The last place on earth: Borneo Jungle
A sacred mountain, a jungle and its secrets
Juan Ramon, tireless traveler and professional photographer, is a clear example of a life dedicated and committed to travel and adventure. Whether touring the Afghan Hindu Kush the deserts of Africa, years of wandering in the Himalayas, Indonesia and East Africa guiding groups, making incredible images kilometers and setting, Juanra have made an icon in the world of travel in Spain John is director of the agency Eland Expeditions, Fellow de la Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) and member of the American Alpine Club.
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Lebanon: Shadow of Baalbek
A militiaman of not more than 15 years we anxiously look, the submachine gun over his shoulder and a cigarette dangling from his lips, not knowing what to do. We stared in silence, tense, waiting for something, I do not know which. In these cases, as always, is the most absurd coincidence that breaks the ice, when your phone rings Barca anthem.
Siwa: Alexander's loneliness
The Oracle room is just a small room with no ceiling no more than 40 square meters. Thinking it's more than possible that this small room became pharaohs, Roman emperors, some of the greatest generals of history and the very Alejandro is, simply, incredible, and the feeling of living in your skin the weight of all those people over the centuries can almost feel.
A walk through the bowels of Istanbul
Our partner throws a flare and lights another, partly illuminating the void, an immense half flooded room with vaulted ceiling studded. Some walls can see growths resulting from dampness on what seem very rough inscriptions. We are under the Hippodrome, next to the Palace, and we have traveled a path, formerly adapted to communicate both places or to facilitate the escape from them ...
Tazara: on-board copper
The convoy stops are eternal and give us time to tour wagons. The next to ours is like a refugee camp, people cooking in the ground, a pair of canvas stretched under which a child a few months slumbers between the tremendous din of his mother talking loudly and radios with music blaring.
Travel by dhow to Zanzibar: the full moon…
I give up my life for a vague dream awakened in pages read in volumes of youthful adventures, travel books, Navigation trials. And now just wait for the moon and tides make it possible to lift the hulls of 10 meters of Jahazi, beached on the sand of Africa, without rigging or covered, as abandoned tortoise shells.
Tourist in Venice or not?
How often we, pro travelers, after crossing miles of desert, starve, cold, suffer illness or "bugs", We ended up being nothing more than "Tourist" for the first location we have found. Not very flattering but quite realistic.
Nenets herders, the last nomads of Siberia
As the helicopter that will take us back is about, in a sea of ??reindeer, pastors dismantle the chums and leave without saying goodbye. The word "goodbye" makes no sense for them, and "thank you". In this world nothing is hard and harsh calls, everything belongs to everyone and is dismissed because the security of the reunion is general for all.
Nyuru, Sacred Mountain of circumcision
During that time, applicants to "dwell" are in a no man's land where almost anything goes, vacated marching shoulder the responsibilities of adults in the group. Free Sex, raids and hunting, "Mischief" considered normal prior to the entry through the acute pain in a final stage in their lives.
Through the Sinai by camel
To summarize nearly four days of mapping query, misunderstandings, anger, purchase of water tanks that never gets to see and many dollars spent on flour and fodder for camels, delivery of biblical wells Khudra Ain, the "green water", good name for the well, really ..... to the monastery of St. Catherine and Mount Sinai, with a friendly Bedu who never stops laughing and does not speak any English
Smell of feet on the slopes of K-2
And there, one of the highlights of my traveling life more intense, rises between the red and black clouds the great pyramid of K2. A childhood dream fulfilled in a picture from a story about Kipling
Kirgizstan: the persecution of the wolf from the mountains
Move to step through the valley of Karkara, border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan today, a limit imposed by Stalin to the same people. The sky is leaden and the snow is announced in the cold wind hit us back. The horses are impatient and Ari, my guide, with them.
Mustang: the last Himalayan kingdom
"El anciano nos observa mientras sorbemos nuestro té. A silhouette sad, with, Chartered over the years and, I temo, almost blind. Mustang is the king of, the mythical kingdom of Lo, access to the Tibetan plateau from India, tierra de comerciantes y bandidos".
Camel Road Gates Sahara
"Llevamos 4 running days. Not hot, Contrary to what most thought. The light reverberates on mica lining the road, where more than one occasion the rounded forms of the abundant fossils or arrowheads are more unreal the way in which we operate under the slow pace of camels, as in a dream"
Mountains of Pakistan: in the land of infidels
Surrounded by a sea of ??Muslim peoples for centuries, wine, sexual freedom of their women and a very special way of understanding life is a surprise in this region known for its fanaticism and fugitives from legend that until recently have traveled, allegedly, Osama Bin Laden como, Without going any further.
Lago Turkana: towards the Jade Sea
(...) Going up a wall of lava is opening before them a surreal scene. A huge expanse of water, verde jade, hit by a steady wind and surrounded by small volcanoes. Teleki and Von Hohnel completed well, for European cartographers, the map of the African Great Lakes with the farthest, inaccessible and mysterious of all, from Lake Turkana.
