Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Amboseli: Revenge of the Kilimanjaro

Amboseli has a gift. Waking up every day in the lap of Kilimanjaro, the roof of Africa, is the gift that nature has blessed you. A gift and a paradox. It is curious that the main attraction of the second most visited park in Kenya, after the renowned Masai Mara, you get up in the land of Tanzania, the neighboring country.

byRicardo Coarasa

22 November, 2013

Lamido endless copulation, the elder 120 years

[st] "Of course it's easy, There is only Allah and you want to help a little ",…

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

20 November, 2013

The tribe of "La Roja"

[st] April 2013. A ball is bouncing lost Paradise Beach in Vilanculos. Mozambique. A group…

byJavier Brandoli

19 November, 2013

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

Two hours in Amsterdam

Aterricé and Amsterdam, after two weeks in Kenya, with a piece of my heart still wandering the savannah, with Masai dirt on the sole of my shoes...

byRicardo Coarasa

14 November, 2013

Africa

Abandonado y sólo en medio de la selva

Here people disappear like coming out of the film and says goodbye with a farewell. We were three and I am now one, a few hours ago the party consisted 8 and anytime we can to be two, leopard and.

byContributors

13 November, 2013

Photo Safari Masai Mara by

The Masai Mara is the park most recorded and photographed Africa. VAP photos we present the fruit three-day safari in this nature reserve. Enough said.

byJavier Brandoli

12 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

Vasa: the redemption of a fiasco

I have always been more interested in the trail that a defeat leaves than that of a triumph.. A loser has more backrooms and is lavish in edges. Therefore, the story of a ship launched with salutes of honor that sinks on its first voyage, without even leaving the port, it aroused sympathy in me.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 November, 2013

Qandil Camp: walk free by Masai Mara

ntonces hear crisp and close the howl of a hyena. He seems to be behind the wooden fence that protects me. I listen laughter disturbing the mammal. I stop one second, I smile. I am passionate about the African wild. There, in Kandili it is, real, open, sincere. I close the tap and now I hear sounds in plural, are several.

byJavier Brandoli

6 November, 2013

The spectacle of poverty: come and see

Poverty has become a commodity, Gentlemen. Perhaps to blame the false belief that misery is true, absolute. But even that: Now the misery is manipulated and makeup, becoming increasingly melodramatic dyes.

byMaria Ferreira

5 November, 2013

The hidden city of the Maya

Almost in whispers told us that the Mirador was the greatest legacy of the Maya, that beyond Tikal, hidden in the jungle are the ruins swallowed by weeds, a city larger than Chichén Itzá, Palenque oldest, most forgotten that all.

byDaniel Landa

4 November, 2013

Lago Nakuru: the fault of Robert Redford

Las imágenes de la avioneta de Robert Redford planeando sobre las aguas del lago en "Memorias de África" have meant the best tourist promotion you can imagine.

byRicardo Coarasa

1 November, 2013

From Havana to Santiago: flood, and revolution are

Talking about eastern Cuba is talking about colonization (This is where Columbus appeared for the first time), of resistance and independence, economic and cultural development, policy, of revolution and, finally, History. A trip to Santiago feeds all that.

byDiego Cobo

31 Oct., 2013

Europe

Istanbul: just with my backpack

Alone on Turkish soil. Just over fifteen thousand kilometers left me alone with Europe. All for me. As I head to my destination, I realize that the city is huge and that it was once walled. In Buenos Aires there are no walls, thought.

byContributors

30 Oct., 2013

Immoral bribe to cure malaria

Cover, we gave him 200 MZN (5 EUR). I felt terrible. I'm ethically against all such arrangements fucking destroy this land. What to do? How to play the cards in a world without rules?

byJavier Brandoli

29 Oct., 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

Asia

Nomad's emotion

Every time I wake up in a new bed, in a different city, every time I hear different sounds than yesterday, I think for a moment that I still have to wake up, que no puede ser cierto".

byMiquel Silvestre

27 Oct., 2013

Naivasha: the voracious lake Rift

The rainy season had been prolific and Naivasha had an exultant look. A good stretch of the shore was flooded and suddenly was surprising to navigate between wooden fences, lampposts, palafitos wells and lost in the mangroves.

byRicardo Coarasa

25 Oct., 2013

Chickpeas and pumps in the old Colombo

From 1983 a 2009 attacks, car bombs and suicide girls were the daily norm. And with them a feeling of generalized fear. Everything in town was arrested. Everything? Not. In a small open an old tradition remained oblivious to the fear and prudence of that time; Sunday Galle Face Green.

byAlex Zurdo

23 Oct., 2013

Ruta VAP (X): the opinion of travelers

All I have narrated VaP. route I, Javier Brandoli, for nine post. It was from my perception from where the journey has been told, trying to reflect what they lived. Today, to put the finishing touch to this beautiful adventure, they are, my fellow, those who take the word.

byJavier Brandoli

22 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

Ouagadogou and shooting stars

The driver brakes suddenly, all senses alert. Curfew, curfew!, screams as he turns. But what makes? The rumor sounds dangerously close and I can now identify the noise Shots!

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

16 Oct., 2013

Ruta VAP (IX): arrived on the island with no time

when I imagined this whole project not imagine traveling with eight people from the category of Victor Hugo, Amaia, Txarli, Rosa, Irene, Martin, Lino and Monica, Traveled with eight good people who want to share a dream, I was just one more, the writer of this text, and therefore I'm Javier, the ninth of this group who crossed Africa, Malaui y Mozambique.

byJavier Brandoli

15 Oct., 2013

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