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

Volcanos, Solitary Bays and Rice Fields

Entering and leaving big cities by bicycle is rarely a pleasant experience and Manila is not the exception. Actually it is the perfect expression of the immense stress that involves such process.

PhilippinesNicolás Marino12 February 2013adventure, bicycle, caramoan, city, cycling, donsol, isarog, luzon, makati, manila, mayon, philippines, poverty, rice fields, slums, south luzon, traveling, volcanoes, whale sharks