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From Amman to Petra: the treasure of the Nabataeans

Leaving the capital is beginning to breathe a calm air, enigmatic country, of sand people, biblical history, unknown legend. I think nobody can ever imagine what it is without having seen Petra.

byMayte Touch

13 May, 2012

Dodging rocks

Miquel Silvestre, the first in the Philippines

It has become the first Spanish man to reach the Asian archipelago by land from Spain, culminating in the first part of the Route of the Forgotten Scouts to meet at a place in the history of Spain and some of its most illustrious travelers.

byvap

12 May, 2012

Beyond the Golden Gate: ruta for San Francisco

It is not always easy to live with icons. They are a perfect postcard that often ruins the perception of the environment, if not diluted. San Francisco is the Golden Gate to the same extent that Moscow is the Kremlin or the Eiffel Tower Paris, but none of these cities runs in myth fueled by tourism catalog.

byRicardo Coarasa

11 May, 2012

Sumatra: the downpour of God

I'm trapped and there's nobody to help me. I have to hurry because the bike without lights, if a truck or a motorcycle up the hill too fast can overwhelm us

byMiquel Silvestre

10 May, 2012

Hawaii, the battle of fire and water

Scientists have observed, and official records of the â € € They note œRecord Guinnessâ, the volcano Mauna Kea n, and Everest, is with its 10205 meters the mountain ± a more s highest of all

byNacho Melero

9 May, 2012

Malawi: the lake of stars

I hear the voices of a dozens of people who sing, sing on the lake. Her voice has the sound of African songs, melancholy, sad. They sing with the stomach rather than the throat. I turn my eyes ahead, the sun disappears. One of the most beautiful sunsets I have referred in my life.

byJavier Brandoli

8 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

Andasibe: Jurassic forest SOS

We enter a land of vines and creepers, of giant ferns and large, flat mushrooms attached to trees, stout and proud. You could feel the serenity of the forest.

byMayte Touch

4 May, 2012

Simien: between the bleeding heart baboons

Come to the mountains of Simien, one of the most fascinating places in Africa, in search of Gelada baboons (in Amharic, the local language, "Bleeding hearts"), a species which is found only in these places above Ethiopians 3.000 meters.

byRicardo Coarasa

3 May, 2012

Malawi: the death of President, police corruption

We went to Malawi the day who had just died its corrupt president. Chronicle of a few hours where we were robbed at the border and tried in another policing. An uprising threatens the country's power struggle.

byJavier Brandoli

1 May, 2012

Madagascar: radiograph of sentimental Antananarivo

Madagascar, a great and exciting red island in the Indian Ocean, looks back to Africa for not feeling entirely African, surrounded by a warm sea that caresses its endless white sandy shores. In the center of the island, more than 1.500 meters, is its chaotic capital, Antananarivo.

byMayte Touch

28 April, 2012

Dodging rocks

Turn around the world: ¿Impress or learn?

Public exposure is not worth it if it means losing sight of what I believe to be the true sense of a great trip: return wiser and changed. Better return.

byMiquel Silvestre

27 April, 2012

Bethlehem: the bold splendor of empire

Belém is enjoyed walking through the streets, always with tourists and travelers in the footsteps of the past, reveling in his famous pastry and understanding the significance of the places visited. Huge open spaces characterize the locality, which is now a neighborhood of Lisbon.

byEduardo De Winter

25 April, 2012

Tete: the washerwomen of the Zambezi

Contemplate a striking picture: dozens of women, some half-naked, wash their clothes and bodies in the river. They do the routine every morning he goes to a must, the washing of clothes and his body to the gaze of the absent other.

byJavier Brandoli

24 April, 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

Tasmanian experience

I always had a tendency to confuse Tasmania with Transylvania, to hell with Dracula and doubt if both were real or not. Tasmania is real, I promise, Pero Transylvania no housing if. I have not been yet.

byLaura Berdejo

20 April, 2012

Tlaxcala: forbidden to remember Cortés

In few cities is as revealing a statue of his idiosyncrasies as in Tlaxcala. His ancestors were allied with Cortes to overturn the Aztec hegemony, but the only monument that remembers what happened is a statue of Xicotencatl "Young", the son of the cacique who rebelled against the Conqueror and was hanged for it.

byRicardo Coarasa

19 April, 2012

Gorongosa: the burden of elephants

The whole herd creates a perfect circle to protect their young. As if obeying a military order adopting a perfect figure of defense. It is one of the most beautiful moments I have lived in African safaris. Everything has a wild harmony.

byJavier Brandoli

17 April, 2012

Thailand: loneliness and pages of rubber

I like to travel by travel, I like traveling to some. Travel to Tell. That makes my trip a special. It's what builds my excitement and allowing me to spend the days alone but not lonely one.

byMiquel Silvestre

13 April, 2012

Lalibela: Black Jerusalem king bee

This marvelous city where look up is to look down, where the land seems to have engulfed the work of man in an angry outburst, steeped in history and myths in equal. Ethiopia, nation among nations, dreamed of one day with an African Jerusalem Christians to save the long pilgrimage to the holy city of David and Solomon. Is the response Lalibela.

byRicardo Coarasa

12 April, 2012

Through the Sinai by camel

To summarize nearly four days of mapping query, misunderstandings, anger, purchase of water tanks that never gets to see and many dollars spent on flour and fodder for camels, delivery of biblical wells Khudra Ain, the "green water", good name for the well, really ..... to the monastery of St. Catherine and Mount Sinai, with a friendly Bedu who never stops laughing and does not speak any English

byJuan Ramon Morales

11 April, 2012

Chong Oene: camping on a deserted beach

Suddenly some fishermen contemplate leaving the vegetation or the distance two women who collect shells and realize that nothing is empty at this location.

byJavier Brandoli

10 April, 2012

Humahuaca: goodbye to the dusty villages of the highlands

He missed and forgotten that people remembered overpost have visited so long ago. But everything had changed so much or was my memory that I was playing a trick?

byGerardo Bartolomé

7 April, 2012

Father Lachaise: I Vecino Jim Morrison

If there is a destination that deserves a place of honor in the obituary tourism and pilgrimage to Mecca groupies of shrouds, that is none other than the cemetery of Pere Lachaise and the jewel in its crown, The tumba of James William Morrison.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

6 April, 2012

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

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