Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Japan and the wounds of beauty

Me, Meanwhile ominous, I can think of in Japan, Japan only. And talk about an item on which the newspapers rightly, of course, have not spoken at all in these days: the delicate beauty that holds this country (...).

byJavier Reverte

30 March, 2013

Stockholm walk: top ten rides

At the top of the hill of Södermalm is my favorite place in Stockholm: the winding walk Monteliusvägen, who gives a great view of the city, and place conducive to hear promises of eternal love.

byRicardo Coarasa

28 March, 2013

Tazara: on-board copper

The convoy stops are eternal and give us time to tour wagons. The next to ours is like a refugee camp, people cooking in the ground, a pair of canvas stretched under which a child a few months slumbers between the tremendous din of his mother talking loudly and radios with music blaring.

byJuan Ramon Morales

27 March, 2013

In the tomb of Mido Macia

Gone are those two older women, dressed in tight black and piercing eyes that now with the sun's reflection seem deeply moist. Their eyes are deep, strange. Nothing, no people, no forgetting and silence. Mido's death is because only that, oblivion. No more time for him in life.

byJavier Brandoli

26 March, 2013

The story of the Indian who moved to Google Earth

It sometimes happens that someone gets up with the intention of changing the world. Very occasionally that someone perseveres against all odds. And can happen, that challenge the impossible, that person will get.

byDaniel Landa

25 March, 2013

Here was born the discoverer of the sources of the Blue Nile

Olmeda's village of artists (Many painters have set up residence here fleeing from the bustle of London and seeking the serenity that fuels the talents), of steep slopes and scenic serenity that invite. But for the traveler is, especially, the town of Pedro Páez, the discoverer of the Blue Nile Sources forgotten by all.

byRicardo Coarasa

22 March, 2013

Land of Adventure

Century of Mountaineering (VII): Shipton, the iconoclast who stole the glory

It is one of the times that prelude, sin only porteadores, very light material and greenfield. Perhaps because of this, or also for being an iconoclast with a fine sense of humor and hurtful- is so late would be replaced by Colonel John Hunt as head of the British expedition in 1953 achieved up to Everest.

bySebastián Álvaro

21 March, 2013

May Silver: market where they eat dogs and horses

And the feast continues; braised, fried or grilled, dog meat and horse listed as delicatessens. Issoufou forgeron an elder tells me that if you are lucky enough to eat the leg of a black dog, acquire the power to be invisible to your enemies at night. Gives me an amulet to continue their journey safely.

byJavier Brandoli

20 March, 2013

The delirious history of Italian tenor and opera in Africa

Le flanking three types, three suazilandeses, three major opera promoters had no room to sleep, had no major concert program, pianist had not, and musicians, or at least 24 appointment times had sold a single entry. They looked at him and he them as if all this were to fall from the sky in this luxurious hotel hall.

byJavier Brandoli

19 March, 2013

Etosha by the back door

The freedom of a car surrounded by animals is exciting and this one turns instinctively reckless. Crossing the Etosha National Park is comparable to travel from one end to Galicia, but instead of manors or granaries, one can find gazelles and elephants.

byDaniel Landa

18 March, 2013

Things to do in Las Vegas before running

Las Vegas is superlative, extravagant, ostentatious, sublimely tacky at times, extroverted, worldly, uninhibited, noctívaga and provocative. Who would ever get up in the desert of Nevada a city conceived by and for the game?

byRicardo Coarasa

15 March, 2013

Asia

Iran: sounds of a beech

In a place where we share space with the wolf, wild boar, Maral, bear and leopard is advisable to find out what animal you have about and what is your position on the wind. It's like being in a constant game of masks. It is a dangerous job but exciting at all.

byContributors

14 March, 2013

Guanajuato: City of Life and Death

And then we discovered that in this city, color is painted out, has a sinister side. No its mines are now closed, nor its strange tunnels, in, is nothing: are their dead, because here even the dead refuse to stop living.

byDaniel Landa

11 March, 2013

Chapel Narbonne: the oldest house in Uruguay

One thing caught my attention: English naturalist claimed to have slept in a large house that was about a hundred years old when he passed by the place. Rare, because for the early eighteenth century had hardly Uruguay population and ranches of the time were of adobe.

byGerardo Bartolomé

9 March, 2013

Land of Adventure

Century of Mountaineering (WE): "Get up or die"

"Por aquel entonces era casi normal que los domingos alguien se cayera. Monday was the rescue and Thursday, burial. Y después solíamos quedar para el fin de semana siguiente para hacer alguna ruta", recordaba Anderl Heckmair, the winner of the Eiger North.

bySebastián Álvaro

8 March, 2013

Midnight in the Western Wall

Few places in the world weighs as much as the story here. I am an outsider peering into an old engraving Bible. And that the restored walls have a certain air museum, a thousand times restored citadel, a stone washed carefully.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 March, 2013

Seeking Almayer

Preface to a journey begun

Almayer's, ultimately, the act of traveling. Goal and path simultaneously. Middle and end. Search and find. And pray that as my favorite book, "Everything else was not yet. Invent-that would be wonderful ". Inventing.

byOlga Moya

6 March, 2013

Today has not killed anyone in South Africa

My work as a correspondent condemns these countries to have killed and scams. I can not, not published, send a notice to be called "a week ago in South Africa do not violate anyone". Nor imagine three columns or cover of the news website explains that "Mozambique's Ministry of Labour is not corrupt", accompanied by a detailed report which reveals that deviated dollar budget for "youth training".

byJavier Brandoli

5 March, 2013

Pacaya volcano Ascension

The show was awesome. From a crack flowed thick and incandescent lava and formed a scorched earth mantle. Occasionally some huge boulders rolling down the hill and all hell break flowed inside.

byDaniel Landa

4 March, 2013

Century of Mountaineering (In): Mallory, the great enigma

Day 8 June, magnificent weather, left the last camp, located 8.168 meters, to the summit. The two were last seen at about one o'clock above the second step "forward resolutely" to the top. Since then, the mystery enveloped the two climbers.

bySebastián Álvaro

1 March, 2013

Crossroads of caravans

Nothing is more evocative in the vast desert that the image of the legendary undaunted caravans. Our idea of ??sailing hundreds of miles from Ghat Sahara to go to the city of Ghadames, aims to follow in the footsteps of the intrepid caravans for centuries roamed the sands of the ocean of sand.

byVincent Marian Plédel and Ocaña

28 February, 2013

In the footsteps of Hemingway in Havana

Hemingway lived at the Hotel Ambos Mundos, where, say, began writing For Whom the Bell Tolls. The hotel, Twilight of charm, is located on the main street of the historic center of Havana. Its ground floor is a large living room with high ceilings where today a pianist starts to keys Yellow Submarine.

byDiego Cobo

27 February, 2013

Canada: the conductor for the drunken nights

The circumnavigation of the globe on two wheels has been done many times and many more will. As experience is of the most intense I know, but as literary enterprise is seen as something, maybe even too. Currently we run the risk of tiring trivialized and reaches saturation to force travelers embark on the road with the sole purpose of having their experiences in social networks to become famous or have followers.

byMiquel Silvestre

26 February, 2013

A sailing between the islands of San Blas

"Finally you have arrived", said, before taking a sip of his beer, "We were expecting". Everyone turned to look at us there. For days that a group of travelers waiting for us to complete the passage that would lead us to Cartagena de Indias on a sailboat.

byDaniel Landa

25 February, 2013

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