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may 11 2012 Beyond the Golden Gate: ruta for San Francisco

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

Más allá del Golden Gate: ruta por San Francisco

It is not always easy to live with icons. They are a perfect postcard that often ruins the perception of the environment, if not diluted. San Francisco is the Golden Gate to the same extent that Moscow is the Kremlin or the Eiffel Tower Paris, but none of these cities runs in myth fueled by tourism catalog.

America, In a strange land

may 03 2012 Simien: between the bleeding heart baboons

For: Ricardo Coarasa

Simien: entre los babuinos de corazón sangrante

Come to the mountains of Simien, one of the most fascinating places in Africa, in search of Gelada baboons (in Amharic, the local language, "Bleeding hearts"), a species which is found only in these places above Ethiopians 3.000 meters.

Africa, In a strange land

April 26 2012 Avila: legendary walls, Stone Pages

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

Ávila: murallas legendarias, páginas de piedra

From the Teso del Carmen, north of the canvas walls of Ávila looks rough, meadows of childhood escapades and hiking trails in autumn. The meticulous restoration work has been polished to the stone, now leans too slender, too perfect.

In a strange land, Spain

April 19 2012 Tlaxcala: forbidden to remember Cortés

For: Ricardo Coarasa (Reo photos)

Tlaxcala: prohibido recordar a Hernán Cortés

In few cities is as revealing a statue of his idiosyncrasies as in Tlaxcala. His ancestors were allied with Cortes to overturn the Aztec hegemony, but the only monument that remembers what happened is a statue of Xicotencatl "Young", the son of the cacique who rebelled against the Conqueror and was hanged for it.

America, In a strange land, Mexico cute

April 12 2012 Lalibela: Black Jerusalem king bee
For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

Lalibela: la Jerusalén negra del rey de las abejas

This marvelous city where look up is to look down, where the land seems to have engulfed the work of man in an angry outburst, steeped in history and myths in equal. Ethiopia, nation among nations, dreamed of one day with an African Jerusalem Christians to save the long pilgrimage to the holy city of David and Solomon. Is the response Lalibela.

Africa, In a strange land

April 05 2012 Palm: beats of La Ciutat at dawn
For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

This is usually the visitor who chooses the city, how, the where, the when. On rare occasions, however, the city is what you said, which opens your heart unexpectedly, when not even have time to savor its secrets.

In a strange land, Spain

sea 29 2012 Masai: the myth vanished tourism
For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

Masai: el mito desvanecido por el turismo

I traveled to Africa for the first time in 2004 forced to ration their backs myths. Among them was not the least the fascination with the Masai, the warlike tribe that had kept at bay the white man until the late nineteenth century.

Africa, In a strange land