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sea 20 2013 May Silver: market where they eat dogs and horses

For: Enrique Vaquerizo (text and photos)

And the feast continues; braised, fried or grilled, dog meat and horse listed as delicatessens. Issoufou forgeron an elder tells me that if you are lucky enough to eat the leg of a black dog, acquire the power to be invisible to your enemies at night. Gives me an amulet to continue their journey safely.

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Jan 22 2013 Cameroon: Waza giraffes

For: Enrique Vaquerizo (text and photos)

And here we are, I've spent a paste, which had accumulated the previous weeks, with tiny portions of grilled chicken and sleeping on buses for not catching hotels. I hit game of roulette, all red, expected Waza Park.

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Jan 11 2013 Getting to Africa: Niger

For: Enrique Vaquerizo (text and photos)

er the hippos that are in the Niger River on the outskirts of the city? Ugh complicated, gasoline has hiked, I can not get a picture 100 EUR! On the brink of insanity, faltered, I beg leave cockroaches company not too greedy and wishing me a good firing stroke.

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nov 09 2012 Benin: nonreturn door

For: Enrique Vaquerizo (text and photos)

The Door of No Return is one of those places that transmits more by suggesting that at showing, where the silences are loud and shake until the last recesses of the soul. You can almost hear cries million captives in the waves, pleas sent as messages in bottles lost in the ocean.

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ago 23 2012 The crazy story of zebras La Paz
For: Enrique Vaquerizo (text and photos)

La enloquecida historia de las cebras de La Paz

When I was considering a dignified exit, or the ability to call the official to say he was sick and on my second day, a pair of shadows suddenly attacked me from behind and grabbed me by the armpits. - "Go, which lacked, express kidnapping hangover breakfast!

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jul 25 2012 Salar de Uyuni: the struggle of indigenous lithium
For: Enrique Vaquerizo (text and photos)

Salar de Uyuni: la lucha del litio y los indígenas

Uyuni is not a particularly pleasant, there are not many hotels and the dust seems to follow tenacious to the last of its corners. A clear, languid air of Far West goes through a village where residents peer through the cracks in their homes as withered gargoyles and cemetery nearby train seems to move horse thieves of another time.

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jun 27 2012 Jewelry dealers in the Taj Mahal
For: Enrique Vaquerizo (text and photos)

An hour later we plant two resounding kisses and leaves us at the door of Thaj Majal, the two young backpackers contemplate the wonder almost with indifference, in his eyes there is only room for the glow of aquamarine, and plan, many plans. No time to lose, What will they do with the dough?

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