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What the hell am I doing here?

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)
What the hell am I doing here?
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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Lhatse: a violinist in the trash

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)
Lhatse: a violinist in the trash
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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Tashilumpo: Giant Buddha Rats

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)
Tashilumpo: Giant Buddha Rats
Tashilunpo monastery was home to the second authority in Tibet, The Panchen Lama. When the Dalai Lama fled the Chinese invasion, Beijing sought and found their support. But the idyll did not last long and ended up imprisoned Panchen Lama. I'm in Shigatse, at the foot of the largest Buddha statue in the world. A monk asked me 30 photograph yuan. Is it true that some of them are Chinese agents?
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Other's eyes

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)
Other's eyes
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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The reincarnated brown ant
For: Juancho Sanchez / Gustavo Castelão (text / photos)

The reincarnated brown ant
The height reduces the oxygen level and complicated movements. At first it is imperceptible, but then it will increasingly notice. The dawn of our eighth day of the Annapurna circuit is overwhelming.
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Norbulingka: the Dalai Lama's "driving school"
For: Ricardo Coarasa

Norbulingka: the Dalai Lama's "driving school"
The summer palace of the highest spiritual authority of Buddhism, the "Jewel Park", is the antithesis of the city-fortress of the Potala. In the walled garden outside the current Dalai Lama Lhasa, Tenzin Gyatso, learned to drive in two and a Dodge Austin as his predecessor did bring in pieces across the Himalayas to the astonishment of people who lived at anchor in the Middle Ages.
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