A Little Bit of Fame

A few months ago I was interviewed by Outdoor Exploration 户外探险 magazine, one of the biggest adventure magazines in China.

MiscNicolás Marino22 April 2014asia, bicycle, china, chinese, cycling, interview, magazine, nicolas marino, outdoor exploration, touring, traveling, trip

Welcome to Alaska??

Only when you reach the Nile after having spent weeks in the desert is when you are finally able to understand its historical and present-day relevance. It is very

EgyptNicolás Marino20 April 2014adventure, aswan, bicycle, cycling, desert, domino, egypt, luxor, nile, river, sahara, shisha, touring

Sahara...

After the epic journey across Mongolia from last year, my memories of the magnificent Gobi desert remained very present inside me. There, we spent days that

EgyptNicolás Marino10 April 2014adventure, al-qasr, bahariya, bawiti, bicycle, black desert, cycling, desert, egypt, farafra, oasis, quartz, sahara, sand, touring, white desert

The Door to Africa

Between traveling, working, and living, I have spent little over 8 years of my life in Asia. Exploring and discovering this continent had always been my life's dream for

EgyptNicolás Marino20 March 2014adventure, bicycle, cairo, church, coptic cairo, cycling, desert, egypt, egyptians, grandeur, islam, islamic, market, mosque, muslim, nile, people, touring

Touring India with family

It is time for visits once again and this time we have received my mom. As I already mentioned before with the visit of my dad, our parents are to a great degree responsible of who we are,

IndiaNicolás Marino15 March 2014bikaner, delhi, deshnok, india, jaipur, jodhpur, karni mata, old delhi, rat temple, varanasi

The weddings

There is nothing more special than being able to experience a country from within, living with its people, following their traditions, living the everyday life. It was in

IndiaNicolás Marino12 March 2014adventure, bicycle, cycling, india, traditional, wedding

And Here Goes the Third.......

It's the third time in my life that arrive in India and the second by bicycle. 13 years ago, I was arriving for the first time and at 22 years old, I was barely a kid carrying a backpack with little experience in comparison to the present.

IndiaNicolás Marino10 March 2014adventure, bicycle, cycling, delhi, india, pollution, rural, touring, uttar pradessh, uttarakhand

Rural Life and Hard Work

Leaving the Himalayas for the lowlands of the Terai was the beginning of the immersion in the Nepalese rural life. Away from the hordes of tourists that come and go to the high Himalayas, Pokhara, Kathmandu and the eastern Terai, you have this small country pretty much for yourself.

NepalNicolás Marino3 March 2014bardia, bicycle, brick factory, child labor, cycling, mahendranagar, nepal, poverty, touring, western terai

An Explosion of Life

Landing in Nepal after 71 days of Japanese sterility was like getting back to life. It is said that man is a creature of habit, and sometimes it takes a sudden shake to

NepalNicolás Marino24 February 2014adventure, bicycle, boskey, cycling, durbar square, himalaya, kathmandu, nepal, pokhara, temples, touring

A few videos of the year

MiscNicolás Marino23 February 2014adventure, asia, bicycle, china, cycling, indonesia, japan, mongolia, philippines, south korea, touring, video

Bye Japan!

70 days in Japan. 25 days cycling across it and 45 days working in Tokyo were more than enough, perhaps too much.

JapanNicolás Marino25 January 2014conduct, cycling, daisuke nakanishi, experience, feeling, japan, rigidity, society, strict, tokyo, touring

Japanese style extravangaza

During these 70 days in the most technologically developed country of the planet, we've seen many amazing things. At some level, after some time of being here, one feels that the

JapanNicolás Marino20 January 2014adventure, bicycle, cycling, dogs, excess, future, gambling, japan, luxury, pachinko, price, sex, shibuya, slot, technology, toilet, touring

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

A Zen Experience

Arriving in Honshu is entering the most developed part of Japan and also the coldest from a human perspective. It is the true gateway to a couple of centuries later,

JapanNicolás Marino22 December 2013japan, kyoto, osaka, zen, temples, honshu, future, autumn

A Little Bit of Nature

Despite the virtually infinite urban continuum along Japanese routes, there are some places where there is relatively a higher proportion of nature. Needless to say, it is never

JapanNicolás Marino11 December 2013autumn, bicycle, canyon, cycling, foliage, harley davidson, japan, koboke, misaki, motrocycle, oboke, shikoku, touring

Illusion of Perfection

Getting to Japan is like leaving the present and take a leap into the future, at least technologically (I hope!). Even coming from Korea, which is on the right track to become "the future" soon, the impact is remarkable.

JapanNicolás Marino25 November 2013atomic bomb, bicycle, cycling, fukuoka, future, japan, kyushu, museum, nagasaki, touring

The Longest Bicycle Path in the World

Korea seems fully aware of the problems that come with such an excess of technology and a population of workaholics. To try to compensate for these new "bad habits",

South KoreaNicolás Marino5 November 2013adventure, asia, autumn, bicycle trail, bicycle, bike trail, busan, dam, fall, four rivers, korea, military, seoul, south korea, tanks

Little Giant

South Korea is the country number 50 that I visit, and after almost a year of pedaling mainly through remote regions of Asia, arriving in Korea was like an abrupt jump into

South KoreaNicolás Marino26 October 2013bicycle trail, bicycle, bridge, cycling, four rivers, incheon, korea, seoul, south korea, surgery, touring

The polluted north of China and 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

Mongolia in the Heart

Having cycled across Mongolia meant having made a long-time dream come true. 55 days that felt like leaving the time and space in which one is used to live in.

MongoliaNicolás Marino4 October 2013adventure, beauty, bicycle, cycling, desert, gobi, mongolia, mongolian, nomads, people, photography, photos, steppe, touring