Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Grow old in Kenya

We could be in any city in the world. Everything is friendly, but we started talking, relaxed, and Mina anecdote tells how he was kidnapped last week. goodbye jazz, Goodbye friendly atmosphere, goodbye wonderful spring temperature.

byMaria Ferreira

28 November, 2014

Spain
Europe

Estremadura: Route of the Conquerors

Hand of the protagonists of the conquest of America, most born in Extremadura, I load my backpack to travel the route of the conquistadors, those characters who took their name and their peoples in the New World

byContributors

27 November, 2014

Mozambique, ten images

Mozambique was my home for more than two and a half years. A country full of contrasts that wander between diluted or reborn. It can be the great jewel of South Africa if they decide to really bet on it. Mozambique must decide what it wants to be.

byJavier Brandoli

26 November, 2014

The experience of the landscape

Jules Verne's land

Those landscapes that represent the essence of Verne's Earth have mountains that suggest the best beauty of the Planet, caves that shine like diamonds, erupting volcanoes that amaze their spectators, frozen regions where the poetry of desolation is found...

byEduardo Martinez de Pison

25 November, 2014

the steep faith

The Hanging Temple is supported by wooden columns on a wall 75 meters from the ground, in which no sane architect would have thought of building anything habitable. Or maybe it was a genius idea.

byDaniel Landa

24 November, 2014

Hells Blues: the geography of words

There is a geography of words that seduces with the same intensity as maps and stories that open suitcases and close prejudices. It is a geography of resounding and enigmatic names, of words that inevitably attract you before you even place them in a world ball.

byRicardo Coarasa

21 November, 2014

America
Asia

Kazakhstan, Argentina and positive phototaxis

In Argentina a cougar ate an armadillo, I collected his tail and now a kazakh wolf lives in my chest. how do you explain this?

byContributors

20 November, 2014

Botswana, ten images

Botswana parks are legendary for their nearly perfeccción. The Okavango is a flooded desert water that should not be missed. Nothing makes sense in that place. Nxai Pan one of the best kept secrets of this continent.

byJavier Brandoli

19 November, 2014

Beijing, the marathon

"Un hombre gritaba a su mujer, the customs officers were unfriendly and soon I began to hear the concert of throat clearing and spitting, habitual and incomprehensible practice of the Chinese of all genders and conditions."

byDaniel Landa

17 November, 2014

Memories of Africa Javier Reverte

The trip is Out of Africa, primarily, a beautiful story, full of magic, which it has the power to excite the traveler and make your experience last forever. A classic that never grow old.

byJavier Reverte

16 November, 2014

Oceania

Cape Reinga: towards the seas sacred Maori

[st] Cape Reinga is the northernmost point of the North Island of New Zealand. can't…

byContributors

13 November, 2014

bears, flowers, pastry, only, museums and volcanoes

The bear shook the water, centrifuged. It was there, favorite teddy for children, the nightmare for campers and a god for ainus. We saw him behind the security of a fence and we kept going, moving away from Akan lake.

byDaniel Landa

10 November, 2014

South Africa, ten images

[st] 1.- Sangomas, animism, sorcery. dos sangomas (healers) They sang and danced while preparing what was known as "African beer."…

byJavier Brandoli

6 November, 2014

Chicken blood against ebola: Damn healers!

Why an AIDS-infected man can rape his daughter because he believes that having sex with a virgin girl will cure? Belief play a causal role in behavior, and there are behaviors that can not be respected or understood. A wretch who performs ablation her daughter is a miserable, it protect him in the belief that protect him.

byMaria Ferreira

4 November, 2014

In search of the last ainu

We reached Hokkaido under the sea. A tunnel separates the two most important islands in Japan and a train sneaks between the fish to appear on the other side, north, where common sense starts to turn around.

byDaniel Landa

3 November, 2014

Serra da Estiva: peace in the heights

You have to try to go back to the places where nature has rejected you or has tried to confuse you. A wrong way, threatening storm clouds or an unexpected mishap are only a aside, a few steps postponed for an undated day.

byRicardo Coarasa

31 Oct., 2014

Don Quixote cycling through Alaska

My journey started cold. I had decided to tour for five weeks 1.600 kilometers through these lands by bicycle, with no company other than a tent, the saddlebags packed with food and four pairs of socks.

byDiego Cobo

30 Oct., 2014

Africa: in the last things

My brother, a great guy who sees life with some clarity by removing decorations, He once told me something that I never forgot the first time I left here: "Africa was your dream, was the legitimate. For all those who do not dare keep your dream ". And I listened to him, although sometimes it cost a little, and i dreamed.

byJavier Brandoli

29 Oct., 2014

Following the trail of the samurais

"Mi poca destreza culinaria tuvo que servir de almuerzo a mis compañeros de expedición, that after being forced to record my folly when cutting the noodles, They had, also, Tell them."

byDaniel Landa

27 Oct., 2014

Inhambane: You will not ask water to the thirsty

That woman coming towards us with plastic bottle filled behaved, truly, as if your tap water and always come out that hospitality that we have long forgotten admired me and, at the same time, disconcerted me.

byRicardo Coarasa

24 Oct., 2014

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Asia

Yangon: the temples of saffron revolution

The temples of the Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon were the scene of saffron revolution seven years ago, when the monks rose up against the dictatorship by barrier between the military and the people. Today walk calm and smiling to the traveler protected by their umbrellas to match the habit.

byMaría Traspaderne

23 Oct., 2014

Kyoto in the eyes of a geisha

Then Kashia appeared. He wore a traditional light green suit, He wore an ungainly hairstyle, A discreet headdress and the painted face of a white angel color. The serenity of his presence left a wake of silences in his path.

byDaniel Landa

20 Oct., 2014

Menorca: the island of breaks

With the days, me di cuenta de que esa sublimación del "xano, xano" (little by little, unhurried) throbbed throughout Menorca, hovering over its people as an ideal of conduct that scatters breaks and drives away precipitations and shocks.

byRicardo Coarasa

17 Oct., 2014

Mongolia: the green desert of the Gobi

I don't want any more canned food and I go to a ger, typical Mongolian house, Round, covered with tarpaulins and insulated with filter (sheep hair). Inside there are two girls, the older brother and the mother. I put my hand to my mouth to indicate that I want to eat

byAlicia Sornosa

16 Oct., 2014

Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	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