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The end of the world out

Water shipwrecks and violent storms in a corner of the world. Route of brave sailors and threatening cliffs What geographic location is recognized that in the picture? How does the Gold Route of Spanish America? What stories of tragedy and suffering hide those rocks? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome has the keys. The answers, within a week VaP..

byGerardo Bartolomé

23 Oct., 2011

Dodging rocks

The Coptic maze

"Why should we do it?”, replied the owner of a hotel. "This is our country. We were before. We just want our rights. We silent centuries, enduring humiliation, but things are coming to a intolerable. They want us out but we will not go. Addition, Where do I go? This is my home and my business. It's my life ".

byMiquel Silvestre

21 Oct., 2011

Arlington Cemetery: the american way of death

People have ways of living and, also, to die. Just shop around for their cemeteries. The Arlington is very revealing of the American soul, always proud of their patriotism and their heroes. Names 300.000 Fallen, orphans stories, bewilder the visitor. But its headstones are aligned with neatly cut lawns millimeter, in the shade of trees and with negligible views. Death can also be comfortable. Es el american way of death.

byRicardo Coarasa

19 Oct., 2011

Mana Pools: Buffalo attack, the night of hyenas

Suddenly comes a hyena that crosses in front of me, less than five meters, along the shore. At another time I guess I would have been paralyzed but not in the Mana Pools Park where one accepts the surprising part of the routine.

byJavier Brandoli

17 Oct., 2011

Valley 16 of October: the plebiscite of the schoolhouse

On the morning of 30 April 1902 Holdich convinced Moreno to go to school in the valley. When the Argentine and English arrived, the boys sang the anthem of Argentina. Holdich, between intrigued and excited, wondered aloud whether they preferred to be from Argentina or Chile. All responded in unison "Argentina!”, although with a foreign accent.

byGerardo Bartolomé

15 Oct., 2011

Border Tourism, adventure sports

(...) We were inside a closed room and dark. I looked incredulous and suggested the intervention of an American president. "Which of them are talking?”, he asked with a toothpick sticking between the teeth. “¿Qué tal Andrew Jackson?”, suggested. “No, ese is no me, Ulisses mejor. S Grant”. And so the president whose face appears on the fifty-dollar bills helped me cross.

byMiquel Silvestre

14 Oct., 2011

Berna: five centuries of imprisonment for the bears

(...) Is 1513 when the soldiers come home victors of the Battle of Novara carrying a live bear as a trophy. We decide to build an animal enclosure, a pit before the central door (...) French General Brune humiliated in 1798 to the Bernese after taking the city and take all the animals to Paris.

byJavier Brandoli

12 Oct., 2011

Lago Turkana: towards the Jade Sea

(...) Going up a wall of lava is opening before them a surreal scene. A huge expanse of water, verde jade, hit by a steady wind and surrounded by small volcanoes. Teleki and Von Hohnel completed well, for European cartographers, the map of the African Great Lakes with the farthest, inaccessible and mysterious of all, from Lake Turkana.

byJuan Ramon Morales

10 Oct., 2011

The stone which averted a war

What border dispute between Argentina and Chile helped solve this stone next to the Andes? A track: bears the name of a British colonel sent by Queen Victoria to arbitrate the dispute and avoid a war between the two countries. Behind this story there is an interesting story that will within a week the writer and traveler VaP. Gerardo Bartolomé.

byGerardo Bartolomé

9 Oct., 2011

Matusadona: the park that does not belong to the maps

Matusadona is a treat to the senses. A unique park, very beautiful, Africa teaches from the waters. It is so removed from everything that seems to be hidden from the world, as if there's life to develop on his back, the shadows (...) This place has something of paradise vetoed, end of nowhere where I never found, of piece of land that belongs to the maps.

byJavier Brandoli

7 Oct., 2011

Santa Orosia: the chapels of the princess beheaded

A young princess beheaded for refusing to marry a Saracen. A gorge in the rock hidden shrines, of hermits back to the world, of legends and traditions. Scenarios runs VaP. martyrdom of St. Orosia in Aragon.

