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The life of Christians in the Middle East

A bishop afraid in Uzbekistan, a priest who plucks the bells in Iran, a group of women who smoke and do not wear headscarves in Iraq, a community of respected Christians in Syria, a cathedral next to a mosque in Lebanon, un hombre que se niega a irse "de la tierra en que nació Jesús" Jordan. A great story of Christianity in the Middle East.
byMiquel Silvestre
3 March, 2011

A cross the Himalayas with a rookie driver

As we left Lhasa, Bumble each of the buttons on the dashboard to make sure what they are. Circulates 50 km / h, are continuing their sharp braking and cornering takes every invading the wrong lane, whether or not visibility. The driver of the SUV that should lead us to Kathmandu, 1.100 km across the Himalayas. I will travel through one of the most dangerous roads of the earth with a conductor trainee. I'm excited.
byRicardo Coarasa
21 February, 2011

The reincarnated brown ant

The height reduces the oxygen level and complicated movements. At first it is imperceptible, but then it will increasingly notice. The dawn of our eighth day of the Annapurna circuit is overwhelming.
byContributors
12 February, 2011

Norbulingka: the Dalai Lama's "driving school"

The summer palace of the highest spiritual authority of Buddhism, the "Jewel Park", is the antithesis of the city-fortress of the Potala. In the walled garden outside the current Dalai Lama Lhasa, Tenzin Gyatso, learned to drive in two and a Dodge Austin as his predecessor did bring in pieces across the Himalayas to the astonishment of people who lived at anchor in the Middle Ages.
byRicardo Coarasa
7 February, 2011

Jaffa: Sea Mosque

Founded as the Bible by Japheth, one of the sons of Noah, after the Flood, have gained from the pharaohs to the mythical Persian King David, Saladin, Richard the Lionheart "Napoleon. It Jaffa, the old city of Tel Aviv, one of the oldest ports in the world, boosting the minaret of the mosque of the sea on the vast blue of the Mediterranean.
byRicardo Coarasa
1 February, 2011

Himalayan bike or how to dilute the self-esteem in a nanosecond

We met him by chance on the streets of Lhasa hours before heading to Everest Base Camp. There Richard, Vitoria firefighter traveling alone. Going to make our own path, the 1.100 kilometers from the capital of Tibet in Kathmandu, but cycling. Way, be diverted to greet some friends to Sishapagma. Today I go to sleep feeling very small. Some people have a cataplines as eight thousand.
byRicardo Coarasa
31 January, 2011

Ghyaru, the valley of magical fairies and dragons

One thing I love about the mountain is that every morning you can re-breakfast with a good conscience. One gets up early and in pain, Coffee goes blind, cereal, muesly, porridge, fruit, sweet, Tibetan bread with honey and things like that ... And halfway through the day, to and re-fill to top.
byContributors
28 January, 2011

Ascent to heaven of the Annapurna

One of the most breathtaking of the mountains is his silence. Last night, at daybreak, bladder woke beset by, and ended up sitting, protected by twelve blankets, enjoy nothing and looking at the sky with binoculars little substance that I bought in Pokhara.
byContributors
21 January, 2011

Annapurna, the challenge of the mountain

"But where will they go now, if four in the afternoon and at half past six is ??night? Not create problems and sleep today. Morning walk as they please ". The man's face is tanned by the claws of the mountain, and emphasizes its argument point-blank shooting: “Además, is a blizzard ".
byContributors
14 January, 2011

The birthday party is not Tibet

The Chinese effort to celebrate in style on the establishment of the Lhasa Tibet Autonomous Region is, for the native population, something like the non-birthday of Alice in Wonderland. Pure paradox: a party where balloons only (Chinas banderolas, floats, an imposing stand in front of the Potala, slogans everywhere) and a cake with candles without blowing.
byRicardo Coarasa
10 January, 2011

Trekking in Annapurna: top, where the world ends

Climb the highest levels of the planet and walk around the slopes of the mountains of Nepal is the story of a serial nature reports that give in VOD. A trek made by ordinary people, they barely knew the high mountain, and approached the limit of his strength and dreams.
byContributors
17 December, 2010

Lhasa: the ancient Forbidden City in Tibet

"I have for the most happy who ever lived the days when, miserable with my pack on shoulder, wandered over hill and dale in the wonderful land of snow ". Sometimes, one sentence is enough to cross half the world in search of a dream landscapes. The traveler, while flying from Kathmandu to Lhasa, Tibet's capital, continues to spin these words of Alexandra David-Neel, the first European woman who managed to enter the Forbidden City, disguised as a beggar, in the distant 1924.
byRicardo Coarasa
30 September, 2010
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