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The hotel of the trees and the words

He threw earth to control the wind, loaded his gun and looked not meet me surrounded by pachyderms. In the jungle, the market, without defenses, and controlling the rustling of leaves that were on the floor carpet. Africa.

byJavier Brandoli

8 September, 2011

Rhineland-Palatinate: stone sentinels of the Rhine

Following the course of the Rhine is to cross over the waters of Europe's history. A flow may be the best road we understand the past of a region. In this case, the route leaves you speechless. The castles and fortresses are happening before our eyes. The river is just a spectator.

byJavier Brandoli

7 September, 2011

Great Zimbabwe: the ruins of Black Africa

(...) Connect the last great king with the revolutionary little dictator rules the country; the great liberator who has left so many dead machete as will leave them with hunger if you will not soon, he decided to invent a royal line that jumps several centuries in time. Robert Mugabe, senses of Zimbabwe, name has become a direct descendant of the great African pride.

byJavier Brandoli

1 September, 2011

Bosnia: when the bullets are souvenirs

(...) Going from Split, the territory is mostly Bosnian Croat. At the pump allowed the Kuna, Croatian currency, and sell alcohol and pornography. Bosnia does not have its own currency, works with euro. There are many churches. May not devotion but political. Like the minarets, crosses are flags ...

byMiquel Silvestre

29 August, 2011

Gonarezhou: the garden of the baobab

(...) Sometimes tourists ended excursions on foot after being assaulted and car stolen in the middle of the visit. A free in the package include a walking safari to the hotel. That is the past ...

byJavier Brandoli

26 August, 2011

Antigua: the Pompeii of Guatemala

Antigua is a city molded out of eruptions and earthquakes, leading to dress in the footsteps of dozens of violent earthquakes. Three volcanoes have not been enough to subdue this beautiful Guatemalan village rocked by powerful innards plates.

byRicardo Coarasa

22 August, 2011

Patagonia: the promised land of the Welsh

I played ring, the door opened: "Croeso i ¡Patagonia!"I told the woman. "Thanks for the welcome Monica in Welsh." I replied. Finally we reached Gaiman, center of one of the greatest curiosities of the area: Welsh colony in Patagonia through.

byGerardo Bartolomé

20 August, 2011

La Antigua Veracruz: the Rubicon of Cortez

Antigua is the back of modern Veracruz. It is not touched by the golden wand of tourism, but the mixing of Mexico today began to take shape on its shores, where nearly five centuries ago began the great adventure of Hernán Cortés, who decided to sink their ships there, not burn, to close any possibility of return and thus put towards the great Moctezuma Aztec Court.

byRicardo Coarasa

18 August, 2011

Kuna Yala Islands: "Lost" in the middle of the Caribbean by 20 dollars a day

To inhabit a deserted island, without electricity or running water, between the Caribbean Sea is a unique experience. Sleep rough at night under starry skies only light a fire. Pure nature.

byJavier Brandoli

15 August, 2011

Tuscany: the secret of Chianti Route

Florence, Siena, Pisa .... There are few places in the world with more beauty accumulated Tuscany. Art history and overwhelming that this time the mix with the allure of Chianti Route. Small towns, medieval aspect, scattered around a small road through Tuscany. Good restaurants and good hotels to go to one of our favorite routes.

byJavier Brandoli

11 August, 2011

Libya: a meeting with Gaddafi's "boys"

(...) Arriving at the check point appears to the passenger car made by my disobedience basilisk. Dressed in camouflage, with tight-fitting T-shirt, very short and slicked back hair, mirrored sunglasses. Pushes and jostles, forces me to dismount rudely, requires a passport.

byMiquel Silvestre

10 August, 2011

Tordesillas: the demise of Queen Jane

Tordesillas oozes history from every pore. Is one of those places that are traveled sensing a rich past. In this village on the banks of the Duero Spanish where Spain and Portugal divided the world was half a century captive Queen Juana, llamada "La loca", taken out of heartbreak and melancholy.

