The old Christmas backpack
At Christmas, my backpack and I hooked each other's backs and became adventure showmen and travel journal acrobats.
During the years of VaP's existence, several travelers have offered to write us loose stories. We can't create a profile for everyone, they are too many, but yes to recognize their work and desire to tell the world.
Under this heading there is a plural that will surely continue to expand. Thanks.
173 articles
Himba: dreams sand hairstyles
Life there goes slowly. Morning, women make up their bodies and hair with a mixture of mud, natural dyes and aromatic herbs. A master class in eroticism
Choco: Colombian tinderbox of the Pacific
Unfortunately, deep violence - mass displacement, confinements, massacres, torture, disappearances, recruitments, violations— prior to the signing of the Peace Accords has returned to the Colombian Pacific coast, one of the most beautiful in Central America.
Township: suburb tourism
Far from disappearing after the end of apartheid, the township now have more neighborhood than ever, because the "veterans" who had fled war and poverty of the "other" add Africa
Nicaragua: the sterile revolutionary sacrifice
Most of the historical Sandinista movement has moved away from Ortega and the Sandinista which people are, anti-imperialist and progressive- he wants to overthrow a corrupt and repressive government
Choco: the curse of the yellow rain
I've been here less than two hours and already grabbed my throat a sharp sting. It is the mercury of transnational mining companies to treat gold, pouring with impunity in the Atrato; Because water is a strong poison.
Cartagena de Indias: bucaneros y el “efecto Wendy”
The ancient inhabitants live "outside the walls". No pueden pagar ya ni por una habitación de la casa que antiguamente fue de sus padres. El dinero es la punta de pistola que los ha echado a patadas.
Popayan: of chiggers to “vaccines”
Today, el quebradero de cabeza de "patojos" and no patojos are no longer such as aggressive arachnids, but "vaccines" that charge drug traffickers, paramilitary, guerrillas and corrupt members of the army and police.
The other Cali: kicks in the eye at La Loma
[st] “De la urbe colonial queda muy poco; with two hours you have to spare. Así que hemos organizado…
Mexican cenotes: dive to the underworld
For the Mayans under water there was indeed an underwater population, populated with demons and servants of these demons: the twelve Gods of death or Lords of death. It is for this reason that the cenotes were for decades a source of offerings and punishments and today they continue to be the subject of archaeological research of great interest to decipher the complex pre-classic system from fossil remains.
Rohinyás: the most persecuted minority majority of the world
The rohinyás lead in Myanmar for centuries and its current population doubles Icelandic. They settle in a rich territory coveted raw materials, but they live in concentration camps and prevented from having children
New Delhi: the city that fears the air
Last year, after Diwali Hindu festival, contaminated air mixed with smoke from fireworks celebration so dangerous concentration of particles allowed for reasons of public health schools throughout the city were closed for several days.
Myanmar: claroscuros a Nobel Peace Prize
A trip to Myanmar in search of the chiaroscuro of Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize, and its silence regarding the defense of the rights of ethnic minorities in Burma
virtual tourism: the mirage of what “authentic”
I fear that the current tourism has lost interest in the world "real" and attract only that which has the greatest resemblance to what previously visited, or eaten, or drunk ... -.
Eulogy travel guide
The guide can be found, sometimes, traveler. A good guide may depend, sometimes, Pleasure pass to tragedy. I'm not exaggerating.
A cat in the Maghreb: nostalgia markets
Regrettably, markets life have begun to sink in superstores, authentic clones scattered planet. Cancer knows no boundaries globalization.
A meeting in Madrid and for travelers
The IATI Conference of the great trips returns to Madrid on days 1 and 2 April, to the auditorium of the IES Beatriz Galindo. As in the four previous editions in this city, will bring the attendees the experience of globetrotters who have made sensational trips, of several months or years by bicycle, Motorcycle, and auto stop, by public transport, solo, a couple, with his kids…
Africa on the move
Africa with which I have stayed is a woman that crosses the continent to open land or along roads and sidewalks, if any,. Always with a pack-and the baby if it has- to the back or on the head. Always alone. Always silent. The millennial silence of hunger and death.
Thirty-six hours without fear in Nagorno Karabakh (II)
Three spirited soldiers circumvent all my questions. Farewell is imposed when there is nothing more to tell. Everybody here seems perfectly trained not to talk about war.
Thirty-six hours without fear in Nagorno Karabakh (In)
Three years in a row I tried to enter Nagorno Karabakh. Last spring I finally got it. I was short and very curious. I wanted to know that small province of the South Caucasus between Azerbaijan and Armenia. And know of his war.
Recorrido por las iglesias desconsagradas de Nápoles
Estos y muchos otros lugares encerrados en las angostas travesías de Nápoles siguen alimentando las fantasias y las creencias populares desde siglos. Sitios que celan un pasado misterioso e insondable hecho de personajes legendarios, antiguas maldiciones, cerimonias esotéricas, logias masónicas y rituales supersticiosos.
Sarajevo route
Sarajevo is even more attractive at night: the bars are full and everywhere you smell the sweet perfume of the hookah and drink the Bosanka Kafa (bosnian coffee) in the fidzani, the cups of turkish origin. Coffee is the national drink in Bosnia: in 1571, one hundred years before London or Paris, Sarajevo was one of the first cities in Europe with premises for the purchase and consumption of coffee.
Venezuelan Elections: the “count” del panadero
“This is a dictatorship, brother", continues the man. “I think that for being like this talking, if a military man passes by, if he wants, he will take me prisoner. That's why I had to change, if not, this is a wreck... see this little bottle, me ha costado 80 bolívares, no hace mucho costaba tan sólo 5 bolívares.”
Votes or lead in Venezuela
this has only begun. From today we will know if the change comes or, on the contrary, everything will stay the same, but more expensive. We will know if in Venezuela the votes or the lead are worth more.
