Scotland: Tour of the wildest castles
The traveler includes a rock that comes from the same sea guts. On top of that mass of stone castle holds a, Dunnottar, demolished and
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Kruger Park: the fight to the death between men and lions
After the park opened to tourists stopped killing lions, administrators stunned after finding that the public preferred to watch the cats that the thousands of antelope that raced across the savannah
Quito: the city built on the ashes of the Incas
The capital of Ecuador is one of the best examples of colonial architecture. Their churches and monasteries, well preserved, give the city a romantic and old. But, Quito was once a great city of the Inca empire. Why there are no remains of the greatest empire that existed in America before the arrival of the Spanish?
And in injury time… came the leopard
There are stories that seem taken from a film script. Followers of this blog know that a few months ago I threw in the towel on the important, most crucial, challenge of seeing the "big five" in Africa: elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo and leopard (take an ironic commentary crucial, although my boat for joy when I saw it was to win the Champions).
Toledo: the secret caves and the Templars
¿How are Toledos? Arabic, the Christian, Jew, you got the miracle that all live together in harmony at a time ... The beautiful Spanish city has the power to reinvent itself each visit. VOD in this report shows the most mysterious and hidden Toledo, the less visible to tourists: the eternal city of the Templars and secret caves.
Gondar: Africa's Camelot
At the foot of the Simien Mountains, Ethiopia holds in its bowels a legacy as valuable as unknown. Who would expect to be confronted by the silhouette of several medieval castles cut in the heart of Africa?
Vysehrad: the dark and obscure hill in Prague
Outside the monumental center of Prague there is a hill that is buried in the history of the Czech Republic. A cemetery, a church and gardens filled with exciting legends. A place as beautiful and haunting as the great city that was born at his feet. It all starts with the life of the Princess Libuse and pagan prophecy ...
Portugal: two dream homes in the medieval frontier
The charming interior of Portugal, with their people calm and past perennial, hides a story of battles and castles border lookouts. Two lodgings's dream lost in the fields of brand vintage Lusitanian.
The Art Bassel revving
For almost a week, from 4 December, Miami is full of exhibitions, rooms, concerts and events to celebrate the largest art fair in the world. Photography, sculpture, painting, young artists, devoted, critical, much criticism, everything to do.
Miami Prison: the shadow rental
Miami, wonderful city of excess in all aspects, with his prison could not be less. [st] Text…
Siresa: Pyrenean landscape of embattled King
There are still villages where you can hear the silence. And Siresa, in the Valle de Hecho in Huesca, the traveler can recognize even the barking of dogs, the footsteps of the locals and the cries of the hinges of the windows that scrutinize visitors.
How do you say fart in Uganda?
The fun and special experience a unique encounter with mountain gorillas. A South African clumsy got a special time to become a mad trip to the jungle. The encounter with the great apes left a lasting memory.
White Mountains, the sacred country, goodbye
The last two months of travel have been, probably, the most intense. Nepal and its beautiful mountains sacred revealed a pleasure in my nature to know. Top hundred yards without stopping up every day, pointing to an uncertain fate Snow, cold, and the best cards in the world, I generated a mixture of insecurity and joy hard to describe.
The show of mzungus and the dwarf
There are some stories from the end of my trip to Uganda that should not be forgotten. The bad connections blocked, as I wanted, that blog and travel go hand in hand. Now, from the snowy mountains of Switzerland (What change!!!), I begin to explain the end of what for me has been a fascinating adventure.
Brittany: the way of the customs
A journey through history attached to the wild sea Breton. Red rocks by the water that climbs. A path which passes through the mythical Mont Saint Michel and its abbey full of mystery. Customs officers kicked the coast in search of shipwrecks and pirates.
Chott el Jerid: the last refuge of the “desert fox”
The lines postreras the desert war between the Allies and the soldiers of Hitler and Mussolini are written in southern Tunisia 1943. Douz is the starting point for exploring the horizons of white salt lake of Chott el Jerid, the last refuge of Rommel.
In Miami we are the Spain of 20% stop
It is clear that both Cuban, Venezuelan, Colombian, Argentina, Chilean and etc etc it is difficult to…
Seven months and one week after I return home
Summary of seven and a half months, several countries and many adventures in Africa
Uganda: with chimpanzees in the jungle wild
The Kibale forest hides one of the last strongholds of wild chimpanzees. Follow the thick tropical vegetation is an unforgettable experience. Her screams, the jumps between the branches and almost human behavior make this place something magical.
Katmandu: a ghost in the night
Nepal, one o'clock. The plane that brought us out of China, of which we say goodbye…
Uganda: the encounter with the "green" Nile
Playing the Nile is a special experience for the traveler. His wild in Murchison Falls leap; his calm millennial against Paraa Safari Lodge. Uganda is a country of green landscape, red dirt roads, dense clouds skies. A fascinating place.
Decadent city and the Masai from the beach
Everything in Zanzibar is pleasing to the senses. Lovely people and conversations with them anecdotes accumulate. Two weeks on this island, including aircraft, can be introduced into the environment of the 1.200 EUR. Just avoid the luxury hotels.
Zanzibar: smiles smell of cloves
The earliest sunsets of the tropics are yellow and red. The nights are spent in restaurants lit with torches and glasses are taken from the deck chairs
Lhasa: the ancient Forbidden City in Tibet
"I have for the most happy who ever lived the days when, miserable with my pack on shoulder, wandered over hill and dale in the wonderful land of snow ". Sometimes, one sentence is enough to cross half the world in search of a dream landscapes. The traveler, while flying from Kathmandu to Lhasa, Tibet's capital, continues to spin these words of Alexandra David-Neel, the first European woman who managed to enter the Forbidden City, disguised as a beggar, in the distant 1924.
