Lago Manyara: Tolkien's forests
This natural park with the highest density of elephants per square kilometer across the continent lives in the shadow of giants: Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti. An easement that, often, oblivion is paid.
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Libya, Stones that speak
We are facing some exceptional paper into rocks thousands of years that served as canvases to men who in the mists of time they shaped in their posts for posterity.
The army of "ghosts"
They await, await no identity, without papers proving that not even his name. They have one, but perhaps not yours. They were kidnapped long ago, recruited for war as children, even when they did not have enough memory. They are nothing. There are no. Expect.
Helsinki: the ugly duckling of the Baltic
Upon arrival at the railway station of Helsinki, the first thing you see is a sign in a bar announcing Aragon gastronomic week. Any trip, that is by far, giving you just stumbled upon your own neighborhood, But it needs to be as soon?
The African Macondo: it paralyzes good order
Rafael, one of the guards of the hotel, Sergeant former wartime, rests next to the water tank on the hill there Hotel. He sits, looking ahead, when the head of an enormous boa appears between their legs. A snake that is already part of the landscape of the hill, always lost in the bushes nearby and there recurrently about drinking.
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.
In defense of Mexico City
A, who loves Mexico with its strengths and weaknesses, is already a little tired of hearing anathemas on insecurity in Mexico City. One need only do a simple Google search with the words "DF insecurity". Nearly three million tickets.
A photo
Every day I have to put forward a picture in this magazine and I guess surprise many of my readers from as far. Every day I walk through a world of markets that smells of dried fish and a strange life which spreads before me.
Where I do not expect anyone
I would do the same as Elizabeth Gilbert in Bali : buy a ticket to a destination where no one expected me, not knowing where I live, or what I do, neither know nor how much is the euro, nor how it of taxis at the airport ...
Benin: nonreturn door
The Door of No Return is one of those places that transmits more by suggesting that at showing, where the silences are loud and shake until the last recesses of the soul. You can almost hear cries million captives in the waves, pleas sent as messages in bottles lost in the ocean.
The Libyan Desert Black
Sabha, the capital of Fezzan, is the starting point of all expeditions wishing to enter this remote region of the Sahara. The earliest history of this unknown territory came to light when the first European exploration began only two centuries ago.
Tallin: back to the enchanted city
Back to a place that has captivated has its risks. It's like putting a pulse to the memory. Almost always have to lose. How many great memories, idealized over time, have collapsed by a disappointing return visit?
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.
86 ways to cook a buffalo
While the first bottle we racksi2 I ask why Rohit newaris bars are much dirtier than a shoe store or a grocery store. Not knowing what to say shrugs and takes a sip of rice wine.
Near death
In two days I've seen two people shiver of panic. I thought both could die, they also. Her body trembled to impress their apparent fragility ... Nature in Africa is hard, conditions to deal with it too.
Cambridge universities beyond their
Centuries have passed in Cambridge. It is no longer time wearing dark raincoats spies or medieval streets. But some of its mystery city full of state secrets and exceptional minds still floating in the air
The crossing of alcohol in the Baltic
I was surprised to see people with trucks getting on the boat that took us to Tallinn from Helsinki. I thought you had passed away since an anonymous benefactor of mankind invented the trolley. Soon I understood everything.
The story of Mr. Matsinhe delusional
"What year are?”. Those were the first words I heard Mr Matsinhe. I went to a meeting to meet the man who would take my residency papers in Mozambique and saw a middle-aged man, about 50 years, somewhat plump and very weak voice, all leading hotel labor issues. Then listen: "What year are?"And I thought"!hopefully not the guy who's going to fix my papers!”
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?
Los Angeles in red, yellow, green and blue
As every street in every neighborhood look-city of this metropolis anonymous, we recognized the street from the house by the red tree, that made lantern halfway up and just gave us shade in the interminable pauses where we went to the door to the car we distinguish tinkling dominos pizza or were removed some the urge to smoke.
Ten bridges you cross before dying
From San Francisco to New York. Istanbul to Estonia. From Nepal to Prague. De Jaca to the jungles of Uganda. Ten bridges crossed essential. What are yours?
Zinave National Park: oblivion
The road to Mabote is red. Clay skating on our 4x4 blind curves of a road that goes into oblivion. Each meter seems the world, my world, spectra rubs and shadows. Nothing.
The mirror of sedentary traveler
Few things are most exciting that the expectation of a trip. The check, especially, when life takes you away from suitcases and airports, of adrenaline that infects a plane ticket
Libya… deep heart
The images of the pristine and refreshing Mediterranean waters would disperse as if they were an elusive mirage. Temples, amphitheatres, columns of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire are diluted by our rearview mirror and become a memorable keepsake.
