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The four animals that have to do in Patagonia

How difficult is to select only four animals of Patagonia! But if I have to opt for the essential, my choice is this: the southern right whale, the penguin, guanacos and condors. By Gerardo Bartolomé.

byGerardo Bartolomé

7 January, 2012

Villa Rica: the beginning of the epic of Hernán Cortés

The Ford Triton leads to Antigua Veracruz zebu crosses pastures and donkeys tied to trees with no owner in sight. The first city founded by Hernan Cortes in New Spain is the most impressive place I have visited so far in Mexico, I guess its historic aura. By Ricardo Coarasa.

byRicardo Coarasa

5 January, 2012

The animals most attractive in Patagonia

For a minute dream of a trip to Patagonia ... I chose what place in the previous post. Well ... now look at these photos of Patagonian animals. What would you like to see on your trip? Do all? Sure! But what think you should not miss? Help me choose four animals Patagonian fauna essential.

byGerardo Bartolomé

1 January, 2012

Julióbriga: the end of the Cantabrian tribes

A reservoir and a Roman road that crosses seven miles Cantabrian valleys. Julióbriga is a trip to the conquest of northern Spain by the Romans. A little known place, fascinating and nestled amidst a beautiful mountain landscape.

byEduardo De Winter

30 December, 2011

New Year in New York

New York fascinates and horrifies you. Everything at a glance. For those who do not go running away, here are ten essential proposals for those visiting for the first time the Big Apple. By Ricardo Coarasa.

byRicardo Coarasa

29 December, 2011

Waterfront: a tourist complexes bobo

(...) It's not my place or, I now understand, ceases to be. It's just a good place for a drink without thinking that in Africa the luxury malls are prepared for the rich or imbecility tourists. Remove bias is important to travel and sometimes unfair classism and falsely exercised looking up (...) Por Javier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

28 December, 2011

Kenya: the hard road barefoot lost shepherd

In a long line filled with coarse gravel divisive and two shadows in the distance. Two hikers. When I'm close to them I say something (...) In perfect English one, the youngest, turns to me and asked if this road I saw a man without shoes. By Miguel Silvestre.

byMiquel Silvestre

27 December, 2011

The three best "classics" of Patagonia

Perito Moreno, Bariloche Torres del Paine, three places in Patagonia that no one travel to this beautiful southern region may be lost. By Gerardo Bartolomé

byGerardo Bartolomé

25 December, 2011

El Tajin: the puzzle of the pyramid of the niches

We arrived in El Tajin, Archaeology swallowed by the jungle, ancestral pulse between stones and weeds, leaving behind rain, heat, rain again, and a grocery store after another on the shoulders, dotted watermelon vendors. By Ricardo Coarasa.

byRicardo Coarasa

23 December, 2011

Cape Town: life at low cost

Many who come to this beautiful city just sense the difference, but they never behold and believe to go visiting a corner of the first world beggars dotted invisible leaving sewers, converted into a dance hungry zombies and alcohol. They come from poverty in the slums of the low cost of living is, always at risk ... Por Javier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

22 December, 2011

Rioseta: perfect circus

Seldom have I encountered a landscape so overwhelming as Rioseta Circus, in the Aragonese Pyrenees. One step from the station Candanchú, This natural stone porch and creepy cut leaves absorbed the traveler who goes to Puerto del Somport, Summus Roman Portus, ancestral crossing between Spain and France. By Ricardo Coarasa

byRicardo Coarasa

21 December, 2011

Trujillo: the birthplace of the conquistador bastard

No one knew then or know it at the rest of his days, but at that moment began perhaps the greatest epic man who has made

byJavier Brandoli

20 December, 2011

In the footsteps of a true explorer

Brake, I turn around and see that your bike is on the ground. No movement. It rises. It beckons me. Scares me to see, tail and sped back. I shouted his name if I can hear. By Miguel Silvestre.

byMiquel Silvestre

19 December, 2011

Best of Patagonia

What are the three best places in Patagonia? Help the writer and traveler Gerardo Bartolome to choose these three wonderful southern photographic ten proposals.

byGerardo Bartolomé

18 December, 2011

The Bazaruto Archipelago: the brutal beauty of a goodbye

(...) Azura transports its wealthy clients, Harrison Ford had to stay, by helicopter from the airport. How does one cross the globe to sleep in a place or are not willing to walk its streets and its waters? (...) Por Javier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

15 December, 2011

Tlacotalpan: the revolution of "carpenter" Porfirio

Often, the difference between a place on the map and swell the long list of forgotten cities is an illustrious son to be proud of. Tlacotalpan is fortunate to be able to wield the birth certificate of one of the great, Mexican composer Agustin Lara.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 December, 2011

Unknown by Jaén (In): the rock paintings of Sierra Morena

There are two, looking at the world as more of 6.000 years, when our ancestors painted in a corner of Sierra Morena. On the bare stone broken for ever and ever, the silhouettes of carmine powder have become a generation after another. Have overcome the time. Son eternas.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 December, 2011

Ethiopia (II):Forgotten Tomb Pedro Páez

(...) After reaching a plateau, I admire the stunning views. The lake will be about 10 kilometers that extends over a succession of gentle hills and lush fertile in crops, forests and farms. Farmers and cows roam this idyllic horizon. This scenario is the closest thing I've ever seen the Garden of Eden (...) By Miguel Silvestre.

byMiquel Silvestre

12 December, 2011

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

Vilanculos: malaria and the home of artisans

"Sandy ha pasado más de 30 times since he decided in malaria 1999 come and live with your partner, Snowy, a Vilanculos, a natural paradise where the buzz of a mosquito can mean loss of life"

byJavier Brandoli

9 December, 2011

The eyes of the girl in Eyipantla Viridiana

The Eyipantla jump is one of those waterfalls that return the traveler a breath of freedom that has been left as shreds by the way of life. But not water, in, what comes to mind when I think of this cascade, but huge eyes, lively but sad, perhaps resigned. The eyes of the little Viridiana.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 December, 2011

Camel Road Gates Sahara

"Llevamos 4 running days. Not hot, Contrary to what most thought. The light reverberates on mica lining the road, where more than one occasion the rounded forms of the abundant fossils or arrowheads are more unreal the way in which we operate under the slow pace of camels, as in a dream"

byJuan Ramon Morales

5 December, 2011

The port of the unknown species

Where in the Patagonia takes this scene and how interesting discovery made Darwin there? Why adventurers were going up the river and looking for what? Gerardo Bartolomé once again takes us into the dark side of the Patagonia.

byGerardo Bartolomé

4 December, 2011

Ethiopia (In): in search of Spanish who discovered the sources of the Blue Nile

Children are behind the rider meowing "yuiyuiyui"; yui means foreign. All reach out asking for money. The panhandling becomes suffocating. It is certainly worse than in any other African country that has been. As for the legend that throw stones, true. Some of these beggars are children and there are also skillful slingers to be careful.

byMiquel Silvestre

2 December, 2011

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Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
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"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
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