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The strange story of a normal day in Africa

A workshop between chickens and debris; un banco con entradas para "ricos" y "pobres"; un zimbabuense que se cruzó la frontera con sus caballos a Mozambique huyendo de la "guerra"; a bicycle hanging from the fish; a road impassable; an eternal corner ... A day in Vilanculos.

byJavier Brandoli

29 November, 2011

The oldest doll hospital in Europe

It's the closest I've been a dream factory. Brokedown Palace, convalescent, in the ICU some, but dreams at the end of the day. Here are responsible for recovering their magic, to burnish, of return haloed with the same enthusiasm for the first time. A unique place it, only. It is the oldest doll hospital in Europe, almost two centuries behind, but for most tourists are walking around Lisbon probably go unnoticed.

byRicardo Coarasa

28 November, 2011

The defensive line of the coast of Malaga and the XXI century

I visited several towers greet the Mediterranean and in the past showed challenging to those who dared challenge its water from the peninsula. The sun shone on the calm blue sea, a gentle breeze caressing our faces, the same wind that blew past the sails of the ships with letters of marque.

byEduardo De Winter

24 November, 2011

Vilanculos: dismissed in paradise

While waiting in the sun for someone to come to our rescue and we saw happen to Mozambicans who walk, Like most African, in the middle of nowhere doing nothing other, get a truck from the hotel. One can already sense that it must be a special place a place that stands for a way impossible

byJavier Brandoli

22 November, 2011

Laguna Catemaco: between monkeys and shamans

Catemaco is a beautiful lagoon with two distinctive colorful Mexican: claims to be the world capital of witchcraft and is home to a colony of macaques relocated from Thailand. Ie, you never know if the tourists which gets into the boat come here to eat them primates in the hand or to get a "clean" spirits 100 weights.

byRicardo Coarasa

21 November, 2011

Landing in the land of the giants

This is a major marine epics of all times. Who were the crew of a modern replica of an old ship? Where they are and to what place the ship was heading? How does this course with the origin of Patagonia? The writer and traveler Gerardo Bartolomé has the answers. Within a week, and VAP.

byGerardo Bartolomé

20 November, 2011

A tuc tuc to "escape" from Sudan

I'm tired of waking up with a Sudanese glued to the hump, however sympathetic it. What I want is to get out and leave behind the black hole and all its inhabitants.

byMiquel Silvestre

19 November, 2011

Rascafría: the bridge of forgiveness and the house of the hanged

And is that for those with at least three votes against innocent, the next destination was waiting a mile above, towards the port of Boundaries: the House of Gallows. Death or life depending on the distributers of Justice decided that the prisoner was to turn his steps to the right or left.

byJavier Brandoli

17 November, 2011

The five best sunsets in the world

What are the best sunsets on the planet? Where can seen the best of the sun gear? Here are our five proposals. What are your?

byJavier Brandoli

16 November, 2011

Robberies suffered by police in Africa

Of course, negotiating the ridiculous rule violation, in which the group of policemen paid in cash the amount agreed upon bargaining, it addresses all, it would be a humiliating lack of authority for agents that are robbing you hide.

byJavier Brandoli

15 November, 2011

Veracruz: port of the legends

Veracruz is a place to stay stripped of duties and hours, enjoying the pleasure of reconciliation with the time, with the talks without violations. Veracruz is a port city, or a port city, which lower the flag and languish stress listening legends and terrible events that still disturb the daily cadence of jarochos.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 November, 2011

Nahuel Huapi: the last trip of the Perito Moreno

In 2003, along with my wife, stopped three days at the Inn Puerto Blest, an arm of Lake Nahuel Huapi, which flows into the mountains almost to the border with Chile. The boat passed us along to an island which is buried a beloved character for Argentina: Perito Moreno. Even today it is the custom of the boats to sound the horn three times in salute.

byGerardo Bartolomé

12 November, 2011

Mountains of Pakistan: in the land of infidels

Surrounded by a sea of ??Muslim peoples for centuries, wine, sexual freedom of their women and a very special way of understanding life is a surprise in this region known for its fanaticism and fugitives from legend that until recently have traveled, allegedly, Osama Bin Laden como, Without going any further.

