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
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"Guide" to eating on the streets of Hanoi
Eating on the street is much more than just "eat". It is an experience for all senses. No it is calle solo restaurant, but to break hierarchies, putting all level, sitting side by side next to people who do not know. It is a world to see and be seen.
From Ethiopia to Uganda: trip to the Nile Sources (II)
The descent to the shore is flanked by stands selling souvenirs to tourists. Down country music sounds. From the bars hang banners Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester, of Milan ... The global village has arrived, also, the mythical Nile Sources.
Tourist in Venice or not?
How often we, pro travelers, after crossing miles of desert, starve, cold, suffer illness or "bugs", We ended up being nothing more than "Tourist" for the first location we have found. Not very flattering but quite realistic.
The day you stop seeing the sea…
Everything is sea, as when under the beach and helped the fishermen to pull nets laying morning (something I do not do much for me as I approach stop pulling the net while they encourage me to continue). Groups of women and children for an hour dragging eternal network, weighing as the ocean and brings small fish are eaten by dozens of people who live near them without.
Libya… The Way We Were
Suddenly ... a big bang. Libya, we had seduced from the first time that the wheels of our 4x4 bitten the sand and our boots trod ghost towns of the past ... closes a violent. It begins a bloody civil war against the dictator Gaddafi.
Oman, Osama chatting in the keystone
An arid landscape, itself in the Arabian Peninsula, swallows any hint of plant or animal life, and Gulf waters that bathe these shores, within walking distance changing hands to become the Gulf of Oman.
From Ethiopia to Uganda: trip to the Nile Sources (In)
Few places throughout history have so strongly attracted the imagination of geographers, emperors and explorers like Nile Sources. The secret of the birth of the great African river head brought mankind for 2.000 years.
The African Macondo: agitators hippo queue
“Ahhhh. And how they get no rain?”, asked with some curiosity before hearing a response that if I had been given a hundred thousand opportunities to give it even had approached me. "Waving queues hippos with their hands, skyward, and prevent rain ", I emphatically explained.
What did you think Boston? …beautiful and very European
Strolling through the streets thought a piece of Europe also crossed the Atlantic entrepreneurs accompanying illusions of those families of the early English emigrants s.XVII. Pilgrims who came to seek better fortune in a land full of opportunities that christened the New England.
The Teide walk: my sunrise on the roof of Spain (II)
The first thing you see when you reach the top is a little mouse snaking through the rocks. Few titanic tasks I can imagine that this rodent food every day buscándose 3.717,98 meters.
The African Macondo: the sand-eating
"In the market for selling on sand 25 MZN (70 cents). They also soap and soup ". "And do you prefer the chicken or fish soup?”, asked wryly. "That's very expensive, I have no money "
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.
The Teide walk: my sunrise on the roof of Spain (In)
Leaving the beach hotel over 30 degrees with a backpack and hiking clothes I feel like in a swimsuit by Navacerrada pasease midwinter.
Sri Lanka: eating tea on the train
I've eaten nuts, two coffees, nibbled a bit of pineapple and spicy tuna swallowed a dumpling and potato. I'm fat and happy. We continue to gain height, and forest clearing will, giving way to the tea fields. Waterfalls, women collecting leaves, white factories, tiny villages and Hindu temples.
The market for stolen Maputo
It's nine o'clock, I have not had coffee yet, and I just found out last night that I have stolen the rearview mirror and car headlights. It's nine in the morning and another guy threatens to fuck more plaque on your plate that formalizes robberies.
The most beautiful mountain lakes in the Pyrenees
From afar, tears of the mountains seem. Closer, their presence is enhanced peaks and surrounded by hills. The ibones, name that is used to refer to the Aragonese Pyrenees mountain lakes, exude peace and are featured in some of the most beautiful postcards of the Pyrenean.
"My trip to North Cape"
North Cape is a legendary destination for any motorist. For me, I've come to Cape Town motorcycle, was almost a personal obligation to reach the northernmost point of Europe.
Life on the road
A giraffe crossing the road between cars. One of the young accelerated more than their legs and body plummeted on the asphalt in front of another vehicle. For a moment it seemed dead. His mother, while, nervosa is shaking the bushes
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…
Nenets herders, the last nomads of Siberia
As the helicopter that will take us back is about, in a sea of ??reindeer, pastors dismantle the chums and leave without saying goodbye. The word "goodbye" makes no sense for them, and "thank you". In this world nothing is hard and harsh calls, everything belongs to everyone and is dismissed because the security of the reunion is general for all.
Hailstorm in Indian
A medio camino, suddenly, the sky was dull, the wind hit with more force and began unloading a fierce hailstorm. Unexpected time, que hacía años que allí no sucedía, and the horizon became an intense palette. The sea is green and the sky turned dark gray
Pony: Contador waiting
He had an outstanding debt in VAP and now finally gives me the opportunity of paying. Within a week, the Tour of Spain, front with Alberto Contador, Jaca reaches. Now or never. Here are my recommendations for making the most of "the Pearl of the Pyrenees"
Fort Dauphine: Paradise Lost castaway Drury
Write about Madagascar and Fort Dauphine let alone how to do it and not to mention about Trinidad Cuba. Its fascinating and unknown history puts this place on the map a few historians and lovers of tales of pirates, buccaneers and naúgrafos.
