Travel for Aid: in Iran by Pushbike Part 1

We left Matteo Tricarico in India, during his Travel For Aid odissey across Asia into Europe… after a short stint in Dubai, Matteo is now in Iran, a fascinating country full of culture, deserts and very hospitable people…
Before beginning this journey, I read on the internet diaries of other cyclists who travelled through Iran in the last ten years and their words reassured me since they all spoke highly of the kindness, hospitality and friendliness of Iranian population. So far, but I’m pretty sure that I will not change my mind; I can join in exalting these features of the Iranians. In the last eighteen months of travelling I could recall hundreds of examples people’s kindness and courtesy, regardless of the country where I was, I believe that in the case of Iran the “surprise” is due to negative image that the Western media give of this country. It does not seem possible that the citizens of an anti-western and traditionalist Islamic theocracy, where the Sharia is the law of reference, can be warm, friendly and even expansive towards Western travellers, who are supposed to be “infidels” trying to corrupt the local youth. The surprise to find so open and sympathetic people towards foreigners is the result of bias, combined with the prejudice, which comes from American propaganda, that would like to submit to the Westerner rules this country that, among other things, is a large producers of oil and natural gas and therefore it is to be stripped of these natural wealth … (more…)



Continuo a trasmettere il resoconto delle avventure di Matteo Tricarico in India a bordo della sua bicicletta che sin’ora lo ha incredibilmente portato da Saigon, sino al Nepal da dove mi sta inviando questi scritti, in attesa di riprendere il viaggio verso Ovest, con tappa finale Manfredonia, la sua citta’ natale in Puglia… questa volta ascoltiamo le disavventure di un eroe, e col sorriso, gli si augura di non doverne subire altre… 










