Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Which way turn the sink water in Ecuador?

That is the question. The video we've included today shows an experiment that took place in the line of Ecuador, and Kenya. They call it the Coriolis effect, water spinning in either direction depending on the hemisphere in which one finds. I'll let you be the images that speak for themselves

byDaniel Landa

14 Oct., 2013

Anayet Ibones: reasons to be reincarnated into a cow

The land surrounding the water is impregnated ibón and boots sink like walking on a sponge. A herd of horses carefree paste a few feet of us. The scene could not be more bucolic. Almost makes you want to be reincarnated into a cow.

byRicardo Coarasa

11 Oct., 2013

Africa

Ethiopia: stars that dim

The head of the southern tribes in the past that portrays Don McCullin disguises himself today, charges a dollar for the photo and ask politely that it sent to the email you will see on your business card

byContributors

10 Oct., 2013

Ruta VAP (VIII): sleep in the "worst" hotel in the world

Have water?, asked. “No, no water, "he said quietly as the two we lay on a plastic couch office whose ceiling had a crack that threatened to collapse on our heads.

byJavier Brandoli

8 Oct., 2013

Acapulco: flying men

Acapulco sounds like "Love Boat", teaches stiff smile of the waiters and hotel smelling of salt and old. The city has lost every battle against impossible beaches of Cancun, their radioactive blue and girls dancing in the streets, at daybreak.

byDaniel Landa

7 Oct., 2013

South Georgia: the footsteps of Shackleton (III)

A Spanish ship, the Lion, was the first to sight, in 1753, South Georgia, the crews christened San Pedro, an island that James Cook described as a "wild and terrible" to "not worth

bySebastián Álvaro

6 Oct., 2013

South Georgia: the footsteps of Shackleton (II)

They were caught in the worst place in the world, more than 15.000 miles from home, no means to communicate and knowing that no one would come to rescue them

bySebastián Álvaro

5 Oct., 2013

South Georgia: the footsteps of Shackleton (In)

Our expedition, sponsored by Halconviajes.com, try to repeat the incredible adventure of one of the greatest polar explorers nearly a hundred years . It will be our special tribute to Shackleton.

bySebastián Álvaro

4 Oct., 2013

Brixton: Africa under the London sky

I love that smell of fish markets coated in salt; where cattle hanging still hot; snails and frogs are sold live in large plastic buckets; where the sidewalks are broken and suspicious river colored water runs into the sewer.

byMayte Touch

3 Oct., 2013

Ruta VAP (VII): hauling time Malawi

In Malawi one has almost tempted to go back. Getting to the border, turn the car and walk it back down to understand. The country suffers from this evil that bleeds Africa is supporting their greedy leaders after its voracious colonies supported.

byJavier Brandoli

2 Oct., 2013

Back to Medina: Traveler's selective memory

The traveler's willingness brand experiences, the largely molded to fit their judgments / prejudice. It is inevitable. Few are, and very wise, those who are far from routine travel willing to change their perceptions and remove them from the inside.

byRicardo Coarasa

27 September, 2013

Santa Clara and the spirit of Che Guevara

Here, Higuera unlike, the people of Bolivia where Che was murdered and whose claim operates more intensity every 9 October, legend roars between the streets and in the imagination when the visitor hovers between the intricacies of the biography of a universal symbol.

byDiego Cobo

26 September, 2013

Ruta VAP (WE): the worst day of the trip

[st] We had almost called for trouble by announcing so many times that there was a route before Vilanculos and…

byJavier Brandoli

24 September, 2013

A world of ice

"El viajero siempre se va de allí más pequeño, quieter, because the glaciers are by definition immense and silent. Imposes its colossal size and if they get split, its only thunder sticks in the memory as a centuries crunch impossible to forget."

byDaniel Landa

23 September, 2013

Africa

How to Write in Africa?

Three and half years later retrieve text that was the beginning of the blog that writes Javier Brandoli since then in Africa. What do you think about these words? Are there topics also of Africans in how they look to Westerners? We VaP. open this debate on how to understand and explain this continent.

byContributors

22 September, 2013

Travels with Reverte Africa

Javier Reverte returns to Africa, pero this time tú puedes acompañarle. The master tour travel literature's most iconic places in Uganda and Kenya 27 al of December 6 de enero liderando la ruta "Coloquios en la hoguera".

byvap

21 September, 2013

The coast of the promises

As we approach we find a de-miners camp. Overnight stay with them and, while chatting with these young, was hard to avoid the view of the board with photos of their fellow murderers mine victims. Now, every time we saw a sign for "Danger Mines" we entered a escalofrío.

byVincent Marian Plédel and Ocaña

19 September, 2013

Ruta VAP (In): the beauty of the Gorongosa

Green grass onrushing clear water surrounded by land red at times reflected in your slides. It is surrounded by mature trees with branches laden wind. Along its shores and as far as the eye, are scattered hundreds of waterbuck, impalas, birds ... who stop to look at you with awe.

byJavier Brandoli

18 September, 2013

The fake virgin girls photo and King depraved

What else did the rest when you have everything you need to tell the story that everyone wants to hear: that of Africa's last absolute monarch and thousands of young half-naked to which he uses at will. The photograph, this photo, I already spoke for itself ...

byJavier Brandoli

17 September, 2013

Northern Cape, where it ends Europe

"La esfera que marca la latitud de 71º 10' 16''N es la representación antigua del movimiento de las estrellas alrededor de la Tierra y precisamente allí, the traveler who rests the miles of road can see the midnight sun does not want to hide in the horizon."

byDaniel Landa

16 September, 2013

Rolando Gap: the bow of Ordesa

La Brecha de Rolando, a stone wall straddling Spain and France split in two by a freak of nature, is one of those places steeped in myths mountaineers where a child can effortlessly smell the smell of adventure.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 September, 2013

Ruta VAP (IV): the grotesque military convoy

For weeks there was no civilian casualties and the army had put a military convoy vehicles we heard all kinds of stories. None resembled reality.

byJavier Brandoli

10 September, 2013

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.

byRicardo Coarasa

6 September, 2013

Ruta VAP (III): the flight of the flamingos

They saw octopus, garopas large, the coral sea a fund lost, foreshortened fish, The Nautilus, Nemo and niece Neptune second siren now converted into light some helmets resting on a deep rock. Anything is possible if you want to brush solitude in which the wind blows without disturbing the eyes.

byJavier Brandoli

3 September, 2013

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