Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

1336 articles

The story of Las Vegas (In)

An oriental American fifties was my opponent. Beside me, a fat guy with a cap and two hands with ten fingers six hundred grams each would witness. I changed 100 U.S. dollars. She began to letters. Everything went very fast. The fat guy on my side asked for a beer. I ordered two napkins and water to wipe one coffee stain. He looked at me wistfully, like my coffee disturb his beer. I did. I was ashamed.

byJavier Brandoli

2 Oct., 2015

Kenya: the charm of diamonds on water

Every time I immerse myself in this turquoise sea feel an unusual pleasure and I feel that the universe is giving me something, a caress sea, of silence, of peace.

byMayte Touch

30 September, 2015

Liquid water on Mars. Now

There is liquid water on Mars. Now. Flowing, as flowing streams in the Sierra de Guadarrama or streams in the Pyrenees, or at least that it flows in our imaginary, the same in which the Martians are green, They have antennas and hands with three fingers and suction cups to the end.

byLaura Berdejo

29 September, 2015

Asia

Jordan: beyond Petra and Rania

After the attack on the Twin Towers, eg, archaeologists took advantage of the tranquility to continue excavating inside the main temple of Petra..

byContributors

28 September, 2015

A Place in the World

Grand Canyon: when there is no one left…

The first time I saw it it was a shadow. We had just been late with our car from Las Vegas, almost 400 km, and they told us that the park opened 24 hours. We went to not see it.

byJavier Brandoli

25 September, 2015

Angkor: Wonder among the wonders

There are times when a man feels, Without remedy, overwhelmed. It happens with the death of others, with the announcement of a paternity, with a trip to the end of the world, with war, with an unmistakable love ... and it happens with the temples of Angkor.

byDaniel Landa

23 September, 2015

Words of Buenos Aires words

"Hay pintadas. Graffiti that slaps you like epiphanies in many streets of Buenos Aires. In elegant neighborhoods and in neighborhoods that are not so elegant, in mixed corners and in abandoned walls. There are phrases that hit you in the middle of the walk, releasing a verse that sticks to you like a mole."

byLaura Berdejo

21 September, 2015

Lecherines Cave: in search of ice

There is something special about going in search of the ice while Spain melts. There are fewer and fewer snow fields that resist the summer season in the Pyrenees, but, And the ice? To find it you have to enter the bowels of the mountain range.

byRicardo Coarasa

18 September, 2015

The dead in silence

She was orphaned with seven years; it was passed from hand to hand of his relatives; those same relatives enslaved her and tried to prostitute; suffered beatings and hunger; ran away from his last house, third, from an aunt; started living on a bridge under a plastic tarp with other children; se drogaba ...

byJavier Brandoli

16 September, 2015

Paris, at first light

There is an hour in paris, around 6:28, depending on the season, in which the city begins to open up and emits, as if it were an alien object, a magnetic radiation that forces, day after day, Month after month, year after year that passes, to wish to see her be born again.

byLaura Berdejo

14 September, 2015

Tulum turtles

Nobody has explained to them that some ruins should not become a flea market because the politician who must decide to kick them out lives on their votes and the tourist is always a passing bird that perhaps, in the worst case, Make a criticism on your travel blog that your brothers have not confessed that they do not read it either.

byJavier Brandoli

9 September, 2015

America

Red and black in Managua

It was a real slaughter. One of the largest massacres against civilians in history. How could it be that no one knew how to give me an address?? I walked with the feeling of not being able to escape from the sun nor from oblivion.

byContributors

6 September, 2015

Hell beauty of the Turkana

The Magic caldera of a volcano covered with vegetation and water, warlike tribes of yesteryear, a desert and a lake where there should be no life, an old German who unknowingly commits suicide and a mythical track by passing the great voyages of Africa. The Turkana and its surroundings are not a place over the planet.

byJavier Brandoli

31 August, 2015

Lohamei Hagetaot: the voice of the Warsaw Ghetto

A few miles from the border with Lebanon, in the Western Galilee overlooking the Mediterranean, Lohamei is HaGetaot, the kibbutz, which perpetuates the memory of the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto.

byRicardo Coarasa

28 August, 2015

Accommodation most charming southeastern Africa

One goes through dozens of hotels where you sleep and leave a piece of your time. Most are used and march, even very good. It is not a question of quantity or quality, It is magic that brings you back to places.

byJavier Brandoli

25 August, 2015

The memory of Spanish San Francisco

California boasts an ancient Spanish heritage forgotten, too often, on either side of the Atlantic. Past trips this time proposing a route from San Francisco to Caramel tracked by the U.S. west coast that memory of famous adventurers.

byRicardo Coarasa

21 August, 2015

Maurice Island: no news from Africa

The world seemed to swing in a calm without fanfare in which even the storms seemed programmed to not disturb excessively. I have written many times, sometimes with some literature, odors from place. There is nothing poetic, Mauricio smelled as sugar is down in some areas of the car window. It was a sweet smell and violent.

byJavier Brandoli

20 August, 2015

Lisbon: the city of shadows

The city of light seduced me especially in the dark, when the evening sun languished between the enigmatic horizon of the Cais de Colunas or slowly melted through the peeling walls of Alfama.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 August, 2015

Around the World 3 minutes

They return as lightning images from those days, snippets of Adventure, landscapes of the world. I try to build the wall of sensations, but it is impossible to order the chaos of a two-year journey, because the heart is not made to hold so many emotions.

byDaniel Landa

10 August, 2015

Jaguar legend light

The legend of the distant hills humid jungle of Oaxaca says, "is half man and half beast. You do not hear when it arrives. The lands of the people belong to Lachixila grandchildren grandfather jaguar "

byJavier Brandoli

6 August, 2015

There are no bicycles in Saigon

All the peoples of the world, what things, tend to heal wounds, turn pages and open restaurants. No one uses a bicycle in Saigon. The hum of motorcycles has been extinguishing the magic of another time, the noise of the street markets ... and the thunderous memory of war.

byDaniel Landa

3 August, 2015

Kenya: Bye Bye Obama

Obama was, and traffic returned to the streets invade. Jams turned to despair anyone and US flags began to disappear gradually.

byMaria Ferreira

31 July, 2015

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.

byRicardo Coarasa

27 July, 2015

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.

byJavier Brandoli

23 July, 2015

"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
Of the ruins of the empires: Asia's adjustment with European colonialism	9,45/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,40/10
"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
"Pilgrims of beauty": Italy and Greece Bacanal	9,20/10
"Travel with Charley": Raw portrait of the US 60	9,05/10
Winter notes on summer impressions: Dostoevsky in front of the mirror	8,90/10
The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
Strengthen the foundation: Africa raises its voice	8,15/10
My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country	6,25/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10