Posts tagged traffic

When the Body says Enough

It is the end of the afternoon when a truck drops me off on the outskirts of the giant city of Ibadan. From there, it takes me more than two hours to reach the university campus where my friend Bimbo lives and she is waiting for me to host me. Traffic is hell on earth

NigeriaNicolás Marino2 December 2015africa, nigeria, ibadan, lagos, sickness, cycling, adventure, bicycle, tourings, traffic, highways

One Year on the Road

After leaving Kyoto, we finally entered the last stretch to Tokyo. It was a road in the future towards the future. We decided to cycle the 550 km along route 1, the road that

JapanNicolás Marino26 December 2013adventure, autumn, bullet train, cycling, fall, fuji, fuji-san, future, ginza, hostel, japan, luxury, mount fuji, nagoya, tokyo, touring, traffic, work

Dharma. My New Bicycle.

We crossed into China with a voracious appetite. It was not the hunger as much as the necessity we had to eat well, to eat delicious food and nothing better than being back in China to accomplish this.

ChinaNicolás Marino10 October 2013adventure, beijing, bicycle, boskey, china, cycling, dirt, factory, hebei, industry, overlander, pollution, traffic, trucks

Arriving at Indonesia's biggest metropolis

Once completed our journey through the volcanoes, we wanted to get to Java as fast as possible. Java, with the exception of the spectacular east of the island, is where the majority of the population of the country lives, and in a country of 200 million people, that is not a minor thing.

IndonesiaNicolás Marino1 July 2013borobudur, central, chaos, city, indonesia, jams, java, jogjakarta, merapi, overcrowding, poverty, slum, temple, traffic, volcano, yogyakarta