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The story of a hero in the Republic Center- African

A Spanish doctor who was left alone while the rest fled by the arrival of the guerrilla. One night healing people and seeing how they killed. He saved dozens of lives. Passed fear, very afraid, but decided not to leave. The story of a hero.

byJavier Brandoli

15 July, 2011

On the trail of the Spanish explorers forgotten

With the support of the Spanish Geographical Society, the writer and traveler Miquel Silvestre, contributor to this magazine, begins a motorcycle expedition around the world, to last more than year and a half, on the trail of the Spanish explorers who were strangers to show, how were the sights they saw and how they look now.

byMiquel Silvestre

14 July, 2011

Tales from the Bronx: Apache District graffiti

It is one of those names that could be heard swallowing. The Bronx. For those who have grown up with movies like "Fort Apache" or watching Charles Bronson pursue criminals through the streets, this New York neighborhood was synonymous with danger. Now, marginal stories are told in graffiti from their buildings.

byRicardo Coarasa

12 July, 2011

Bhaktapur: Sunday dishes Kathmandu Valley

The immaculate Bhaktapur is the darling of the Kathmandu Valley. There are no trash on the street, street or sticking your shadow, motorcycles or pedestrians dodging between horns. It happens that if you've traveled before the center of Kathmandu, can not avoid a certain feeling of unreality neat.

byRicardo Coarasa

11 July, 2011

Santa Cruz River: the wake of Fitz Roy

"A row which is the curve!”, I shouted to my comrades and eagerly returned to take the boat to the middle of the river. "How much we?"I asked one of them. I surprised GPS, separated us only ten minutes by boat from the enigmatic Basalt Glen Fitz Roy.

byGerardo Bartolomé

9 July, 2011

Memories of the World Cup in South Africa

The World Cup is in my heart the night that after the Spain-Portugal ended up at the Cuban bar in Cape Town watching an average Spanish team got drunk at five o'clock surrounded by ladies of paid and unpaid.

byJavier Brandoli

7 July, 2011

Almería: the cave where the Indalo was born

What is the symbol that appears in many car sticker in Spanish that seen hugging a man holding a rainbow or arc? Where is the Indalo, symbol of Almería? Who pinto? Why? Can be? All the answers are in Vélez Blanco, town in northern province, fascinating in Prehistoric Cave Signs.

byJavier Brandoli

6 July, 2011

The river of deception

Where in Southern Patagonia was beached the boat of an old engraving? What intrepid sailor took advantage of this estuary to repair your boat and, passing, explore the river in search of an Andean lake that never saw? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome made the same route. He did manage to see the lake. I will in a week in VaP..

byGerardo Bartolomé

3 July, 2011

Three days with the "pure" Afrikaner

"So I grew, thinking it was impossible to talk to her until after my grandmother died and came back to South Africa knew other English-speaking, just refused to use. He hated the English and everything having to do with them."

byJavier Brandoli

1 July, 2011

La Gomera: the well and last prayers of Christopher Columbus

(...) In the capital gomera, San Sebastián, are places (Today monuments) linked to Columbian history such as the Torre del Conde, the church in which the Admiral prayed one last time before leaving, the house-museum of Columbus or the Pozo de la Aguada (where it supplied water for the journey). A sign at the well says "this water was baptized America, year 1492.

byContributors

29 June, 2011

London: Churchill's cave

The Cabinet War Rooms were commissioned in June 1938, transforming a former underground storage to 10 meters deep in a bunker against bombing. The visit may be the facilities as they were after the war ended in June 1945. Some areas that can be visited are the rooms of the Churchill, control rooms or PBX.

byEduardo De Winter

28 June, 2011

Pashupatinath: the river of the dead

Kneeling, head down, man waits patiently for his head shaved, a rite de duelo Hindu. His late father is now a handful of ashes, in the waning fire, about to join the current holy Bagmati River. A few tourists aim their telephoto lenses from a nearby bridge. Can you imagine a group of Japanese poachers shooting his family during the funeral of a loved?