byRicardo Coarasa

5 Oct., 2011

Voulet there Chanonne: the macabre killing French Niger

And Kakpu, the inhabitants had been completely stripped and burned their crops. In Sassanné Houssa over a hundred women and children were killed and decapitated bayonet stroke being too weak to serve the army. Each time a carrier could not follow was executed with his sword and left to the vultures to save bullets.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

3 Oct., 2011

Chubut River: Crossing the Welsh

The sun was beginning to fall and Roberts decided that this would be the camping site. They put the few wagons forming a barrier to fend off a hypothetical Indian attack at night. The Welsh had had bad experiences in this regard.

byGerardo Bartolomé

1 Oct., 2011

Route 66 (III): the culmination of a dream

New Mexico, as well as Arizona, is an arid land, rough, ocher, that of the cowboy and Indian movies: rocks, authentic scenarios of a film by John Ford, in which a Navajo can peer into the abyss.

byContributors

30 September, 2011

Maputo: the most beautiful train station in the world

Maputo has an important historical legacy. Account, say, with one of the ten most beautiful train stations in the world, designed by Eiffel; a fort in which he played the fate of the colonies of South Africa; an iron house as beautiful as useless and the arena to the south of the planet. A special city.

byJavier Brandoli

28 September, 2011

36 horas navegando el Lago Kariba

Then, Captain looks at me and said how about you? I looked and even calculating what they mean 15 I answer years: "I do not know what I'll do the next 15 minutes ". We laugh and we enjoy beating of waters began to rise in the wind. "Sometimes they become ten feet, tell me.

byJavier Brandoli

26 September, 2011

The stone sentinel of the Patagonian steppe

An epic journey across the plains to meet the Patagonian Andes. What do you call this huge stone? On the verge of what river is located? What group of settlers was a reference point on their long journey? The details of history is the writer and traveler <strong>Gerardo Bartolomé</strong>. The next weekend, and VAP.

byGerardo Bartolomé

25 September, 2011

Route 66 (II): through the lands of the "red people"

The asphalt boil at noon. The first rays of sunlight are absorbed by the soil; after a while and can not cope and road burns. Staking the edges, The bulle fe.

byContributors

23 September, 2011

Timanfaya: splendor between volcanoes

The best gift you can make a trip is to keep intact the capacity to surprise. He had traveled to Lanzarote towards a sun and beach tourism and, when I knew it, was walking between dormant volcanoes in a landscape devastated by the wrath of the bowels of the Earth.

byRicardo Coarasa

21 September, 2011

Narva: Lenin statue forgotten

Narva is the name of a city estonia. Is, also, the river from the early Middle Ages has delineated the border between Russia and Estonia accessible in the Gulf of Finland. Two castles, on either side, emerge as stone sentinels wary.

byRicardo Coarasa

17 September, 2011

Route 66 (In): the road without borders

And Oklahoma, in the heart of America, where the sun punishes the existence, a businessman, Cyrus Avery, dreamed of a network of interstate highways. That idea went to the American Association of State Highway. Thus born, in 1926, Route 66. This is the chronicle of a trip 3.600 kilometers back of a Harley Davidson. By Diego COBO.

byContributors

16 September, 2011

A beer in Victoria Falls: the promise of the end

And he looked, side again looked hop Zambia, where I lived last year unrepeatable moments. And laughed and waited for Fernando Bernardo, I called to join the group, and I put back on the precipice of rocks where the water was a blanket that you calaba, and never wanted to leave, and the delayed, I almost know acojonaba beginning to put a period and what followed? the best year and a half of my life.

byJavier Brandoli

15 September, 2011

The great African migration and Joubert

Once again the spectacle of the wildebeest crossing the river, again the lurking crocodiles, again one of the most exciting major wildlife documentaries in store. And there beside them, positioned our car.

byContributors

12 September, 2011

Bahia Manzano: prisoner of Chief Sayhueque

Wanted to spend a winter holiday of tranquility and comfort and for this we chose a small hotel with all amenities in a very special, Bahia Manzano. (...) That this experience different from all that lived when the Perito Moreno, exploring the area, became apparent to the Chief guest Sayhueque, about 130 years back.

byGerardo Bartolomé

10 September, 2011

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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
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My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
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