Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Villas do Indian: the prettiest tent sea

The site is cute, very pretty, carefully detailed rooms, excellent food restaurant and a pool and sea clear and warm water. But what I like is that I realized that the only rule that was imposed on me own and it was written: "Bother you in", said in a sign that no one painted.

byJavier Brandoli

1 May, 2013

Arequipa: a small Spain in the desert

Can not get to Arequipa without sand in your hair. The city is as hidden, misplaced between the Andes and the desert of Nazca, al on Perú. Crossed dunes, we looked to the Pacific, skirted the mountains and came to a version of Spain that got startle.

byDaniel Landa

29 April, 2013

Lions Ishasha trapeze

We look for big trees, one after another, with increasing frenzy. And when we got to the target, we surround, scrutinize the branches with joy believing child and we were startled guess a fading shadow.

byRicardo Coarasa

26 April, 2013

An endless world

Trollope and clubs: London essence

A good club is a haven from the vulgarities of the world, where coffee is not drunk in plastic cup with the Starbucks logo, but Worcester porcelain, and sugar served with silver spoons.

byMayte Touch

25 April, 2013

madness and humor

In a psychiatric hospital while bombs were falling sick went outside to hold the fireworks; in a market a group of soldiers who never flees terrified a city flat hearing gunshots they believe are ambushed.

byJavier Brandoli

23 April, 2013

Europe

Jouni: Does the last Saami in Lapland?

They say it is the first across the lake when it freezes and the last to go fishing before winter. They say they know until the last bend in the forest, who likes to disappear from time to time and has even had to deal with a bear.

byDaniel Landa

22 April, 2013

Sydney: The Phantom of the Opera

When I was seven I listed what I wanted in life. I can still see written in a fat and twisted: "Having a house and garden, helicopter ride, ir in Australia ... ".

byLaura Berdejo

21 April, 2013

Nyeri: el árbol de Wangari Maatahi

No champagne bottles uncorked not make any hasty call. Simply, planted a tree. He had just announced that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to get.

byRicardo Coarasa

19 April, 2013

Land of Adventure

Century of Mountaineering (IX): Bonatti, the mountains Achilles

His attitude to life, his honesty and uprightness before infamy and persecution they underwent Italian mountaineer have made one of the essential ethical mountaineering references of all time.

bySebastián Álvaro

18 April, 2013

Philippines: story without a moral

I would like to thank the weirdo guy not named Nilson. And it often, a setback leads to an infinitely better than what we had planned. And lying on a beach tan paradise was a good plan, but being adopted by a Filipino family was infinitely better. Thanks how is your name.

byOlga Moya

17 April, 2013

Dialogues with Maputo

The early morning assault on the imagination Maputo. The wind stands still at the gates of his gray ash beach while lonely dogs prepare to go to sleep unmanned what they come over. Then the city, during the few minutes that the light is denouncing everything for the first time, boiling between the roar of thousands of people who do not know where to go.

byJavier Brandoli

16 April, 2013

Yosemite, the great work of Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente American

"El gran espectáculo es eterno. Always, by somewhere, the sun shines; dew never entirely becomes dry; glide steadily falls from heights. Eternal sunshine, eternal sunset, Eterna continuo, eternal twilight. This is Yosemite."

byDaniel Landa

15 April, 2013

Kiss of God 5.416 meters

They say those who know the mountain, to cross the passage of Thorung The, must arrive before nine o'clock. Then he unleashed a wild wind so there is no way through it without putting human lives at risk. That's why the latest escalation, the final, starts at three o'clock.

byContributors

14 April, 2013

Canal Roya: rackets, avalanches and a leak

We want to reach, this morning disconcerting late March, a shepherd's hut by the river, where many years turned (so many that I perish contarlos) share with the inevitable rebellion that it presupposes a teenager.

byRicardo Coarasa

12 April, 2013

Two months in Havana: respect to different

The alien is still the focus of attention; a claim, in the end, money to be able to get something. To which I refer is the way we act and integrate without passing the line of respect for the different.

byDiego Cobo

11 April, 2013

Spain

Guadalupe and history of the Camino Real

A place visited kings, potato, conquerors like Columbus and Hernán Cortés and even illustrious writers such as Cervantes de Unamuno or, He walked up the Guadalupe virgin to give the chains that had been locked in the dungeons of Oran, as recorded in the books of the monastery visit.

byContributors

10 April, 2013

Girls soldier: his tale of horror

[st] They had 11, 14 and 15 years. Three girls, three soldiers. Three stories silent, buried for 20 years…

byJavier Brandoli

9 April, 2013

Seoul: taekwondo punches and free hugs

When a Sunday morning we went for a walk with a guy appeared Insadong vocation angel offering hugs to passers bereaved. How could I refuse a tax free hug any street in Korea!

byDaniel Landa

8 April, 2013

Jodhpur, India: the land of death

Then, come to my ears musical notes and a voice begins to sing. A few feet away from me a young, only child, wearing a traditional costume plays dirulba, a stringed instrument. He is accompanied by a letter that looks like a lament or, at least, gave me melancholy.

byEduardo De Winter

7 April, 2013

Baltoro: Journey to the Center of the Earth

If I enter a deep crack in the earth, planet in between masses of rock that I nearly enclose thousands of feet above me what is the object of my visit?

byEduardo Martinez de Pison

5 April, 2013

Land of Adventure

Century of Mountaineering (VIII): the conquest of the giants

The history of the conquest of the great mountains of the world would suffer a dramatic turnaround. Today we are able to say that those years involved a golden age in the conquest of the highest mountains on Earth.

bySebastián Álvaro

4 April, 2013

Mae Ra Moe, prison without bars

They had sad stories, many-separated families, parents dead, villages burned, years living in hiding in the forest-, but with the ease of explaining who is speaking from his own life and. They were used to it at all but resigned. Conversely: this is a place where, above all, hope endures. It is a sad and defeated.

byOlga Moya

3 April, 2013

The story of the soldier raped the girls was missing a photo

I had nothing interesting story of how they were abducted, raped and turned into soldiers with only 11 years. Their lives make you blanch. As we have, what have ... But people do not read and this is a story of words, theirs, which still lacks a striking photo.

byJavier Brandoli

2 April, 2013

Cartagena de Indias to the rhythm of light

The first tour of the city mixed the sweet smell of fruit salads, street rhythms with the sound of the drums and the festival of colors painted on the facades. Light and flowers welcomed us, because Cartagena is dressed and joy at dawn and never rests.

byDaniel Landa

1 April, 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