byRicardo Coarasa

27 June, 2011

A journey through Africa

The “Zip Zap Circus” project

Clarification on the end of the project to help Zip Zap Circus. There is nothing shady, there is a communication. Good luck to this beautiful and fascinating children program.

byJavier Brandoli

26 June, 2011

Istanbul: tea among the graves on the hill of Eyüp

Istanbul is a city without parallel, with countless reasons to visit. With one foot in Asia and one in Europe, is full of tourist postcards. But without detracting from its popular mosques and the Grand Bazaar, my predilections point in another direction: the Asian district of Uskudar and Eyüp Cemetery.

byRicardo Coarasa

23 June, 2011

Isla de Skye: Coral Beach

The road shows a wild, understood the green pastures wild Scottish twist on the hills; jump rivers among the rocks; the cliffs that seem made of marble; the persistent rain that seems to sprout from the ground

byJavier Brandoli

22 June, 2011

Swayambhunath: the temple of the screaming monkeys

On a hill on the outskirts of Kathmandu stands the temple of Swayambhunath, known as the Monkey Temple by the large number of monkeys that roam the neighborhood. To reach the stupa have to climb 365 stone steps, each more vertically, closely stalked by a legion of macaques. Up, you seen the giant eyes of Buddha. By Ricardo COARASA.

byRicardo Coarasa

20 June, 2011

The chapel stained with blood

What reminds this old Spanish settlement lonely chapel? These walls evoke a meeting, or collision, between the old and new worlds in a remote colonial settlement. Now become prime tourist destination, el lugar guarda una historia de supervivencia que nos contará el próximo fin de semana el escritor y colaborador de VaP Gerardo Bartolomé en su blog "Desde la Patagonia".

byGerardo Bartolomé

19 June, 2011

Mozambique: The dilemma of corruption in African cooperation

Nothing in this post a fascinating story of my trip. There is a special night where I heard many voices that narrate here. I was used to learn a lot, I hope that you would also serve. He told about it so unworthy of a toll as necessary, as nauseating as essential. A dead end? By Javier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

17 June, 2011

Nantes: between Jules Verne and Anne of Brittany

My weakness is Anne of Brittany, perhaps because the first time I met her figure was in the fascinating city of Saint Malo, only place I know where he built a wall to protect themselves from bullies people living within, not possible attacks from outsiders

byJavier Brandoli

14 June, 2011

Kathmandú: the slaughter of the royal family

When I visit Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, King Gyanendra is still reeling and the city is surrounded by Maoist rebels. The cannon that sat on the throne was a massacre that turned the world 2001. The crown prince shot dead his parents, Kings, and the cream of the royal family. After the regicide, the crown could only sit at the head of Gyanendra.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 June, 2011

On the trail of the last mylodon

The naturalist and his assistant kept digging, looking to find what they believed. The cave was large and had spent several days digging in various places. When they were about to give up the shovel dug up a hide with fur intact. "It's the skin of a milodon!”, exclaimed the enthusiastic naturalist to examine.

byGerardo Bartolomé

11 June, 2011

Tofo: backpackers beach in Mozambique

Tofo is a haven for backpackers, Travellers without a compass seeking redeem lost much time in your day to day or eternal quest disenchanted. It is also home to divers and surfers. Troupe international matches in the same place guided by the lack of maps

byJavier Brandoli

9 June, 2011

Cadiz: strong sea

Cadiz is one of those cities that you never want to go. Its prime location has been, throughout history, object of sieges and sackings. The danger came from the sea almost always. A tour of defensive fortifications and defenses is a journey through time with a superb cicerones: the Mediterranean and the taverns of old Cadiz.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 June, 2011

Kodari: Captain Haddock's syndrome

"Life does not wait at the border, is all you need to know ", Al Green singing. In the Nepalese Kodari, the corruption not know how to wait. Seeking to recover for the second time the visa and five dollars for not giving a picture card. Captain Haddock's syndrome is about to unfold.

byRicardo Coarasa

6 June, 2011

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