Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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VaP route to Okavango: nine friends travel to Africa

We must be very lucky, always on expeditions VAP we said goodbye with hugs sincere. Then, when they go we were stunned and in return you look back thinking that this car is not mine. Somehow it costs continue traveling without them, without us.

byJavier Brandoli

1 May, 2014

Europe

Sarajevo: in the footsteps of war

First are the mountains. Dark, wolfish ripples, sprinkled with a trail of snow in the middle of April. There is still something evil in those sentinels who eagerly watch the bottom of the valley. Patient and attentive as if waiting for something and, for a moment you can almost understand...

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

30 April, 2014

"in dust and rain

José Luis Feliu decided to bring your camera to the corners of the world, on a two-year journey during which produced the documentary series A World Apart. We present the melting pot of emotions that form the exhibition "Everything is in the world", a collection of photographs that take us away from the city to put us walk the road, in symbolic contexts or isolated spots. A serene look that will take us to the ends of the planet.

byvap

28 April, 2014

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To the right starts the path that runs through the Canal de Izas, the great corridor that connects the valleys of Tena and Aragon and one of the most beautiful and lonely in the Pyrenees of Huesca. I have made the complete crossing twice, one summer and one in the middle of winter, and in both I have enjoyed that feeling of remoteness with which lonely horizons are blessed.

byRicardo Coarasa

25 April, 2014

Africa

Heroes of the Coptic Hospital

I would not save anyone because there is no one to save. Started an NGO wanting to be a hero and now just want to be happy, less so happy as people who wanted to help.

byContributors

23 April, 2014

Sudan: the world we all dream

Two kilometers later we were in one of those places that you never arrive and when you arrive you never forget. Those ruins of the Meroitic kingdom, continuator of the kingdom of Napata, they seem to have their roots in the desert sands that climb their rocks. Its 2300 years of life turned them into stone, in eagle, tree, lie or maybe in torch.

byJavier Brandoli

22 April, 2014

Asia

Leopard Syaphru: roads, looks and words

Since I crossed the Tibetan bridge that helped me overcome the Chopche River, Super that Thulo Syaphru iba to be special. The Houses Built Hill above told me that life here would not be easy either.

byContributors

16 April, 2014

There were people live in Wadi Halfa

There was a smell of sewage and drainage of misery. He had rotted remains of animals and huge crows flying over our heads with their throats screaming arid clouds. There was again a slow night and the air so thick that you used to block their ears.

byJavier Brandoli

15 April, 2014

Lago General Carrera, Blue between the Andes

I thought I had reached the Caribbean in the middle of the Andes. The water was a indigo blue on, sometimes turquoise and emerald tone in some banks. We move into the lake as one sees light at end of tunnel, almost by inertia, hypnotism plunged a shining water between snow-capped mountains.

byDaniel Landa

14 April, 2014

To the disappointing and beautiful Egypt

We went with the feeling of seeing a beautiful earth to be pieces that deserves a fresh start, today he does not deserve his inheritance (...) That morning on the pier of the boat that would take us to Sudan were thinking about all this while watching fights and beats by carts loaded, to earn money, more life to lose.

byJavier Brandoli

8 April, 2014

Chaos mystical Ulaanbaatar

Mongolia boasts solitudes, steppes that point to nowhere, horizons softly, where no regrets because both desert, simply, no one. It's like a country induced coma for its barren landscapes, a crossing, the echo of the shepherds, do not stop, perhaps not suddenly feel helplessness.

byDaniel Landa

7 April, 2014

Villuercas: the Appalachian Trail

This region keeps a memory of what the Earth was like 300 million years, when before the continents were formed a mountain range ran through it from present-day Canada to the Atlas. Now, This mountain range is divided among eleven countries that dream of signaling the Appalachian International Trail (BE).

byRicardo Coarasa

4 April, 2014

Machu Picchu: Empire Stone

The view of the city surrounded by impressive and covered by dense jungle hills slopes can not be described with simple words. Before trying to do it, I prefer to incite the reader to visit this magical place.

byGerardo Bartolomé

3 April, 2014

The man who invented women

And Abdul wrapped canvas, He delivered him and asked to change a single thing: "I give you this canvas with a unique condition, if you see somewhere you tell this woman that I'm looking for. You have to promise me you'll do "

byJavier Brandoli

1 April, 2014

In the shadow of the Torres del Paine

South of the world ends with an outburst. Where the Andes are ending, nature reserves a final festival of stones. We crossed the border of Chile and a farewell because the other side, only vicunas and rheas govern the untamed land of green lakes and mountains impossible.

byDaniel Landa

31 March, 2014

In lands gumuz

For centuries, the rases (old Ethiopian war lords) They stocked up on these lands slave, paying the eternal distrust of gumuz against their compatriots in the altiplano, led by amara (the dominant ethnic group in the country), a los que se refieren como "rojos" (for your skin clearer).

byRicardo Coarasa

28 March, 2014

Asia

Roads against setback

This could be the reading of a day where the unexpected became my best travel companion, a skid that tones, rebalances and makes us reconsider our place within the grand scheme of things.

byvap

26 March, 2014

The condemnation of the Cairo

We won with the tomb of Tutankhamen in the Egyptian Museum and we lost the military machine guns cleaned their tanks at the entrance. Always on alert, always ready to go. We won a regular meal in a nice part of the mighty Nile and we lost an unpleasant secret police control where we smelled up our wallets in search of drugs.

byJavier Brandoli

25 March, 2014

Zambezi: Eden browse

A canoe enough to traverse fangs. That was the plan, browse the most populous river beasts in the world, paddling between hippos and stealthily approached the buffalo and crocodiles. Africa live at water gives the traveler a sense of harmony tense, the pleasure of the wild.

byDaniel Landa

24 March, 2014

America

New York from above

New York is admired from below, but you can only understand it by looking over your shoulder, giving him back his arrogance, overcoming its infinite vertical strokes, to its giants of glass and concrete that seem ready to close on you at any moment with the fury of the biblical Red Sea.

byRicardo Coarasa

21 March, 2014

Spain

Valley of the Sugar Mills: Scars sugar

This valley is the symbol of the glorious heyday of the sugar industry. Located around the city of Trinidad, this immense plain of more than 200 square kilometers is no longer upholstered by sugar cane fields, But references from that past are kept alive.

byDiego Cobo

20 March, 2014

Diary of a war on the Turkish-Syrian border

Upon arrival we see again those three Syrian families who have been there for two days. They sit around a table with their children playing between the tables. They, All the men, They limit themselves to watching the news at all hours of a channel that does not stop talking about Syria and showing images of the war. They do it in silence, circling the screen, with due attention to listen to how others narrate their lives.

byJavier Brandoli

19 March, 2014

Cargo from Turkey trip to Egypt

We could not communicate with them almost, none spoke a word of English. Something that stretched around the boat and what we were accustomed. When we asked was for us Haifa and answered five, eight or one hundred, which it depended on believing that we questioned fingers in my hand or trucks that fit on the boat.

byJavier Brandoli

18 March, 2014

Medanos de Coro, beaches without the sea

Next to the place where tourists bathe their dreams, nature meets the winds of the sea to form one of the most absurd orographies of Venezuela. It is a tongue of sand that does not reach the coast, that runs out of beaches, a miniature desert, where coconut trees are supposed to rule.

byDaniel Landa

17 March, 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