The last place on earth: Borneo Jungle
A sacred mountain, a jungle and its secrets
Cinco años de VaP
A selection of the best reports that we have published over the last three years on Viajesalpasado.com
12 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.
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 ".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
