Cinco años de VaP

A selection of the best reports that we have published over the last three years on Viajesalpasado.com

13 articles

De nagarkot a Changu Narayan: Nepal at ground

I did not want to leave Nepal without kicking the hills surrounding Kathmandu, not look out of their villages, the daily lives of the people of tillage, Legion here. It is an undemanding walk, of those now called trekking, from Nagarkot and Changu Narayan Temple. A real treat.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 May, 2015

Torres del Paine: alone with the Patagonia

Se lo dijo Jorge Luis Borges a Paul Theroux, from writer to writer, before he put an Southbound South American continent, who had crossed from end to end: "In Patagonia there is nothing. Not the Sahara, but it is the closest you can find in Argentina. Not, in Patagonia there is nothing ".

byRicardo Coarasa

1 April, 2015

In the cradle of Patagonia

I looked at that plateau. I could not believe that there had been born in Patagonia. Sure ... I owe an explanation to the reader. Patagonia was born there but the myth of Patagonia as a wild and mysterious. I was in Puerto San Julian in the search, as always, of stories, anecdotes and wild. There, against the infinite blue of the Atlantic, are given both: history and nature.

byGerardo Bartolomé

16 November, 2013

A Day in the Death Road

Bolivia is full of cliffs, carriers and unpaved roads. Poor mixing. The crossing guard one of the most breathtaking trips in America and his name does not help to relax the gesture at the wheel. The Highway of Death is a path of mud and stone that wind through the foothills of the Yungas.

byDaniel Landa

11 November, 2013

The 7 world's most beautiful waterfalls

Jumping vacuum, rivers that are split, water flights. Cataracts are merely geographical, cracks, ruptures, shocks ... but this chaos is perhaps the most beautiful of nature disasters.

byDaniel Landa

28 Oct., 2013

Top 7 / Empty beaches

The concept of an empty beach often inspire images reminiscent of coconut, white sand and a sea in which you see your feet while looking for shells. But today I propose that we move away from the Postcards and give up the topic.

byDaniel Landa

21 Oct., 2013

Pastrana De Pinto: the final route of the Princess of Eboli

What municipalities have in common and Santorcaz Pinto Madrid with Castilian-Manchego Pastrana? Above all, the look of a woman, the most famous one-eyed history of Spain, most abused patch that empire where the sun never set.

byRicardo Coarasa

6 September, 2013

Marble chapel and the theft of River Phoenix

Over 150 years, Argentina and Chile fought the Andes of Patagonia. Complaints, charges, traps and even threats were used on dozens of issues in dispute. Along with my wife went to visit one of the most controversial points of this frontier.

byGerardo Bartolomé

14 August, 2013

Buenos Aires: a look back

Buenos Aires always look back, to which was, what could be. Its inhabitants are able to move yearning for the past. The city is alive and yet he is dying of nostalgia in the corners.

byDaniel Landa

5 August, 2013

The last place on earth: Borneo Jungle

An area and a culture whose visit is restricted to tourism and only accessible by air or walking near 500 miles through a spectacular forest, yet, the planet. (...) The ascent begins very early Murud. Along with Joe Layan, Guia mi Kelabit, we start the ascent of their sacred mountain and looking for traces of the Penan, the original inhabitants of Borneo, real men of the jungle (...) For Juan Ramon Morales.

byJuan Ramon Morales

11 July, 2013

Bloukrans: a jump of 216 meters

"They are 7 you 8 seconds of free fall, "he tells me a bald guy with hands in pockets, as he tells me the direction of a pharmacy. “Ah, Look how well, and gives me time to remember all your family "I think, already affected by nervous tension.

byDaniel Landa

5 May, 2013

Kiss of God 5.416 meters

They say those who know the mountain, to cross the passage of Thorung The, must arrive before nine o'clock. Then he unleashed a wild wind so there is no way through it without putting human lives at risk. That's why the latest escalation, the final, starts at three o'clock.

byContributors

14 April, 2013

Lake Yamdrok: Buddhist monastery that saved the woman-pig

En route to Everest, the fascinating Lake Turquoise looked three centuries ago, by the highest mountain range on earth, the most famous female reincarnation of Tibet. It is a landscape that is impregnated overwhelming mysticism that surrounds the corners that the mountains have taken to silence.

byRicardo Coarasa

8 February, 2013

“A possible life”: The scar left by memory	9,25/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10