Guisando Bulls: come in without calling
As i was seeing them, in the millenary weather between the ancient borders of the two Castiles, the image of the jihadist barbarians smashing the Assyrian sculptures in Mosul came to mind.
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Jesus Malverde Chapel and the Santa Muerte, Saints narcos
"Jesús Malverde, Cuídame which behaves well, but also take care of me my naughty people .... because just we come and be who we need you and believe in you ", asked one of his followers to this Mexican saint who has own prayer prayers. He and the Santa Muerte are protecting the narco esotericism that is mixed with religion.
The religion of men who believe in everything
Caodaists embrace the gods of Hinduism, to the teachings of Muhammad and the legacy of Jesus Christ. Are buddhist, Taoists and Confucianists. Its leaders claim to have received revelations from Shakespeare or Lenin. And Víctor Hugo is one of his saints.
Mix on the Lower East Side
[st] A good guy, Sergio Rosalen, who has been in New York for more than two years.…
Merida: blessed romans
The overwhelming history of Mérida comes to you as soon as you set foot in the amphitheater, an ellipsis of ancient stones that is a nod to the glorious past of Augusta Emerita, the former capital of the westernmost province of the Roman Empire.
Minimal Vietnam Stories
"Tengo que ir a dar de comer a mi marido”, Clay said. But Clay's husband had been dead for several years.. Even so, We saw her walk to the cemetery with some food and some cigarettes that she left at her late husband's grave.
Ben Gurion airport, Murphy's lair
The cursed seal of Guinea Bissau causes fear among the staff again and this time they have also discovered on the back page that of Mali. Once again, a council that looks like the Spanish Geographical Society is meeting, They try to determine if they are countries that can threaten national security.
A day of fishing in Da Nang.
Da Nang is not a normal city. It has that point of eccentricity that makes you smile, while strolling along a long beach, in which the Pacific crashes. We climb a hill where the statue of Lady Buddha stands still, stretched out in marble, with their 72 meters.
tales from new york
All the photos in these stories are taken with a wide-angle lens of 10-22 mm. You can't understand New York without a wide angle .
A trip to Tunisia despite attacks
[st] I traveled to Tunisia a month ago. Just one month after the attack on El Bardo Museum,…
Washington: yoga against bombs
Do you know that you are in a gay bar? He asked the guy sitting next to us on the square bar of a bar where everything around us were men ...
Dadaab: the ignored lament refugees
"Suddenly one day you will wake up and you realize you've been twelve years thinking that being a refugee is temporary. Twelve years", reflects bitterly Halim from Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in Africa.
The burning night of Hoi An
As night falls, the street stalls glow with hundreds of lanterns, lamps that illuminate the passage of foreigners towards the river. And the street vendors, children usually, They meet the bewildered tourist to sell him a candle, an illusion to cast into the river.
A skeptic in front of the tomb of Cervantes
During three days, the nuns opened their doors for the solace of the curious, credulous and skeptical eager to pay literary homage to don Miguel, Whether or not its remains are what shelter that niche. Did I claim a certificate of authenticity when I walked through the snow in the Prague cemetery on my way to Kafka's grave??
Kruger: shattered the night sky
Suddenly, I felt the wind on his face shaking. He got a smell of wet earth, calving ground for, a night sky torn. I noticed in the distance were some rays. They seemed lost, distant, unattainable. Soon it was also the sound. You could hear the thunder from the horizon. He quickly became far closer. The rain began to unload with force. The air was heavy with the smell of entrails. And suddenly, in the midst of those hard days, difficult, occurred sublime, magic.
Aberdares: the hotel-tree crowned queen
Getting up early in the morning turned into the sovereign of one of the first powers of the world is an experience available to very few mortals, but doing more than 7.000 miles of Buckingham Palace, in the middle of the Aberdare Mountains Kenya, is indeed a privilege.
Apulia: medieval villages along with magnificent beaches
The traveler began a long road for unknown Italy. From Naples to La Puglia. More 500 car miles through places that are off the traditional tourist route. We're headed in the more rural Italy, attached to the sea and away from the hordes of foreign tourists.
Peru Bus: praise of despair
The first trip was to last 20 hours, but it was extended to 36: first "hill he fell" -as they say in Peru when there is a shift of land-, then he fell another and then came the night, the tropical heat and despair.
Tribute to Nepal
Saris burdeos, emeralds and yellow that once wore a smiling women move today among the streets of Kathmandu stained with blood and mud. Children, always present, mourn their parents today, and parents desperately search for their children. I want to dig into my memories of that wonderful trip I made to Nepal, as a tribute to those who suffer so much today.
Route through unknown Rome
But out of all that universe that is the center of the Italian capital, there is another Rome that is unknown to tourists. Live at a lower rate, sometimes even the miracle of lack of noise occurs. Close, sometimes it can be conquered on foot and sometimes a car is necessary, Silently emerges next to the great Rome and becomes a whim, in beauty and rest.
The anteroom
"Peaceful", he told me over and over. Pacific sounds like salt and an island, to the endless sea and calm forged in water. It is just a word but it speaks to a time of peace and oceans although in the memory of my days, it's a visceral way of yearning; peaceful is almost a violent concept in the love of my steps.
Loarre: a castle in the Kingdom of Heaven
There are places where you belong without having to frequent them. I belong to Loarre, where my paternal grandfather was born, and I am very proud of that affiliation. I have been several times, not many, Maybe because I've always felt it so close that there was no need.
The highway of the Mayans
It was just a road. A creased line joining two points. Nothing. A twisting line. she was beautiful, different. A line. Nothing.
The most bombed city of History
Each 8 minutes a bomb fell in Lao. so during 9 years. They released 270 cluster bombs million, two tons of ammunition for each Laotian. And Laos was not even in war. Between 1964 and 1973, United States dropped more bombs on Laos than in all of World War II.
