Posts tagged volcano

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

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

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

In the Ring of Fire

With such limited time as 4 months to visit Indonesia, the last place in the country where I would have spent at least one second is in Bali. The mere idea of going there gave me chills.

IndonesiaNicolás Marino19 June 2013adventure, bicycle, blue fire, bromo, cemoro lawang, crater, cycling, ijen, indonesia, java, jungle, monkey, sulfur, touring, traveling, tropic, volcano