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By Davide Travelli 24 September, 2019 in Africa, Alaska2Patagonia, Blog, Feature Slider

On crossing Africa

davide travelli at the pyramids in cairo

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them. – Miriam Makeba Crossing Africa will probably be the highlight of my two-wheeled adventure across the continents that make up this planet. After crossing the Americas, I got to Cape Point / Cape of Good Hope south of Cape Town in South Africa and then soon headed for sparsely populated and wild areas to Namibia. I continued north and arrived in Angola where I spent an afternoon as a clandestine. Crossing the

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By Davide Travelli 15 October, 2018 in Africa, Alaska2Patagonia, Blog, Feature Slider, Preparation, Zambia

Malaria Strategy

davide_travelli-tropic-capricorn

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer – Bill Gates Although there is malaria in Latin America, the chances of contracting this parasite are very remote and 90% of travellers do not plan any type of prophylaxis. In Africa it’s another story. There are three types of malaria in Africa and these kill far more people than I would have guessed. Once the parasite enters the human body it is difficult to eradicate it and can remain hidden for years in the liver and then awaken

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By Davide Travelli 1 August, 2018 in Africa, Alaska2Patagonia, Blog, Feature Slider, Namibia, Raw Journal

The long way round

The long way round

Remember me my love, I’m the one you’re dreaming of Going for a ride, I’ll keep you warm inside I’m Gonna roll up the sidewalk, I’m gonna tear up the ground Comin’ round to meet you, The long way round Sooner or later, I’ll get me off this track Gotta do what it is that I do and then I’m – coming back Got sun in my face, sleeping rough on the road I’ll tell you all about it, when I get home Gonna roll up the sidewalk, I’m gonna

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By Davide Travelli 28 June, 2018 in Africa, Alaska2Patagonia, Blog, Book review, Feature Slider, Raw Journal, South Africa

South African Refuge. Also review of “In Patagonia” by Bruce Chatwin

bikepacking in the Cederberg

Man’s real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot. – Bruce Chatwin There is always frustration when you relate to someone who does not speak your language and does not seem to make the slightest effort to try and understand you. In Latin America the frustration sometimes made me fume because I knew I did not speak Arabic (by now my Spanish I spoke it was relatively fluent) but sometimes it happened that people looked at me

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By Davide Travelli 25 May, 2018 in Alaska2Patagonia, Americas, Blog, Feature Slider

Americas is (already) great

Bike travelling Patagonia

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry – Jack Kerouac. Disclaimer: I will use the term Americas referring to the whole continent. Americas to me is the whole of North America, Central America and South America. Where I come from in school you learn there are five continents like the Olympic Rings, one is America or Americas. It’s been almost a month since I arrived in Ushuaia, the world’s southmost city in, in Patagonia and the point of arrival of my crossing of the American continent from tip to

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