Not always did we have such a welcoming reception just upon our arrival in the capital city. By the time the police stopped us we already had been hopelessly stuck in the hectic pre match -Africa Cup of Nations- traffic jam for almost 4 hours and had another 4 hours to go before we could […]
Entre las imágenes que tenía en mi cabeza sobre el continente africano antes de iniciar el viaje estaba la sabana llena de leones como en los documentales de la 2, los niños desnudos y la barriga hinchada y la imagen de un baobab. Esta última podría ser utilizada como símbolo del África negra y no […]
This is Africa and I mean it neither in a good mood nor in a nice way. You normally get to hear it when things go wrong, there are problems, you don´t get what you have paid for –think of any annoying situation where everything sucks-! Then, there is always the smart African or white […]
Having said that I actually have to admit that I did not take much advantage of this fact. I still need a lot of practice to ride a fully loaded bike on challenging terrains. Before heading to Guinea we noticed that notoriously enough it did not appear on the travel route of hardly any tourists, […]
3 months ago I even didn´t know where or what Bamako was. In Mali? Well, where was Mali then? And as soon as we got moving, leaving Madrid in the last hectic day of finishing off the house moving we knew that our next stop will be Bamako. This way we could start the trip […]
Es habitual ver en las calles de cualquier ciudad o pueblo de Mauritania basura amontonada o dispersa por doquier. Pero el viajero que pasa por este país no puede pasar por alto la cantidad de cabras sueltas que hay en las ciudades, alimentándose de todo lo que encuentran a su paso y felices de encontrar […]
Long time ago there was a Tuareg who had a dream. We all have a dream but his was a very special one: to bring together the music legacy of all the Tuareg tribes and show the world who the Tuaregs are and how magical their music can be. We just got back from the […]
