Posts tagged tropics

The Morning After

5.45 A.M. I open my eyes. I slept 2 hours and I suffered the rest. The thin walls of my tent reveal the first light of day. The jungle is quiet, the elephants are gone and many insects have already gone to sleep ceding the singing to the daytime birds that are already beginning to wake up.

CongoNicolás Marino18 October 2015africa, central african republic, mud, jungle, rainforest, border crossing, trapped, adventure, extreme, bomassa, tropics

A Bakery in Ondingui

I was already only 160 km away from the border with Gabon. I was still in the equatorial savannah, suffering more and more the scorching heat, the sticky tropical humidity and without any place to take shelter.

CongoNicolás Marino25 September 2015bakery, congo, ondingui, equatorial, savannah, tropics, village, life, bicycle, traveling, touring, africa, west

The Warm Congolese Spirit

Once again, three weeks have passed since having stopped, but finally, the wait is over and the bureaucracy too (at least for the time being). These last two months of long stops went slow but the truth is that they have been necessary.

CongoNicolás Marino17 September 2015congo, republic of the congo, adventure, congolese, people, savannah, equatorial, tropics, spider

Into the Lungs of Hell

The sulphur miners of the Ijen volcano, in the easternmost point of Java, carry out still in the 21st century, one of the most unhealthy and inhuman jobs in the world.

IndonesiaNicolás Marino27 June 2013ijen crater, ijen, indonesia, inequality, inhumanity, java, kawah ijen, labor, miners, mining, sulfur, sulphur, tropics, unjustice, volcano

Fading Flores

After two quiet weeks, waiting for Julia to fully recover from the damn dengue, we left Kupang full of energy en route to Maumere, on the volcanic island of Flores. And we should certainly be filled with energy to board again in a PELNI.

IndonesiaNicolás Marino5 June 2013adventure, bajawa, bicycle, cycling, ende, flores, indonesia, kelimutu, labuanbajo, maumere, ruteng, tropical, tropics, vulcano

Going Extreme!

Two of the toughest bike travelers I know, Salva and Adam, both good friends of mine, met in Sulawesi in 2009 and together they embarked on a journey that both

IndonesiaNicolás Marino30 April 2013adventure, bada valley, bicycle, extreme, gimpu, gintu, jungle, lake poso, palu, sulawesi, traveling, trip, tropical, tropics

The Road to the Extreme

It had been quite a long time ago, still during the planning stages of this trip, that two cycle travelers friends' of mine told me that Sulawesi was without a doubt,

IndonesiaNicolás Marino22 April 2013adventure, bicycle, cycling, indonesia, jungle, lake poso, sulawesi, traveling, tropics