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April 18 2011 What the hell am I doing here?

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

What traveler has not ever had that question away from home? Even the most fascinating trips toll charges, by the way, occasional desolate place. Sites where no one seems interested in going and where, however, is a. In the Tibetan people Shega, a one-day Everest Base Camp in Rongbuk, the happy question reverberated more strongly than ever within me.

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April 12 2011 Lhatse: a violinist in the trash

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

In travel, as in life, you can see the glass half full or half empty. Landscapes abominable redeemed by a look, idyllic sunsets besieged by mosquitoes, exciting adventures that end in a gazebo with poolside snack bar ... Is in our hands, almost always, select and reset other memories. Lhatse, poblachón a Tibetan, greets us with heaps of rubbish. But, from that huge amount of filth, comes an unforgettable violinist. By Ricardo COARASA.

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sea 21 2011 Other's eyes

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

It is a question with a thousand faces. On the road, in gutters, in their fields, about transistor, in the shade of a tree, in a crowded bus, in a tractor trailer, among the stalls of a market. The look of the other surprises you at every step, sometimes fleeting, other infinite. Zarandea, restless, softens, forces you to think, as. It happens that, when we are so far from home, the other is us.

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sea 14 2011 Gyantse: the strength of the brave with no luck

For: Ricardo Coarasa

Gyantse: la fortaleza de los valientes sin suerte

From the valley of Nyang-chu, the once mighty fortress of Gyantse seems a maiden defiled, a half-finished decoration. Once up, with the plateau at our feet as far as the eye can see, one fully understands the strategic value of this crossroads between China and India where the Tibetans fought in 1904 the last battle before limping before the British invasion.

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sea 07 2011 The most impressive stupa of Tibet
For: Ricardo Coarasa

On the Tibetan city of Gyantse some capricious god one day due to launch a curse. His two great treasures, a monastery and a fortress, were destroyed without mercy. But as the gods crowded but not drown, at least it is one of the most impressive stupas (funerary monuments) Tibet.

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feb 21 2011 A cross the Himalayas with a rookie driver
For: Ricardo Coarasa

A cruzar el Himalaya con un conductor novato

As we left Lhasa, Bumble each of the buttons on the dashboard to make sure what they are. Circulates 50 km / h, are continuing their sharp braking and cornering takes every invading the wrong lane, whether or not visibility. The driver of the SUV that should lead us to Kathmandu, 1.100 km across the Himalayas. I will travel through one of the most dangerous roads of the earth with a conductor trainee. I'm excited.

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December 08 2010 The first encounter with Everest
For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

No matter early in the morning when you're chasing a dream. Today I woke up in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital. Are the six o'clock. Within four hours I get on a plane to Lhasa, across the highest mountain range on earth, Himalaya.