byRicardo Coarasa

8 August, 2011

Prague: of ring of Kafka

It was both his prison and inspiration. Of the atmosphere oprimía, but also gave vent to his literary talent. Praga y Kafka. Kafka y Praga. No means the one without the other. Its streets are the ring where the tormented writer himself settled accounts in search of a reason to redeem the absurdity of existence.

byRicardo Coarasa

4 August, 2011

The Galapagos Islands were born in a village in Soria

A Spanish Berlanga de Duero, Soria, discovered the Galapagos Islands for a total calm wind took his boat to this natural paradise. In the collegiate church of the Spanish population an alligator hanging upside down remember the feat of his countryman.

byContributors

3 August, 2011

Normandy: the footprints of the «Longest Day»

The beaches of Normandy are a fascinating trail of war who has lived most cruel man. Between sand, museums, churches and cliffs can discover everything that happened 6 June 1944 in which the sea dawned with a date with history.

byJavier Brandoli

1 August, 2011

Three week visit to Zimbabwe

(...) sail on Lake Kariba and sleep three nights on their, I hope, calm waters; and I'll get to the mountains of Nyanga park where tumbling water see you again, this time at the falls Mutarazi (...), porJavier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

29 July, 2011

Humboldt and the Teide

(...) before crossing the Atlantic, Humboldt made a scale that changed his life and laid the foundation, inter alia, of modern phytogeography. It was in Tenerife, where he arrived on 19 June 1799. The departure of the Spanish corvette Pizarro, who should bring to America.

byContributors

27 July, 2011

Kumari: the loneliness of the girl goddess

The carriage is ready. Within hours, la Kumari, the girl goddess, leave in procession through the streets of Kathmandu, a strong tradition that even the Maoists have dared to liquidate. But the small awaits a bleak future when his divine halo fades.

byRicardo Coarasa

25 July, 2011

Monte Darwin: El Desquite Shipton

Shipton fell into a deep depression over losing the mountain to which he had prepared all his life: el Everest. He decided to be the person who had conquered mountains, the largest number 1 history. There were many virgin peaks in the northern hemisphere, so we laid eyes on the ice fields between Argentina and Chile. There were dozens of unexplored mountains.

byGerardo Bartolomé

23 July, 2011

Sport in South African townships

...Only a few used condoms with the band, in the grass, remember that we are in territory fucked. The rest is an installation of the first set in a third zone. Langa is one of those neighborhoods where the salads are dressed with oil from the car..

byJavier Brandoli

22 July, 2011

Epupa Falls: the water of the tribe of mud

It is without doubt one of the nicest places I've gone for Africa. North of Namibia, difficult to access, there are some spectacular waterfalls. Next to them the primitive tribe of the Himba and their ancient customs that are sold to the dollar. A fascinating world.

byJavier Brandoli

21 July, 2011

Towards the Grand Canyon

(...) A Mexican told me that the teacher hit them when they spoke Spanish. Almost on the border with Mexico, Columbus appears, a tiny village that had its moment of fame when Pancho Villa made in 1916 one of their raids. The raid would bring death.

byMiquel Silvestre

19 July, 2011

Patan: penance unfortunate goat

Languish at the gates of the temple as rags. It looks hungry and look, sad. No caress, no hand to lengthen them some food. Starve or sacrificed to Shiva. These goats wandering like lost souls bear the sins of devotees are Hindus and considered impure.

byRicardo Coarasa

18 July, 2011

The Everest climber overcome by

He dreamed, like so many other climbers of the time, to become the first man to tread the summit of Everest, but the glory was elusive. Sorry, heart rumbo a la Patagonia. Other peaks waiting to be conquered virgin. What is the name of the British explorer and mountaineer image? What feats he starred in southern lands? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome will tell the story in next week VaP..

byGerardo Bartolomé

17 July, 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
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The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
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My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
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