Rano Kau: Volcano bird men
The Rano Kau volcano is the most spectacular Easter. Most striking is its immense crater of a kilometer in diameter within which lies an amazing lagoon with floating islands
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The four challenges of the Rapa Nui people
We arrived looking for sun and relaxation, but that was stronger than our desire to understand the intriguing past of this enigmatic island. And Anakena was where this story began with the arrival of the first thousand years ago Ariki
Machu Picchu: Empire Stone
The view of the city surrounded by impressive and covered by dense jungle hills slopes can not be described with simple words. Before trying to do it, I prefer to incite the reader to visit this magical place.
In the cradle of Patagonia
I looked at that plateau. I could not believe that there had been born in Patagonia. Sure ... I owe an explanation to the reader. Patagonia was born there but the myth of Patagonia as a wild and mysterious. I was in Puerto San Julian in the search, as always, of stories, anecdotes and wild. There, against the infinite blue of the Atlantic, are given both: history and nature.
Marble chapel and the theft of River Phoenix
Over 150 years, Argentina and Chile fought the Andes of Patagonia. Complaints, charges, traps and even threats were used on dozens of issues in dispute. Along with my wife went to visit one of the most controversial points of this frontier.
Puerto Hambre: Here was Spain
It seems incredible that more than 400 years in the South American continent boundary has installed a Spanish colony. Weeks or months of perilous navigation separating it from any other population from which supplies could. And thought no wonder that the place has become <strong>Puerto Hambre</strong>, neither more nor less than because the settlers died from hunger that ....
Chapel Narbonne: the oldest house in Uruguay
One thing caught my attention: English naturalist claimed to have slept in a large house that was about a hundred years old when he passed by the place. Rare, because for the early eighteenth century had hardly Uruguay population and ranches of the time were of adobe.
Plaza de Mayo: Do not cry for me Argentina
I stood in the center of the square, interested in how the place had changed little over those 400 years. I smiled when I remembered the newsprint happened José Moreno Carbonero, the painter's famous painting.
Uribelarrea: Anatomy of the pampas
It is close to Buenos Aires, has nice restaurants and lots of history to see and feel, ideal for a getaway. It is a place that reflects very well what happened in the pampas of Argentina.
Rio de Janeiro: the “Crazy paper” the Paço
Was using a very short trip to Rio de Janeiro to follow one of my favorite pastimes: compare an old drawing with the current reality. In my hands was a copy of the engraving artist Beagle, Augustus Earle, performed in 1833.
The valley of death
"Rain in the desert? It can not be much ", thought. We travel. Maybe I should have worried when we passed a place where the water had been part of the way. We travel.
Punta del Este: history hiding tourist beaches
Every year, when I go to Buenos Aires, I do it with a place in mind to visit in the next opportunity. Who knew that among many vacationers can find this story?
Salvador: search the Street impatient Sloth
Something out of the way and almost desperate helplessness I found the drawing view of Darwin. There the slaves earned about offering real bear who could afford, sloths
Patagonia: the mystery of the caves of the hands
What catches the attention of the walls of the huge overhang are hands. Hundreds of hands painted on the walls seem to want to draw the attention of visitors. As voices of a distant past world that we want to remember that they were there.
Moconá Falls: in the shadow of Iguazú
[st] Que los portugueses fueron un pueblo expansivo lo sabe toda España y que Brasil heredó de los…
Chimborazo Quilotoa: But the Earth is round?
French geographers discussed their knowledge of the world. What shape was the planet? Was it round the flat? Expeditions were organized. A cercana North Pole, in Scandinavian Lapland, and one to Ecuador, in the heart of the Spanish colonies.
Volcano Copahue: the smoking crater and ice cream
This strange gap, the vital hot geothermal activity, steams and bubbles as if it were a vision of hell. But there was more. Bordering the west side of the crater, a thick plate of glacier ice reminded us we were almost 3.000 thousand feet.
Chiloé: the last bastion of Spain
He remained loyal to Spain until 1826, when Chile, Argentina and other South American countries had declared their independence several years ago. When you get to visit Ancud strong. There we saw the batteries of cannons still pointing to the sea, as to defy any ship that tried to attack a fool.
Crossing the Andes: the route of General San Martin
Had chosen this route because it was one of those chosen by the army of General San Martin when he crossed the Andes to seek freedom for Chile during the wars of independence
Navigating the Napo River: Amazon at risk
The Amazon conjures images of danger and adventure in the mind of any traveler, a difficult challenge to avoid. One imagines a dense jungle to beyond the horizon, strange animals, dangerous insects, unknown fever and aboriginal tribes fleeing from civilization.
Blue: reflections of Paris in the Pampa Argentina
The town had been the seat of the famous tribe of the Cacique Catriel. (...) The land was cheap, the risk was high, but the chances were high. Blue was only suitable territory for bold.
Paraty, the forgotten city
The village is almost halfway to two major cities: Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Today it seems incredible to think that, 400 years back, This village could dream of competing with them, but it was.
Gulf of Corcovado: sailing between volcanoes
At first the white mist enveloped us without our being able to see anything, but we began to see the peaks of the hills protruding from between the low coastal clouds. Browse area allows for a spectacular view of the volcanoes.
Humahuaca: goodbye to the dusty villages of the highlands
He missed and forgotten that people remembered overpost have visited so long ago. But everything had changed so much or was my memory that I was playing a trick?
