Posts Tagged ‘chile

Top 7 / Sunrises

For: Daniel Landa
Top 7 / Amaneceres
At that time it wakes up the world. Early wake, coffee and silence: always compensates. Every journey stops at dawn because it is the time of the truce, the point where the traveler understands his whereabouts. Then there is the bustle of stories, the lives of others passing loop, the miles of road ...
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The Everest climber overcome by

For: Gerardo Bartolomé
El alpinista vencido por el Everest
He dreamed, like so many other climbers of the time, to become the first man to tread the summit of Everest, but the glory was elusive. Sorry, heart rumbo a la Patagonia. Other peaks waiting to be conquered virgin. What is the name of the British explorer and mountaineer image? What feats he starred in southern lands? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome will tell the story in next week VaP..
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The river of deception

For: Gerardo Bartolomé
El río de la decepción
Where in Southern Patagonia was beached the boat of an old engraving? What intrepid sailor took advantage of this estuary to repair your boat and, passing, explore the river in search of an Andean lake that never saw? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome made the same route. He did manage to see the lake. I will in a week in VaP..
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Judicial Stop dams in Patagonia
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Chilean Justice has ordered halt Hidroaysén, the largest South American country's hydroelectric project,which plans to build five plants in Chilean Patagonia. The initiative has raised strong opposition among the population, a malaise that has even led to a decline in the popularity of Chilean President, Sebastián Piñera. The project, it costs 3.500 billion (about 2.450 million) guarantees the production of 2.750 megawatts of power. Read the story of the writer and traveler VaP. Gerardo Bartolomé in on this controversial issue: http://www.viajesalpasado.com/carretera-austral-el-sos-de-la-naturaleza/. Also in: http:/http.viajesalpasado.com/proyecto-hidroaysen/.
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Milodon Cave: come and see
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In the caves of southern Chile, near Puerto Natales, in the Pleistocene was the habitat of a large mammal, the mylodon. The story of the discovery of the last remnants of this herbivore in VaP. account the travel writer Gary Bartholomew on his blog "From Patagonia".
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On the trail of the last mylodon
For: Gerardo Bartolomé (text and photos)

Tras el rastro del último milodón
The naturalist and his assistant kept digging, looking to find what they believed. The cave was large and had spent several days digging in various places. When they were about to give up the shovel dug up a hide with fur intact. "It's the skin of a milodon!”, exclaimed the enthusiastic naturalist to examine.
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Exposure - A media luz · Javier Brandoli

  • Islas Kuna Yala
    Kuna Yala Islands (Panama)
  • Fuentes del Nilo
    Sources of the Nile (Uganda)
  • Dunas Erg Chebbi
    Dunas Erg Chebbi (Morocco)
  • Delta del Okavango (Botsuana)
    Okavango Delta (Botswana)
  • Singapur
    Singapore
  • Casas Colgantes
    Hanging Houses (Cuenca)
  • Crematorio Pashupatinath
    Crematorium Pashupatinath (Nepal)
  • Bretaña
    Brittany (France)
  • Trafalgar Square, Londres
    Trafalgar Square, London (England)
  • Islas Kuna Yala
    Kuna Yala Islands (Panama)
  • Segovia
    Segovia (Spain)
  • Iglesia Carmona, Sevilla
    Carmona Church, Sevilla (Spain)
  • Isla de Skye
    Isla de Skye (Scotland)
  • Praga
    Prague (Czech Republic)
  • Río Thamesis, Londres
    Río Thamesis, London (England)
  • Delta del Okavango
    Okavango Delta (Botswana)

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