A few months in New York: JUICE AND GUARD OF THE BIG APPLE
Encounters and disagreements with New York
BA in Journalism and History, has lived in France, Bolivia and Niger and traveled more than 50 countries. Still deciding whether Mom wants more (Africa) or Dad (South America).
Unrepentant collector of curious characters, lucky chances and moments unforgettable voyage gives, inveterate nostalgia would have would have liked to get to almost anywhere 30 years before.
If, as Neruda said slowly dies who does not travel, in the very effort to cheat death if you find him at his word asomáis.
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Bolivia: Madidi park and the secret of Toromonas
The incredible history of the disappearance of the Norwegian Lars Hafsjold
Scarlett Johanson and the Pyramids of Gizah
We are not here just to play the Indiana Jones, we also do foreigner things like everyone else. After all the holidays are over, we are tired and nostalgic and everything is the same to us. To the trip you have to give what is from the trip and to Instagram what is from Instagram...
Cancun: life is now
Because I am sorry, but those of us who write in Vap also do these things. The adventure and the dust is all a farce and in reality we are some beach tourists. But in this damn city-highway drill they have hidden the sea and they don't plan to release it so easily until you loosen a few dollars as a ransom.
Mister Tourist en el país de los persas. Crónicas de Irán (II)
Las rinoplastias están causando furor en el país desde hace un par de años, en especial entre la clase media alta. Por apenas mil euros, eliges una nariz a la carta que en el caso de la mayoría de chicas suele ser la misma, larga y rectísima para realzar las facciones. “En Irán las chicas no podemos mostrar mucho de nosotras, así que lo que puede verse, queremos que esté perfecto”, confiesa Neda.
Mister Tourist en el país de los persas. Crónicas de Irán (In)
Disparan unos contra otros, mothers, uncles, sobrinos… incluso a sus propios hijos. Disparan abuelitos con bastón, y mujeres ataviadas con hiyab, negrísimas como cuervos. Desenfundan sus móviles y pasean entusiasmados con sus palos selfies al hombro. If you're not careful the Iranians shoot at you, while they hug you smiling and ask you to look at the little bird. The selfie revolution has come to the country to stay and among the ruins of Persepolis a shooting blaze rages.
Paraguay: the crucified of the happiest country in the world
So more than twenty workers with their families took wood and nails and instead of going up to Golgotha ??they settled in a room next to the Ministry of Labor with their wrists pierced and ready to maintain the protest until they were readmitted. Since then the area lives in a constant pilgrimage state; media, police, medical, priests and citizens who stop by just in case a miracle happens.
The Paraguayan Chaco, Mennonites and Ayoreos
"Plus, many more, although most are sick. The shamans forbade them to eat deer meat and now they only eat honey, also from some anteater, they are slow and easy to catch, "he says, while smilingly rubbing his belly.
The lost city of the Tayrona
The Frenchman, for example, recalls that he recently read somewhere a theory based on the fact that the Spanish presence decisively increased the level of aggressiveness on the continent., spread like a virus and caused even more atrocities among indigenous people. The two Swiss seem delighted with this explanation and relate their recent visit to the Potosí mines and how much they were impressed by the cruelty that existed in that place.. The Belgian who inexplicably seems to have forgotten the existence of a certain Leopold
Ben Gurion airport, Murphy's lair
The cursed seal of Guinea Bissau causes fear among the staff again and this time they have also discovered on the back page that of Mali. Once again, a council that looks like the Spanish Geographical Society is meeting, They try to determine if they are countries that can threaten national security.
Charlie Hebdo and bougainvillea
Internet said they were well and safe, Some residents of the city were able to alert them, in time to take refuge with other Christians in the military barracks in the city, that the worst was over in a few days and could take a plane bound for Togo, A Burkina that a Benin. During the following days the people of the city was dedicated to bring food and save some belongings of the Mission.
La Guajira and the disappeared Spanish
¿Español?, Like the other boy?, The one who disappeared ? Nothing has to happen, it is a quiet place if you are not looking for problems, but Spanish ... those Indians are spiteful.
A house in La Paz
Panties and bras lamps bloomed like mushrooms, while the plants took possession of the upstairs, They climbed the walls and spilled down the stairs in a dull noise like Amazon symphony. startled, He charged and shot out, before a jaguar come out from under the couch.
The crazy story of zebras La Paz
When I was considering a dignified exit, or the ability to call the official to say he was sick and on my second day, a pair of shadows suddenly attacked me from behind and grabbed me by the armpits. - "Go, which lacked, express kidnapping hangover breakfast!
Senegal: at the end I take a smile
[st] She danced alone, and the intermittent light of the torches revealed flashes of its concentrated face and the…
Sarajevo: in the footsteps of war
First are the mountains. Dark, wolfish ripples, sprinkled with a trail of snow in the middle of April. There is still something evil in those sentinels who eagerly watch the bottom of the valley. Patient and attentive as if waiting for something and, for a moment you can almost understand...
To me I do like Paris
Paris is not a cold city, face and soulless, etc.. Strolling through the streets and catch Stendhal syndrome as one who grabs a cold comes absolutely free. Part of the charm of this city lies in those cold and miserable bites that gives you February while you relames to looking into the brasseries and then go to eat greasy fried potatoes at any kebab.
Lamido endless copulation, the elder 120 years
[st] "Of course it's easy, There is only Allah and you want to help a little ",…
Ouagadogou and shooting stars
The driver brakes suddenly, all senses alert. Curfew, curfew!, screams as he turns. But what makes? The rumor sounds dangerously close and I can now identify the noise Shots!
The last nomads of the Sahel II: "School"
One day Malam and Gado's father and uncle decided to open the first Riskoi school project nomadic Sallaga, scarce resources between different clans mustered four months' salary of a teacher and built a roof under which students garrison ten days of rain a year that gives Sahel in Niger.
The last nomads of the Sahel (1): Riskoi
Sometimes you find that you track Aboca shadows, impossible in the past persecution, in every place where I land I seek a reality that vanished fifty years earlier. However I am convinced that no place can ever provoke the same impression that I suffered in those first hours of Tanout spurred by paranoia and fear.
Three African stories
He tells me his travels in Africa from the Congo to Angola. Martin is an excellent conversationalist and jumps from one topic to another with the agility and decision of a tightrope, puts a delicacy among arrebatártelo lips quickly and get another rabbit out of the hat even more fat and succulent.
Cameroon: Waza giraffes
And here we are, I've spent a paste, which had accumulated the previous weeks, with tiny portions of grilled chicken and sleeping on buses for not catching hotels. I hit game of roulette, all red, expected Waza Park.
Getting to Africa: Niger
er the hippos that are in the Niger River on the outskirts of the city? Ugh complicated, gasoline has hiked, I can not get a picture 100 EUR! On the brink of insanity, faltered, I beg leave cockroaches company not too greedy and wishing me a good firing stroke.
