Mozambique is the vital proof that mere material poverty is not enough an excuse to justify the endemic problem of the sickly demands of...

  Translation courtesy of María Urruti After spending weeks in the bush, arriving in Zimbabwe brings a great welcoming break to the ...

Translation courtesy of Juan Vanecek Once we arrived in Lodwar we finally left the " sandpit" we had gone through to ent...

    If you got here after having read all the stories about Sudan, it will not come as a surprise to read how I feel about this countr...

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

This is a separate post and it is not related to this trip. It has been inspired by a comment made by one reader and it seeks to explain m...

It is a tale To depart from Ulaanbaatar was much more than getting out an ugly city. Departing Ulaanbaatar was to get out of what w...

There are moments in life that are slow in coming.  Moments, that perhaps, one has been looking forward and even yearning for days, mon...

Four months, seven islands, some  6000 km, and some of the most incredible experiences on two wheels so far. Despite seeming a lot, they are...

  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 ...

 We had had enough energies to ride across the jungle, but it was only a few days after the odyssey was over that we truly realized the...

We finally got to a place with a fast enough Internet connection that allows me to upload video. Here you can watch part I and II of the ext...

  Two of the toughest bike travelers I know, Salva and Adam, both good friends of mine, met in Sulawesi in 2009 and together they embark...

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 tha...

During my years of traveling both as a backpacker and traveler by bicycle, I have been more than once dazzled by what the world has to...

The last good-bye to Manila After coming back from Palawan we spent two final days in Manila the ugly, we happily said good-bye t...

  There are always primitive reasons that make us who we are and explain why we do the things we do. In my case, the main reason why I...

Manila the ugly Entering and leaving big cities by bicycle is rarely a pleasant experience and Manila is not the exception. Act...

Since we got to the Philippines many things drew our attention and almost all the time, with no exceptions, they were good things. Amo...

I won't deny the fact that despite its great beauty, I felt relief when leaving Guizhou贵州. Afterall, it had been a very demanding phys...