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may 30 2011 Zhangmu: the deconstruction of the Adventurer

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

Zhangmu: la deconstrucción del aventurero

Zhangmu, on the border with Nepal, is a motley bunch of houses hanging from a cliff in thick vegetation where the monsoons wreak havoc. Landslides are common this time of year and, inevitably, every so often a piece of people rushing downhill, toward the stream, swallowed by the mountain.. By Ricardo COARASA.

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may 23 2011 Tingri: paradise of desolation

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

The target must have outstanding accounts with Tingri, the last stop in Tibet deep before reaching the border with Nepal. Otherwise it is understood that the spray has so stark grief of. Everywhere you look, the same uneasiness, identical discouragement. The future only reaches as far as the eye: a dusty track that looks like a sentence. Whither flee? I did not take pictures. It did not take.

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may 16 2011 Rongbuk: when night falls

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

And Rongbuk, sparkling eyes of wild dogs stalk the tourist who ventures into the dark; be a lens is a black magic show; any comistrajo, a delicacy and sleep, possible effort. Hundreds of empty beer bottles-a 5.000 meters, fortunately, also gives drink to the thirsty- clump together forming a wall with the best views of the world: a sunrise on Everest.

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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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April 07 2011 Tashilumpo: Giant Buddha Rats
For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

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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sea 28 2011 Shigatse: and finally… ¡A photo of the Dalai Lama!
For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

Shigatse: y por fin… ¡una foto del Dalai Lama!

¿We traveled to see it to be? Are we looking for destinations on the map or even just to get to know? On any trip, inevitably be in places you do not see or view sites that, last time, seems you've never been. On my way to the slopes of Everest, Shigatse was a couple of nights on the road map, a monastery, Tashilunpo the, and a fort in ruins guarded by wild dogs.

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