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

A New Beginning

I was born, raised and lived until I was 28 years old in a country called “developing country”, a political and hypocrite concept recently created by economists of rich countries when referring basically to the third world.

UgandaNicolás Marino20 October 2014adventure, africa, animals, bicycle, cycling, equator, fort portal, lake edward, national park, queen elizabeth, tea plantations, touring, tropic, uganda, wild, wilderness