15 VAP years

VaP was born in January 2010. These are some of the best reports we have published during this long career.

7 articles

A trip to the Samarcanda de Rui G. Clavijo

(...) I tell him I am only interested in something very specific, a ghost. "Agree", accepts the challenge. "I look for traces of a Spanish ambassador who came here in the fifteenth century" loose. "I seek the spectrum of Gonzalez de Clavijo".

byMiquel Silvestre

31 May, 2025

The world at the end of the world

These are the places where I felt an intense and exhilarating sense of freedom. I never wanted to conquer, they who have conquered me.

bySebastián Álvaro

13 March, 2025

The bird island and killing of the Spanish

He ended the day and ended our visit to the Peninsula Valdes. Before we left we decided to stop in front of the Bird Island to catch the last rays of sun and take pictures of the chapel there remembers an old Spanish settlement. By Gerardo BARTHOLOMEW.

byGerardo Bartolomé

28 February, 2025

Samoa: Manono circular time

Manono is small, Round, nice, as pure circular flip walking sounds conclusive cycle, a closed course, they become actions and repeated as the notion of time in East. Speaking of Manono in this way comes to mind unusually Platero.

byLaura Berdejo

10 February, 2025

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.

byJuan Ramon Morales

26 January, 2025

The victorious Cairo

Now that we've almost burned and Cairo Midan Tahir Square I remember many times I've walked the city, without doubt one of the most exciting cities in the world and undisputed and indisputable capital of Islamic civilization.

byJavier Reverte

20 January, 2025

Lhatse: a violinist in the trash

In travel, as in life, you can see the glass half full or half empty. Landscapes abominable redeemed by a look, idyllic sunsets besieged by mosquitoes, exciting adventures that end in a gazebo with poolside snack bar ... Is in our hands, almost always, select and reset other memories. Lhatse, poblachón a Tibetan, greets us with heaps of rubbish. But, from that huge amount of filth, comes an unforgettable violinist. By Ricardo COARASA.

byRicardo Coarasa

18 December, 2024

Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
Of the ruins of the empires: Asia's adjustment with European colonialism	9,45/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,40/10
"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
"Pilgrims of beauty": Italy and Greece Bacanal	9,20/10
"Travel with Charley": Raw portrait of the US 60	9,05/10
Winter notes on summer impressions: Dostoevsky in front of the mirror	8,90/10
The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
Strengthen the foundation: Africa raises its voice	8,15/10
My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country	6,25/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10