Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Sudan: a route across the Nubian villages

"Nos dimos cuenta de que en el norte de Sudán hay un pueblo sin tiempo definido, barely sneaks into the destinations of travelers, whose history seems destined to be buried as his temples. But Ahmed opened the doors of his house, forever, unconditionally."

byDaniel Landa

2 September, 2013

Europe

Unrest: Chronic 48 Day Cruise

This up and down feelings driving me insane, crazy. For you, the ti, What do I do here? I have what I want and do not want, but I love him with all my heart. Why? What fails? This constant search, What?, I wonder endless times. Where do you stand, Reply? I'm constantly in your search but do not let on. I will follow up the life, What uneasiness!

byContributors

31 August, 2013

Africa

Ebrahim Hussein: la poesía como terapia

I picked up the book and began to leaf through. Then the patient looked at me. "¿De qué va?", I asked. "De amor", I said. And I noticed that I looked, expectant. "¿Quieres que te lea algo?", asked. He nodded.

byContributors

29 August, 2013

Ruta VAP: la tercera vía

That night we go almost all the legendary Gil Vicente to hear a local band some cheer after the 1908, cool bar from Maputo, until and late hours. Back at the hotel, on the avenue 24 July, a roadblock trying to cash. Want money because Txarli not carry the passport. Play hold me until he sees that no note and let me go. 100 meters later we stop other agents again ...

byJavier Brandoli

27 August, 2013

Fishing between hippos

Went fishing anything that fell into their networks: fry small river, crabs, hippos ... Uncertainty is part of breakfast in this region of Zambia and that morning we were invited to the feast.

byDaniel Landa

26 August, 2013

Ruta Vap, South Africa: crear un grupo

We crossed the border two cars and ten people who had no doubt, had become a group that would route some tests to demonstrate their unity. You were one and that was to say goodbye weeks later in Nampula, without the singular hinder anyone. "We got the hardest", I thought as we headed to Maputo.

byJavier Brandoli

23 August, 2013

New York: of rastro of the mafia in Little Italy

Little Italy is a haven of tranquility just meters from the boisterous bustle of Chinatown. Its quiet streets, few decades ago a meeting place for bosses and bullies, invite a route mafia memory of Little Italy New York.

byRicardo Coarasa

16 August, 2013

Nairobi: arrested 48 hours for not paying a bribe

Once more, The setback was wearing a police uniform. He informed me that he had offended the law, but failed to name infringement. In the last year I spent more than 700 euros in such things, which of course denounce "anti-corruption" and that, course, never solved. This time, shift the bastard asked me 15.000 ksh (150 EUR).

byMaria Ferreira

12 August, 2013

Buenos Aires: a look back

Buenos Aires always look back, to which was, what could be. Its inhabitants are able to move yearning for the past. The city is alive and yet he is dying of nostalgia in the corners.

byDaniel Landa

5 August, 2013

Market: the feast of fish

The place was bustling with people. The sun was out and the market was a party in a city in need of light. Helsinki is preparing for the winter reconnect with the days of just seven hours of light. Therefore, every sunny day is like a parting of two lovers facing imminent separation. The Sunday revelry can not hide that resignation to the inevitable.

byRicardo Coarasa

2 August, 2013

Culture in Havana: Pull off the beaten track!

Havana is a cultural universe that is often unknown, although there may be a small obstacle: meet the vast programming activities. Nothing that is not exceeded with interest.

byDiego Cobo

1 August, 2013

Great Migration: the greatest show of nature

Then, those in the mud out of the water and some babies retorceden looking for their mothers who did not cross. There's like a silence, a break, until suddenly a wildebeest, only one, starts running and drags behind him thousands of them to cross the waters again.

byJavier Brandoli

30 July, 2013

Ushuaia is not the end of the world

The Tierra del Fuego has name fable and legend encourages backpackers who decide to cross landscapes to the sea where they stopped. But when one reaches the southernmost city in the world, he deals with the unexpected jolt from the bustle of people.

byDaniel Landa

29 July, 2013

Monks Peak: the viewpoint of the Midi d'Ossau

The ski resorts in summer mourn the absence of snow. Its landscape is equally beautiful, but without the white winter the ski lifts, tows and artificial snowmaking cannons are grotesque, as resigned to the lethargy of the summer months. But, for the mountaineer, are always a starting point to walk to nearby peaks.

byRicardo Coarasa

26 July, 2013

No medicate the Leopard Man

When I was a kid and saw the bus shelters advertising plagued NGOs, I imagined something different. Something easier. More heroic. But working in Kenya means swallow the ego every day and assume you really do not know anything about anything.

byMaria Ferreira

25 July, 2013

The last nomads of the Sahel II: "School"

One day Malam and Gado's father and uncle decided to open the first Riskoi school project nomadic Sallaga, scarce resources between different clans mustered four months' salary of a teacher and built a roof under which students garrison ten days of rain a year that gives Sahel in Niger.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

24 July, 2013

Serengeti: perfection and the “piedrocerontes”

I imagine the man coming to camp, by the fire, and explaining to all that he had seen 654 Rhinos, which are stones that calculation could cross until he returned to his hotel. Who cares? One has the feeling that in the Serengeti one has the right to see what he wants.

byJavier Brandoli

23 July, 2013

Alien landscapes in southern Bolivia

"Los dichosos flamencos siempre llegan antes que yo. I had happened before in places where no human, lost mangroves in Mexico, in the marshes of Doñana, silvery lakes in Tanzania, zip on the islands of Mozambique ... there they were waiting for me to remind me that I was late."

byDaniel Landa

22 July, 2013

Kathmandu: confusion balance

In the square of Asan Tole, in the commercial epicenter of old Kathmandu, instantly felt that sudden dislocations and pleasurable feeling your routines and usually. Nothing I saw was like nothing I had ever seen.

byRicardo Coarasa

19 July, 2013

Makuyu, "Land of witches"

There are two things boundless in Makuyu health center: death and madness. Both are treated from the horror, incomprehension and denial. The first meaning is found through various religions and madness is explained in that society through curses, evil eyes, divine punishment ...

byMaria Ferreira

17 July, 2013

The last nomads of the Sahel (1): Riskoi

Sometimes you find that you track Aboca shadows, impossible in the past persecution, in every place where I land I seek a reality that vanished fifty years earlier. However I am convinced that no place can ever provoke the same impression that I suffered in those first hours of Tanout spurred by paranoia and fear.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

16 July, 2013

The Uros: floating world

We left the port of Puno as one leaves the world of the living in search of a leaf water and floating islands more than 4.000 meters above sea level. Lake Titicaca is the spell of unlikely places.

byDaniel Landa

15 July, 2013

Playas de Zanzibar

I liked early and look out these beaches without towels, their horizons silk, to hypnotic Indian Twinkle, the dhows sparingly rocked by the ocean, a typical day on the beaches of Zanzibar.

byRicardo Coarasa

12 July, 2013

Asia

Mongolia: ice under the Empire of the Sun

Countless peaks in the distance are, glaciers and two imposing size just below our ... We are at a point almost treading Mongolian border, but very close to see China, Russia and Kazakhstan, !that last!

byContributors

10 July, 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