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Africa: the "city fish" shampoo

The answer, like everything else in the economy, is based on the relationship I have, would and could, universal law that divides the rest essentials. Much of Angola's population does not use toilet paper, expensive and imported article, lo que hace que el papel higiénico sea un producto de "lujo" priced for its economy would be equivalent to cleanse the back (pardon me) the Encyclopedia Espasa-Calpe.

byJavier Brandoli

18 March, 2011

Gyantse: the strength of the brave with no luck

From the valley of Nyang-chu, the once mighty fortress of Gyantse seems a maiden defiled, a half-finished decoration. Once up, with the plateau at our feet as far as the eye can see, one fully understands the strategic value of this crossroads between China and India where the Tibetans fought in 1904 the last battle before limping before the British invasion.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 March, 2011

The island of desolation

[st] Wrote a famous traveler: "On the horizon, the clouds, This mountainous and inclement island was outlined ...…

byGerardo Bartolomé

13 March, 2011

Dodging rocks

A bike at the Cervantes

When the stories are true, no euphemisms or complex, and count what you see and hear, the reader stops reading and begins to make a trip. Ésa es una parte del secreto de "Un millón de piedras". In VOD We are proud to have a staff of top-level staff. Miquel Silvestre teaches a different view of the world through his motorcycle. His book has already exhausted the first edition and just have the recognition of the Instituto Cervantes in Rome.

byMiquel Silvestre

12 March, 2011

South Africa Correspondent: goodbye to the sycophants of papo

(...) Correspondent work takes you away from the prominent papos sycophants who prowl the newsroom; of that market with the drool and news (...) of those who admire the amount of hours over the quality of the words; of pats on the shoulder when your subject is shaken by the social gatherings; of the miserable than ever tremble at the keyboard ...

byJavier Brandoli

11 March, 2011

The most impressive stupa of Tibet

On the Tibetan city of Gyantse some capricious god one day due to launch a curse. His two great treasures, a monastery and a fortress, were destroyed without mercy. But as the gods crowded but not drown, at least it is one of the most impressive stupas (funerary monuments) Tibet.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 March, 2011

Perito Moreno: Glacier lies

We were in front of the Perito Moreno glacier, undoubtedly the most amazing glacier world. This is a huge tongue of ice two miles wide coming down from the ice fields on the southern Andes, Lago Argentino cutting as it would have dreamed of escaping from Egypt Moses.

byGerardo Bartolomé

6 March, 2011

Lives in Nature

David Livingstone: the "roaring smoke" or "mosi oa tunya"

La Piscina del Diablo en "Mosi oa Tunya" is one of the trails that follow David Livingstone in Zambia. We talk about the mighty Victoria Falls and more than a hundred meter fall and nearly two miles long. The pious Livingstone was the first European to set foot on this fascinating place. A tale trail Livingstone Zambia.

byContributors

4 March, 2011

The life of Christians in the Middle East

A bishop afraid in Uzbekistan, a priest who plucks the bells in Iran, a group of women who smoke and do not wear headscarves in Iraq, a community of respected Christians in Syria, a cathedral next to a mosque in Lebanon, un hombre que se niega a irse "de la tierra en que nació Jesús" Jordan. A great story of Christianity in the Middle East.

byMiquel Silvestre

3 March, 2011

Highgate: forgotten cemetery Karl Marx

On a hill, Victorian graves surrounded by other illustrious neighbors, lies the body of Karl Marx. In Highgate Cemetery, in London, a place of magic. Dense vegetation between sculpture and a bust tombs under which you read a historical phrase: "Trabajadores del mundo uniros".

byJavier Brandoli

1 March, 2011

Neither does a reincarnation ends meet

Why is the female reincarnation of Tibet's most famous finishes in the pay of the Chinese Government? Is it possible to use his "secret forces" to attract men? Find the answers to these and other questions in this new stage of a journey through Tibet.

byRicardo Coarasa

27 February, 2011

What secret behind this old photo?

