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April 11 2012 Through the Sinai by camel

For: Juan Ramon Morales (text and photos)

To summarize nearly four days of mapping query, misunderstandings, anger, purchase of water tanks that never gets to see and many dollars spent on flour and fodder for camels, delivery of biblical wells Khudra Ain, the "green water", good name for the well, really ..... to the monastery of St. Catherine and Mount Sinai, with a friendly Bedu who never stops laughing and does not speak any English

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sea 14 2012 Smell of feet on the slopes of K-2

For: Juan Ramon Morales (text and photos)

And there, one of the highlights of my traveling life more intense, rises between the red and black clouds the great pyramid of K2. A childhood dream fulfilled in a picture from a story about Kipling

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feb 18 2012 Kirgizstan: the persecution of the wolf from the mountains

For: Juan Ramon Morales (text and photos)

Kirgizstan: la persecución del lobo de las montañas

Move to step through the valley of Karkara, border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan today, a limit imposed by Stalin to the same people. The sky is leaden and the snow is announced in the cold wind hit us back. The horses are impatient and Ari, my guide, with them.

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Jan 15 2012 Mustang: the last Himalayan kingdom

For: Juan R. Morales

"The old man watching us while we sip our tea. A silhouette sad, with, Chartered over the years and, I temo, almost blind. Mustang is the king of, the mythical kingdom of Lo, access to the Tibetan plateau from India, land of merchants and robbers".

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Jan 03 2012 The last place on earth: Borneo Jungle
For: Juan Ramon Morales

El último lugar del planeta: la Selva de Borneo

An area and a culture whose visit is restricted to tourism and only accessible by air or walking near 500 miles through a spectacular forest, yet, the planet. (...) The ascent begins very early Murud. Along with Joe Layan, Guia mi Kelabit, we start the ascent of their sacred mountain and looking for traces of the Penan, the original inhabitants of Borneo, real men of the jungle (...) For Juan Ramon Morales.

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December 05 2011 Camel Road Gates Sahara
For: Juan Ramon Morales (text and photos)

Ruta en camello a las Puertas del Sáhara

"We 4 running days. Not hot, Contrary to what most thought. The light reverberates on mica lining the road, where more than one occasion the rounded forms of the abundant fossils or arrowheads are more unreal the way in which we operate under the slow pace of camels, as in a dream"

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nov 10 2011 Mountains of Pakistan: in the land of infidels
For: Juan Ramon Morales (text and photos)

Las montañas de Pakistán: en tierra de infieles

Surrounded by a sea of Muslim peoples for centuries, wine, sexual freedom of their women and a very special way of understanding life is a surprise in this region known for its fanaticism and fugitives from legend that until recently have traveled, allegedly, Osama Bin Laden como, Without going any further.