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The enigma of extinct species

An animal species extinct for thousands of years. A surprising finding in the cave of the picture and a question. "They survived some copies of these large mammals until today? What do you call that cave and what a wonderful discovery was made in it? What does it say about Patagonia ago 10.000 years? The answers have a contributing writer Gerardo Bartolomé VOD. Within a week, en su blog "Desde la Patagonia".

byGerardo Bartolomé

5 June, 2011

Mozambique: bus and ferry hens mud

We pay the ticket and hope, hope, until we realized that decayed wooden boat before us in which dozens of people came up was our ferry. The climax was when the end came a guy who got his bike.

byJavier Brandoli

3 June, 2011

Lucien Briet and "God gun" Ordesa

And these words were not uttered by an Aragonese, although it could have been,, even for a Spanish. Out of the mouth of a Frenchman, coming from the neighboring valley and nothing Gavarnie setting foot for the first time in the valley (1881) pleaded deep love Ordesa Valley. From that moment, Lucien Briet Parisian became a frequent visitor to the valley, you wrote about different works.

byContributors

2 June, 2011

The unknown area of ??the Spanish explorers of California

Juan Bautista de Anza was born in 1763 in the current Mexico, near Arizpe. The son of a Spanish soldier killed by Apaches, Young enlisted in the Army. With 24 years and was captain. Featured in what is now Arizona, requested permission from the Viceroy of New Spain to attempt an overland route to California. And 1774 marched 20 soldiers, 3 priests and 140 horses through the desert bare and unknown, Yuma Indian Territory and rattlesnakes.

byMiquel Silvestre

31 May, 2011

Zhangmu: the deconstruction of the Adventurer

Zhangmu, on the border with Nepal, is a motley bunch of houses hanging from a cliff in thick vegetation where the monsoons wreak havoc. Landslides are common this time of year and, inevitably, every so often a piece of people rushing downhill, toward the stream, swallowed by the mountain.. By Ricardo COARASA.

byRicardo Coarasa

30 May, 2011

Carretera Austral: Conservation SOS

"Do not know the southern road?"- We asked the owner of a stay when, For many years, we made our first trip in Patagonia. (...) Some years later, I spent three weeks to tour almost its entire length.

byGerardo Bartolomé

28 May, 2011

The short life of Albert and Sweet Baby

We ordered two glasses of wine. Viene. He puts on the table and abruptly says in a whisper "baby is gone" (the baby is gone). He says point-blank, as spitting sadness, as we look to shake her hands compulsively. No loss of half smile even announcing that his son is dead.

byJavier Brandoli

26 May, 2011

Tingri: paradise of desolation

The target must have outstanding accounts with Tingri, the last stop in Tibet deep before reaching the border with Nepal. Otherwise it is understood that the spray has so stark grief of. Everywhere you look, the same uneasiness, identical discouragement. The future only reaches as far as the eye: a dusty track that looks like a sentence. Whither flee? I did not take pictures. It did not take.

byRicardo Coarasa

23 May, 2011

When progress is traveling with a knife between his teeth

In the name of progress have been committed many atrocities, with the disinherited and Nature as the main victims. Also in Patagonia. On the brink of what legendary route these hills are monitored by the moon? What danger lurks in this remote southern region? El escritor y viajero Gerardo Bartolomé desvelará las claves el próximo domingo en su blog "Desde la Patagonia".

byGerardo Bartolomé

22 May, 2011

17 Mile Drive: the most photographed tree in the world

Among the California cities of Monterey and Caramel, Pacific shown brave and angry. The 17 Mile Drive (route of 17 miles) circumvents some of the world's most exclusive mansions, bays along misleading lavish wreck, casserole in sight of seals and sea lions. The highlight is the haunting The Lone Cypress, aupado a lone cypress on a cliff over 250 years, who happens to be the most photographed tree in the world.

byRicardo Coarasa

18 May, 2011

Benguerra Island: welcome to paradise

There are two ways to read this post. The first is read by looking at photos (the best thing); the second reading the text and check if it says something not seen in photos. It is difficult to describe the paradise. Try to imagine.