It is the glacier glacier. Tens of thousands of visitors each year admire. But the imposing mass of ice contains a handful of clichés and lies In what era is this photo? What lies save this famous glacier in Patagonia?

byGerardo Bartolomé

26 February, 2011

South African Cinema: bites in consciousness

A child raped by boyfriend, having AIDS, his mother; a view of the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation (created to grant amnesty to all who will plead guilty after apartheid) that uncovers the brutal torture and betrayal at the time of the racist regime.

byJavier Brandoli

25 February, 2011

A cross the Himalayas with a rookie driver

As we left Lhasa, Bumble each of the buttons on the dashboard to make sure what they are. Circulates 50 km / h, are continuing their sharp braking and cornering takes every invading the wrong lane, whether or not visibility. The driver of the SUV that should lead us to Kathmandu, 1.100 km across the Himalayas. I will travel through one of the most dangerous roads of the earth with a conductor trainee. I'm excited.

byRicardo Coarasa

21 February, 2011

Sailing with Malaspina

"Del 30 July 1789 until 18 September 1794, the Spanish Navy officers Alejandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante y Guerra led an expedition around the world geopolitical ..." Two centuries later I got on the boat. A day with Malaespina.

byJavier Brandoli

18 February, 2011

Tibet: in the bowels of the Potala

Top of the buttresses that support the Potala to plunge into the heart of the former winter palace of the Dalai Lama is like crossing the drawbridge of one of those castles of Amadis of Gaul that lit the holy madness of Don Quixote our universal.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 February, 2011

Croeso i Patagonia!

[st] Stories of migrants who cross the Atlantic in mid-nineteenth century in search of new horizons. Languages…

byGerardo Bartolomé

13 February, 2011

The woman from my balcony

The woman from my balcony is just a story I see from my window. A woman, like so many here, living on the street, keeping your belongings in a culvert and waiting for her life consumed. Llevo un año mirando lo que hace "la mujer desde mi balcón".

byJavier Brandoli

11 February, 2011

Lives in Nature

Schaller, twentieth-century naturalist

Many national parks and protected areas as far away as the Amazon, Nepal and China are due to the work of George B German. Schaller. His life is part of the natural history of this planet. Seguimos en VaP diseccionando la "historia verde".

byContributors

10 February, 2011

Norbulingka: the Dalai Lama's "driving school"

The summer palace of the highest spiritual authority of Buddhism, the "Jewel Park", is the antithesis of the city-fortress of the Potala. In the walled garden outside the current Dalai Lama Lhasa, Tenzin Gyatso, learned to drive in two and a Dodge Austin as his predecessor did bring in pieces across the Himalayas to the astonishment of people who lived at anchor in the Middle Ages.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 February, 2011

Penguin Island: displaced from the Falklands War

The boat departed from Puerto Deseado and sped over the blue waters of the South Atlantic. “¡Delfines!"Shouted a European tourist and the helmsman turned to port to approach bottlenose dolphins, these black-backed white dolphins living in the Patagonia.

byGerardo Bartolomé

5 February, 2011

A China, an Angolan, a South African… cardboard and rabbits

Cape Town is a city created the world remains, lives arrivals from afar, opposing cultures, Goodie, meaningless laughter, desires. It is the history of Angolan driver who wants to be millionaire, the synagogue, the Muslim Quarter and the smell of species.

byJavier Brandoli

4 February, 2011

The future of Egypt: Modernity and fundamentalism "?

Outside the resorts, villages are miserable and children threw stones at motorists. Cairo, congested and wrapped in a permanent haze; the capital of the Arab world has forsaken God. It seems that the sweepers take twenty years to strike.

byMiquel Silvestre

2 February, 2011

Jaffa: Sea Mosque

Founded as the Bible by Japheth, one of the sons of Noah, after the Flood, have gained from the pharaohs to the mythical Persian King David, Saladin, Richard the Lionheart "Napoleon. It Jaffa, the old city of Tel Aviv, one of the oldest ports in the world, boosting the minaret of the mosque of the sea on the vast blue of the Mediterranean.

byRicardo Coarasa

1 February, 2011

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