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Mar 28 2011 Shigatse: and finally… ¡A photo of the Dalai Lama!

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

¿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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Mar 21 2011 Other's eyes

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

It is a question with a thousand faces. On the road, in gutters, in their fields, about transistor, in the shade of a tree, in a crowded bus, in a tractor trailer, among the stalls of a market. The look of the other surprises you at every step, sometimes fleeting, other infinite. Zarandea, restless, softens, forces you to think, as. It happens that, when we are so far from home, the other is us.

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Mar 14 2011 Gyantse: the strength of the brave with no luck

For: Ricardo Coarasa

From the valley of Nyang-chu, the once mighty fortress of Gyantse seems a maiden defiled, a half-finished decoration. Once up, with the plateau at our feet as far as the eye can see, one fully understands the strategic value of this crossroads between China and India where the Tibetans fought in 1904 the last battle before limping before the British invasion.

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Mar 07 2011 The most impressive stupa of Tibet

For: Ricardo Coarasa

On the Tibetan city of Gyantse some capricious god one day due to launch a curse. His two great treasures, a monastery and a fortress, were destroyed without mercy. But as the gods crowded but not drown, at least it is one of the most impressive stupas (funerary monuments) Tibet.

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Feb 27 2011 Neither does a reincarnation ends meet
For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

Why is the female reincarnation of Tibet's most famous finishes in the pay of the Chinese Government? Is it possible to use his "secret forces" to attract men? Find the answers to these and other questions in this new stage of a journey through Tibet.

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Feb 21 2011 A cross the Himalayas with a rookie driver
For: Ricardo Coarasa

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.

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Feb 14 2011 Tibet: in the bowels of the Potala
For: Ricardo Coarasa

Top of the buttresses that support the Potala to plunge into the heart of the former winter palace of the Dalai Lama is like crossing the drawbridge of one of those castles of Amadis of Gaul that lit the holy madness of Don Quixote our universal.

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