byJavier Brandoli

17 May, 2011

Rongbuk: when night falls

And Rongbuk, sparkling eyes of wild dogs stalk the tourist who ventures into the dark; be a lens is a black magic show; any comistrajo, a delicacy and sleep, possible effort. Hundreds of empty beer bottles-a 5.000 meters, fortunately, also gives drink to the thirsty- clump together forming a wall with the best views of the world: a sunrise on Everest.

byRicardo Coarasa

16 May, 2011

Paso de los Pehuenes: the route of the raids

The truck moved slowly along the way but every time there was more snow. Already reached mid wheel. My wife, with GPS, I said that there was still climbing 300 meters to reach the top step (port, as they say in Spain). "Three hundred meters is a lot," I thought.

byGerardo Bartolomé

15 May, 2011

Mozambique: sense of freedom

The city falls apart like cardboard soaked by rain. Its rugged skin of tall buildings in the center, of concrete sidewalks with reluctance and constant hole, does not prevent the city has the same philosophy that all major African cities I've visited: throng outside misery, unsuitable sales stalls, fruit stored on timbers or shoes littered the streets. City, however, perhaps by the beautiful sound of Portuguese, seems closer; almost, at times, more Caribbean than African.

byJavier Brandoli

14 May, 2011

Taj Mahal: a tear on the cheek of India

There are dreams that belong to the world of unattainable, but the passage of time and effort to achieve a chance to realize other more mundane. One of those fascinations had made me reach Agra, famous for hosting the incomparable Taj Mahal.

byEduardo De Winter

12 May, 2011

Potters of Pisuerga: the enigmatic rock-cut church

The church of San Justo y Pastor is at first sight is a unique place; after the second and third look all becomes impossible (...) Right there, bar below (Mason principal symbol), is carved into the rock a cross that resembles the one used by the Templars.

byJavier Brandoli

10 May, 2011

At the foot of Everest

We are finally in Rongbuk, the world's highest monastery, at the foot of the fearsome north face of Everest. The sky is clear. The Monsoon has had a hand. The view is superb, gorgeous. Do not you get tired of looking at Qomolangma, the mother goddess of the mountains. Is, certainly, one of the happiest days of my life. Now just think of walking to base camp.

byRicardo Coarasa

9 May, 2011

The terrible snow-capped volcano in Patagonia

What mountain is at the bottom of the picture? What is this mountain pass? What there were trafficked during the nineteenth century? The writer and traveler Gerardo Bartolomé has the answers. Next Sunday, another fascinating story about the Patagonia in the hand of a great storyteller.

byGerardo Bartolomé

8 May, 2011

Masai Mara: freedom of the great savannahs

The spectacle of the Masai Mara, and Kenya, not only in the wild, but the immense sense of freedom that comes over you, in saffron sunsets, in the immensity of the horizons, in the solitary acacia seem petrified by a vengeful god.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 May, 2011

(II)… circus performance of children with AIDS

Javier Brandoli. Cape Town's performance was the 27 April, national holiday in South Africa that commemorates…

byJavier Brandoli

6 May, 2011

Velokhaya: "Let Alberto Contador come"

"We dream of being the first team" black "runs the Tour of Spain or the Tour de France", Monde said jokingly Mpongoshe, the director of a cycling school located in the heart of Khayelitsha, the poorest suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. "We are the only black team there", Focus.

byJavier Brandoli

6 May, 2011

Chitwan: the park where "The Jungle Book" was inspired

Joseph Rudyard Kipling, British poet and writer, Born in Bombay (India) in 1865. and died in London in 1936. He lived in times of war and not in vain became famous among his countrymen for poems and stories devoted to the British troops in India.

byContributors

5 May, 2011

Yad Vashem, Jerusalem: the chill of the Holocaust

The visit to Yad Vashem, three times in the holy Jerusalem, is a frightening descent into the dungeons of humanity, a tour of the terrible Holocaust anatomy, a knock on the conscience that leaves you stunned morally.

byRicardo Coarasa

3 May, 2011

Shoes skin and blood transfusions

The cynicism reached its zenith when the very Ngonyama said "I did not fight to stay poor". It's one of those who continues to take, in cash and in the first person to have fought for the freedom of their own.

byJavier Brandoli

29 April, 2011

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