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sea 27 2013 Tazara: on-board copper

For: Juanra Morales (text and photos)

The convoy stops are eternal and give us time to tour wagons. The next to ours is like a refugee camp, people cooking in the ground, a pair of canvas stretched under which a child a few months slumbers between the tremendous din of his mother talking loudly and radios with music blaring.

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December 19 2012 Travel by dhow to Zanzibar: the full moon…

For: Juan Ramon Morales (text and photos)

I give up my life for a vague dream awakened in pages read in volumes of youthful adventures, travel books, Navigation trials. And now just wait for the moon and tides make it possible to lift the hulls of 10 meters of Jahazi, beached on the sand of Africa, without rigging or covered, as abandoned tortoise shells.

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oct 03 2012 Tourist in Venice or not?

For: Juan Ramon Morales (text and photos)

How often we, pro travelers, after crossing miles of desert, starve, cold, suffer illness or "bugs", We ended up being nothing more than "Tourist" for the first location we have found. Not very flattering but quite realistic.

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ago 28 2012 Nenets herders, the last nomads of Siberia

For: Juan Ramon Morales (text and photos)

Pastores Nenets, los últimos nómadas de Siberia

As the helicopter that will take us back is about, in a sea of reindeer, pastors dismantle the chums and leave without saying goodbye. The word "goodbye" makes no sense for them, and "thank you". In this world nothing is hard and harsh calls, everything belongs to everyone and is dismissed because the security of the reunion is general for all.

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jun 20 2012 Lebanon: Shadow of Baalbek
For: Juan Ramon Morales (text and photos)

A militiaman of not more than 15 years we anxiously look, the submachine gun over his shoulder and a cigarette dangling from his lips, not knowing what to do. We stared in silence, tense, waiting for something, I do not know which. In these cases, as always, is the most absurd coincidence that breaks the ice, when your phone rings Barca anthem.

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may 18 2012 Nyuru, Sacred Mountain of circumcision
For: Juan Ramon Morales (text and photos)

Nyuru, la Montaña sagrada de la circuncisión

During that time, applicants to "dwell" are in a no man's land where almost anything goes, vacated marching shoulder the responsibilities of adults in the group. Free Sex, raids and hunting, "Mischief" considered normal prior to the entry through the acute pain in a final stage in their lives.

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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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