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Carnival in Rio: murder in the Sambadrome of Lewis Carroll

Not what it would feel when he met Alice Rabbit stressed that in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll imagined, but compared to the outskirts of the Sambadrome be sure that the rabbit meat from resort

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

19 February, 2012

Kirgizstan: the persecution of the wolf from the mountains

Move to step through the valley of Karkara, border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan today, a limit imposed by Stalin to the same people. The sky is leaden and the snow is announced in the cold wind hit us back. The horses are impatient and Ari, my guide, with them.

byJuan Ramon Morales

18 February, 2012

Unknown by Jaén (III): looking for Jorge Manrique

Segura de la Sierra is traversed with bated breath, walking its slopes between paved corners, chasing our shadows on the whitewashed walls of streets that twist

byRicardo Coarasa

16 February, 2012

A route through the charming towns of Segovia

Historical towns that retain a spectacular heritage and delicious cuisine. A simple route, easy to do to spend a day or a weekend, in a rural Spain to discover which preserves its past. Enjoy a path of the senses.

byJavier Brandoli

14 February, 2012

Ghosts of the Colony

How many times had passed through Cologne? No less than fifteen. It is almost mandatory step for all Argentines, in summer, look for the white beaches of Uruguay. By ferry crosses the sea of ??fresh water called Rio de la Plata and this prevents a return of 400 km.

byGerardo Bartolomé

12 February, 2012

The impossible escape from India and dirt roads

These claims or try to climb it for a photo without permission is like I got ahead of an aunt that I liked the street and tell. -Eh, Solid, show me tits

byMiquel Silvestre

11 February, 2012

In a strange land

The worst traveling companions

Travel is in our fears excarvar, dive into our insecurities. From these depths to show the very worst of times each, especially when, thousands of miles from home, seek the same amenities and behave with identical patterns. This is a review of a handful of monumental fights can spoil the best travel.

byRicardo Coarasa

9 February, 2012

Lima: Looking for this child

What is surprising is that John, the child face something sad look aged and, is also working. In fact, John would be nearly impossible without making the thousand bricks a day that will give the family with six euros to eat. Eight years after that child look

byJavier Brandoli

7 February, 2012

Burkina Faso: Dafra sacred catfish

The scene is indescribable. All around the rocks and hanging bloodstained fur hundreds of goats, cows and a horse, be scattered walking endless chicken feathers like a foam party they were, the smell of death pervades every corner of the lake.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

5 February, 2012

Alcatraz: the perfect getaway

While cruising through the cold waters of the bay of San Francisco, "The Rock" just peeking through the mist, as ashamed of his past shackles and solitary confinement.

byRicardo Coarasa

2 February, 2012

The lost city of Quilmes

When we reached the top of the ruins we saw the full beauty of the place. Before us, a plain dominated by cacti. Could almost imagine the Spanish riders approached the Indian city.

byGerardo Bartolomé

29 January, 2012

Debre Damo: the monastery of the rope and the snake

The monk throws the rope from the top. I look up. More 15 meter vertical wall separating me from the religious. It's the only way to climb to the monastery. I'm in your hands.

byRicardo Coarasa

26 January, 2012

Walter Bonatti, mountaineering legend

A few months ago, in September, fallecía a Roma, with 81 years, Walter Bonatti, the greatest climber of his generation and most ethical reference in the world of mountain. Of it has been said that was "pure climber who ever lived"

bySebastián Álvaro

25 January, 2012

Florence: lost in the night

That's when you find the sound of your steps solitary narrow cobbled streets. As is, There are even some places where there seems to echo. Curious feeling of walking back to the hotel tired with the constant desire to lose again.

byJavier Brandoli

24 January, 2012

Four unknown treasures of Patagonia

So many sites have hidden Patagonia! With the help of many people who wrote to me and left messages on Travel to the Past, I selected four unknown treasures of Patagonia.

byGerardo Bartolomé

22 January, 2012

Kenia, India: Bikes in the air

They say that here serves the cheapest beer in the city. Despite having been targeted in a series of terrible events of the year Islamists 2008, Leopold is always full

byMiquel Silvestre

21 January, 2012

Sintra: romance with emergency exit

Do not expect anything from a site has a distinct advantage: your ability to surprise is infinite. I expected little more from my visit to Sintra, upon arrival, rain broke with a crash. The outcome could only improve.

byRicardo Coarasa

17 January, 2012

The traveler and the nostalgia (II y fin)

I look out the airplane window British leads me to Spain, after a stopover at Johannesburg. I am slowly losing the image of Table Mountain to be impossible to retain its shape. Symbolic image. Cape Town is over, just for now Africa.

byJavier Brandoli

16 January, 2012

Mustang: the last Himalayan kingdom

"El anciano nos observa mientras sorbemos nuestro té. A silhouette sad, with, Chartered over the years and, I temo, almost blind. Mustang is the king of, the mythical kingdom of Lo, access to the Tibetan plateau from India, tierra de comerciantes y bandidos".

byJuan Ramon Morales

15 January, 2012

Unknown Patagonia

The Patagonia, luckily, has literally hundreds of places far from civilization. In addition to the Perito Moreno, Ushuaia o Bariloche, jewelry stores will discover. 'Today we look amazing and unknown four places in Patagonia. Help us to choose them!

byGerardo Bartolomé

14 January, 2012

Guadalupe: the humble wisdom of rosaries seller

If civil war broke out Mexico, a mean, Guadalupe only be able to agree to the contestants. That fervor for dark-skinned virgin breathes like no other place in the Basilica of Guadalupe. At the gates of the temple, lucid heard the phrase from my trip.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 January, 2012

The nostalgia of the traveler (Part I)

You see your life pass, Cape Town was because my life, dim. Nostalgic things that resolves with a practical "and mind you that balls, all that is past ".

byJavier Brandoli

12 January, 2012

Bombay: tourism in the misery and death

(...) It was a miracle not have killed them all. Intruders in the asphalt that cause their death almost dragged a car. Above him is a bundle covered with a sheet of colors. One can guess that it is a human corpse (...)

byMiquel Silvestre

11 January, 2012

Unknown by Jaén (II): Giribaile, Pompeii small Iberian

The track increasingly narrow wriggle between the horizon of olive, as if they wanted to steal one meters of land planted. Up there, Giribaile the hill stands out as a lonely sentinel What has brought you here?

byRicardo Coarasa

10 January, 2012

"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	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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