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From Patagonia: Gerardo Bartolomé.

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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

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

Trip to «The Galapagos» of Patagonia

From the heights of the cliffs in the Deseado estuary watched the strange triangular stone that marked the place where the crew of the Beagle encamped in the afternoon of 1834. The view was absolutely breathtaking. (...) "No I have never seen a place apart from the world that this rocky crevice in the wide plain", Darwin wrote in his diary, and today this remains true.
byGerardo Bartolomé
11 December, 2011

The sentry on the island of the tiger

Who's in the coffin with that load these soldiers on the banks of a lake? What legacy left in the maps and the preservation of natural habitat? What is the name of the island where his remains lie? A track: still, vessels make it sound the horn three times a sign of respect as he passed his final resting place. The travel writer Gerardo Bartolomé enigmatic guide us in this trip next week.
byGerardo Bartolomé
6 November, 2011

The end of the world out

Water shipwrecks and violent storms in a corner of the world. Route of brave sailors and threatening cliffs What geographic location is recognized that in the picture? How does the Gold Route of Spanish America? What stories of tragedy and suffering hide those rocks? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome has the keys. The answers, within a week VaP..
byGerardo Bartolomé
23 Oct., 2011

The stone which averted a war

What border dispute between Argentina and Chile helped solve this stone next to the Andes? A track: bears the name of a British colonel sent by Queen Victoria to arbitrate the dispute and avoid a war between the two countries. Behind this story there is an interesting story that will within a week the writer and traveler VaP. Gerardo Bartolomé.
byGerardo Bartolomé
9 Oct., 2011

The Everest climber overcome by

He dreamed, like so many other climbers of the time, to become the first man to tread the summit of Everest, but the glory was elusive. Sorry, heart rumbo a la Patagonia. Other peaks waiting to be conquered virgin. What is the name of the British explorer and mountaineer image? What feats he starred in southern lands? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome will tell the story in next week VaP..
byGerardo Bartolomé
17 July, 2011
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