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A reality to be learned quickly is that you are a mzungu always in this part of the globe. The same story in other parts of the world where hunger corners
"Hey, What if we go to China?”
No matter where you go, no matter what I do, no matter where they sleep and where you eat, who touch or spend the day or hours of beer at sunset
Advance for not moving anything
Cross the street and a guy came out of the shadows that fell upon my. I could not understand, I thought I'd ask for money, and I said no. Just at that moment I realized I was missing an eye, but instinctively went into my house
Angkor, a medieval kingdom that disappeared into nothing
The Angkor complex is located northwest of the country, near the town of Siam Reap, which has become a place of pilgrimage tourism in all Asian travelers
"You are forbidden whipping and screaming while receiving electric shocks"
Gen. Pol Pot and his generals, with wild pretext curry favor with the Russian and Chinese superpowers, claimed the lives, according to the latest UN, nearly two million people,
La sangoma (healer) and a concoction called "African beer"
The sangomas are a kind of ancient healers. A culture based on herbs, beliefs in the afterlife and their symbols. South Africa is estimated that more than 200.000. They are respected people and that goes for help physical or spiritual advice
Black taxis: with room 12 fit 22
Nothing happens, Your head is attached to the window perfectly, stop your knees feel them in a short time and every drop of a traveler becomes a symmetric Tetris makes all parts of the interior have to move to vacate 60 kilos of muscle and flesh
Phom Pen: the miracle of being old
We encountered, from the first minute, with the influence of the French domination in the first half of the twentieth century. Everywhere there baguettes posts, and bakerys with delicious croissants and coffee that tastes like coffee
La Recoleta: the kidnapping of dead Evita and Aramburu
Aramburu ordered the 23 November 1955 kidnap the corpse of Evita, being embalmed by Dr. Pedro Ara Spanish. The body is standing on a flower delivery van and begins a tour around Buenos Aires
Un safari en un Volkswagen Polo
Northern Cape is one of the lesser known places in South Africa. To us it seemed a place touched by the magic of authentic
Nothing, or how to make a coconut smoothie
as always, following the advice of someone who told us that someone told him that somewhere there was a little known island, nos fuimos a Ko-Lanta,
Axum: The ancient obelisk stolen by Mussolini
In northern Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries on earth, blanket the city of Axum, What bitter irony, one of the main treasures of humanity: three obelisks of the fourth century and countless monolithic stelae embers of a great empire and disappeared.
A week later ...
A week ago I was in Khayelitsa, Langa y Guguletu. A week ago my vision of this place has changed. A week ago I'm preparing the return
Faces of the township (photos)
They're just expensive, but speak for themselves. Each picture was complicated to understand. It was difficult to look through the viewfinder and see what the reality was that it was across.
Who needs a dictionary if you have a soccer ball?
In this schoolyard where sun falls lead and the goals are marked with stones, as in the fields of our childhood, an army of wolves, Most barefoot, bad shoes the rest, bite at each split ball.
Waking up in the perfect city
It is impossible, if you have not seen anything about this city, believe this place is the right big toe of Africa. Not bad or good, I have learned to accept, is a reality that you tattooed on the eyes if you walk through some neighborhoods selected.
Monte Castillo Cave: ¿Flags painted on the prehistory?
In the bowels of the earth hide in Cantabria signs left by the primitive man does 200 ages. A legacy indecipherable in the eyes of modern man.
The smell of poverty
Cities always have a personal scent. A kind of nose that does not slap you forget. Whenever you return to the same place you remember the distinctive smell that there learned to chew. Cape Town I smelled nothing.
Sopong: In the "chochona" in the village festival!
If you come here and you pay to go to the jungle, are the timando. Except that the only thing that interests you is Subirós an elephant and that your friends will do a photo to the back molar.
The safety of Cape Town: ¿Blank pistols?
¿A's with machete or gun? Typical phrase (take as a metaphor) among foreigners in South Africa with which to start a conversation. Something like working or studying southern version and some toast.
El Jem: The Roman Coliseum lost in the desert
El Jem is a luxury, sometimes forgotten, the traveler should expect a lover of history in the middle of the driest nothing. There is a beautiful city, and surrounded by countryside yet fascinante.Sin, it is a place touched by magic man.
What if I make a career in Thailand?
Turns out I saw a sign advertising the race for Sunday, and I said: is the perfect opportunity to experience firsthand how it is in Asia
First night in Cape Town mutant
I like to stare at the screen and imagine where he fled outputs. This time I did not want to change the destination. I wanted to come to Africa and I'm in Africa.
