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April 06 2012 Father Lachaise: I Vecino Jim Morrison

For: Enrique Vaquerizo (text and photos)

If there is a destination that deserves a place of honor in the obituary tourism and pilgrimage to Mecca groupies of shrouds, that is none other than the cemetery of Pere Lachaise and the jewel in its crown, The tumba of James William Morrison.

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feb 19 2012 Carnival in Rio: murder in the Sambadrome of Lewis Carroll

For: Enrique Vaquerizo (text and photos)

Carnaval de Río: el asesinato en el sambódromo de Lewis Carroll

Not what it would feel when he met Alice Rabbit stressed that in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll imagined, but compared to the outskirts of the Sambadrome be sure that the rabbit meat from resort

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feb 05 2012 Burkina Faso: Dafra sacred catfish

For: Enrique Vaquerizo (text and photos)

Burkina Faso: los siluros sagrados de Dafra

The scene is indescribable. All around the rocks and hanging bloodstained fur hundreds of goats, cows and a horse, be scattered walking endless chicken feathers like a foam party they were, the smell of death pervades every corner of the lake.

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December 16 2011 Bolivia: Madidi park and the secret of Toromonas

For: Enrique Vaquerizo (text and photos)

Bolivia: el parque Madidi y el secreto de los Toromonas

(...) "However the most amazing thing is what it says the wizard of Ichipiamonas". -Intrigued I ask you to continue. "Parents of the gringo, came to look at Madidi, desperate to ask the witch came to the village, an old man as they say has powers, gave them coca leaves ". And hold on to the Norwegian was living among the Indians who become a kind of head or something. Since then the parents keep coming back every year (...) By Enrique Vaquerizo.

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oct 31 2011 The Ñatitas of La Paz: a Sunday between calaveras
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Las Ñatitas de La Paz: un domingo entre calaveras

In La Paz, sordid and magical, merciless and surprising, spiritual and pagan at a time, the feast of All Saints held off the beaten. A week later begins the Feast of Ñatitas and the city's indigenous majority is released to the cemeteries to hold a macabre and festive feast where the main guest is death. Welcome to one of the biggest shows of the World.

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oct 03 2011 Voulet there Chanonne: the macabre killing French Niger
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Voulet y Chanonne: la macabra matanza francesa del Níger

And Kakpu, the inhabitants had been completely stripped and burned their crops. In Sassanné Houssa over a hundred women and children were killed and decapitated bayonet stroke being too weak to serve the army. Each time a carrier could not follow was executed with his sword and left to the vultures to save bullets.

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