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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

Rano Kau volcano crater

Rano Kau volcano crater

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

byGerardo Bartolomé

5 April, 2019

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

byGerardo Bartolomé

1 April, 2019

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

3 April, 2014

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

16 November, 2013

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

14 August, 2013

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 ....

byGerardo Bartolomé

2 June, 2013

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

9 March, 2013

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

9 January, 2013

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

8 December, 2012

Rio de Janeiro: Paço's "paper madman"

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

17 November, 2012

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

3 November, 2012

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?

byGerardo Bartolomé

20 Oct., 2012

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

byGerardo Bartolomé

6 Oct., 2012

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

15 September, 2012

Moconá Falls: in the shadow of Iguazú

[st] That the Portuguese were an expansive people is known by all of Spain and that Brazil inherited from the…

byGerardo Bartolomé

1 September, 2012

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

2 August, 2012

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

20 July, 2012

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

1 July, 2012

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

byGerardo Bartolomé

17 June, 2012

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

2 June, 2012

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

20 May, 2012

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

5 May, 2012

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

22 April, 2012

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