year 1994 and I was 16, when a remote African country virtually unknown to South Americans suddenly echoed in the news. I must say that almost nothing is published about Africa in my country, so I barely remember that moment, but what I do remember is that it was a new tragic story coming from the black continent

BurundiNicolás Marino31 October 2014adventure, africa, bicycle, cycling, kivu, lake kivu, rwanda, tea plantations, tea, touring, virungas, volcano, volcanoes

The Long Crossing of Sumatra

Several people had told me that Sumatra was "the best of Indonesia", but honestly, after more than three months of cycling through this country, where over and over we had been

IndonesiaNicolás Marino16 July 2013Sumatra, Toba, adventure, bicycle, cycling, hospitality, indonesia, jungle, kerinci, lake, manis, martabak, monkeys, palm oil, plantations, tea, teran bulang, valleys