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Berna: five centuries of imprisonment for the bears

For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)
Berna: five centuries of imprisonment for the bears
(...) Is 1513 when the soldiers come home victors of the Battle of Novara carrying a live bear as a trophy. We decide to build an animal enclosure, a pit before the central door (...) French General Brune humiliated in 1798 to the Bernese after taking the city and take all the animals to Paris.
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Lago Turkana: towards the Jade Sea

For: Juan Ramon Morales (text and photos)
Lago Turkana: towards the Jade Sea
(...) Going up a wall of lava is opening before them a surreal scene. A huge expanse of water, verde jade, hit by a steady wind and surrounded by small volcanoes. Teleki and Von Hohnel completed well, for European cartographers, the map of the African Great Lakes with the farthest, inaccessible and mysterious of all, from Lake Turkana.
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The stone which averted a war

For: Gerardo Bartolomé
The stone which averted a war
What border dispute between Argentina and Chile helped solve this stone next to the Andes? A track: bears the name of a British colonel sent by Queen Victoria to arbitrate the dispute and avoid a war between the two countries. Behind this story there is an interesting story that will within a week the writer and traveler VaP. Gerardo Bartolomé.
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Matusadona: safaris in bote

For: Javier Brandoli
This beautiful park is a cluster Zimbabwean different image, reflections in the water, assorted colors in the leaves of the trees, of strange birds, unpredictable sounds, wildlife, loneliness, silence…
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Matusadona: the park that does not belong to the maps
For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)

Matusadona: the park that does not belong to the maps
Matusadona is a treat to the senses. A unique park, very beautiful, Africa teaches from the waters. It is so removed from everything that seems to be hidden from the world, as if there's life to develop on his back, the shadows (...) This place has something of paradise vetoed, end of nowhere where I never found, of piece of land that belongs to the maps.
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