byJuan Ramon Morales

10 November, 2011

Chimoio: Back to Africa

"hay un mercado en el que se venden los restos de los restos y a su alrededor una masa de gente que deambula vendiendo, looking, going, buying, drinking or eating, that the street is the great house of Africans. Next to the bus station, always meeting place for the cities, there is a market for indoor wooden huts. Almost no light enters or run the air. The fishy smell is intense dry"

byJavier Brandoli

8 November, 2011

San Juan de Ulúa: the last Spanish flag in Mexico

Veracruz is the beginning and end of the Spanish presence in Mexico. Landed on its shores the ships of Hernan Cortes and there remains the last bastion colonial, the fort of San Juan de Ulua, which last lowered the Spanish flag.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 November, 2011

The sentry on the island of the tiger

Who's in the coffin with that load these soldiers on the banks of a lake? What legacy left in the maps and the preservation of natural habitat? What is the name of the island where his remains lie? A track: still, vessels make it sound the horn three times a sign of respect as he passed his final resting place. The travel writer Gerardo Bartolomé enigmatic guide us in this trip next week.

byGerardo Bartolomé

6 November, 2011

Malicious: the cursed de Guadarrama

Some mountains appear to carry on his name a curse, as if dragged a relentless conviction or weighed on the same biblical anathema, but just hearing his name to be hopelessly attracted to them. It happened at the time with the Hells and Maladeta, in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and, more recently, the Malicious, Guadarrama.

byRicardo Coarasa

5 November, 2011

The black hole of Wadi Halfa

Wadi Halfa is a moridero. We can stay here forever accompanied by dust and life goes slow. My routine is always the same, sometimes lively night visits as of last night. I heard noises bag, like someone in our olives hurgase.

byMiquel Silvestre

3 November, 2011

Goodbye Zimbabwe, Mugabe goodbye

The feeling is that the country is undone, everything is decaying. No freedom dreamed of and fought, that a leader of your own skin color does not make you free, tions from comida, no security. It could be anything this beautiful country and the blame is not the liberators of the ancient tyrants. Zimbabwe has enough resources and infrastructure legacy-still languish- to dream of something more than a patriotic salute to the black cause. The cause is to have future black shelves.

byJavier Brandoli

2 November, 2011

The Ñatitas of La Paz: a Sunday between calaveras

In La Paz, sordid and magical, merciless and surprising, spiritual and pagan at a time, the feast of All Saints held off the beaten. A week later begins the Feast of Ñatitas and the city's indigenous majority is released to the cemeteries to hold a macabre and festive feast where the main guest is death. Welcome to one of the biggest shows of the World.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

31 Oct., 2011

Cape Horn: where the wind roars

We had to wake up early to have any chance to land before the outbreak of the wind. Standing at the stern of the boat launch expected to return the advance and whether the conditions were to lose. We were a mile of Cape Horn, but it was quite possible that we could not step on.

byGerardo Bartolomé

29 Oct., 2011

San Sebastián: the release of the French, the ashes of the British

I found the street 31 August, whose facades still whisper nightmares of fire and looting. That day 1813, Allied troops consisting of British and Portuguese soldiers launched the final assault on San Sebastian. The French army could not stand the onslaught and retreated to the Castillo de la Mota, a twelfth-century fortress

byEduardo De Winter

27 Oct., 2011

Karen Blixen and recent memories of Africa

(...) The lake is a tribute to the film with his viewpoint. This is the viewpoint named Out of Africa, and stands at the west end of park. Since it shows a breathtaking panorama of the lake, the banks and the incomprehensible stain pink flamingo ..., by Alfonso Polvorinos

byContributors

25 Oct., 2011

The Highlands and the last night in Zimbabwe

We walked along a narrow dirt road that is gaining ground in the middle of a forest where almost no light slips. Among lianas, branches that must be overcome under, fallen logs and following the progress of a boy who leads a path that seems eternal. Occasionally we heard the sound of water near and suddenly disappears. No one sees only the horizon.

byJavier Brandoli

24 Oct., 2011

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