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Betancuria: dreaming of Fuerteventura

How can you express so much with so little! Stuck in a hole where scorching desert winds fail to bend it, there remains Betancuria. One of the first populations of Canary, and former capital of Fuerteventura long.

byContributors

22 February, 2013

On the shores of Lake Victoria: Search caddy golfer mzungu

It's one of those places haloed by myths that always want to get. He had been close, few years ago, in the western reaches of the Serengeti. Only 80 miles separated the luxury shops of Kirawira, where we spent the night, waters of the famous lake of Africa.

byRicardo Coarasa

21 February, 2013

Land of Adventure

Century of Mountaineering (IV): Shackleton's dream

While millions of people lost their lives in the trenches of the battlefields of Europe, Shackleton and his men were to carry out one of the most unusual and extraordinary expeditions of all time.

bySebastián Álvaro

20 February, 2013

Zambia: the crazed attempt to conquer Mars

They were euphoric times of Independence, 1964, where all dreamed Africa, with a freedom that would take up the same space. Article, signed by scientist Edward Makuka Nkoloso, specifies the details of an operation that would lead to the red planet to a spaceman, two cats and a missionary in a maximum period of seven years. All that crazy story has now captured in a book and a photo exhibition, internationally awarded and that is going around the world, Spanish photojournalist Cristina de Middel

byJavier Brandoli

19 February, 2013

A walk through the Valley of the Moon

They say that during the full moon rocks and sand dunes take on an unreal. We would cross the valley to full sunlight, but the magic of the place was going to win anyway.

byDaniel Landa

18 February, 2013

In the footsteps of Darwin in the Pampa and Patagonia

On this trip we will travel part of the father of the theory of evolution by the Rio de la Plata, Pampas and Patagonia and relive many of their experiences

byvap

16 February, 2013

Looking to Freddie in Zanzibar

When he finally landed on the island, a bright September morning 2004, was very clear where he wanted to go, a Stone Town, but did not know where exactly was the birthplace of the late leader of Queen.

byRicardo Coarasa

15 February, 2013

Land of Adventure

Century of Mountaineering (III): Mummery, the revolutionary myopic

Considered the father of modern mountaineering, This Englishman was the best climber of his time despite his limitations, it was something ungainly and rather myopic. He disappeared on Nanga Parbat in 1895, but his legacy endures.

bySebastián Álvaro

14 February, 2013

India in six images

Dirt, trash, rot swirling corners, on sidewalks, along streets, before stores, with food stalls, in the sacred Ganges River. Because that is India, a place to live magnificent treasures, extraordinary landscapes, hospitable, friendly and smiling, with grinding poverty and inequality more lacerating.

byContributors

13 February, 2013

Ecuador: motherhood than half the world

From there we left with the feeling that the beautiful Valley of Flowers has something more than that of Eden cemetery. We headed to another attractive project name: motherhood than half the world, in Cayambe. He then wrote in the report that was published in the press: "The name should be there because life split in two '. But, it is because there goes the line of Ecuador.

byJavier Brandoli

12 February, 2013

The forests of the legendary quetzal

The scenery was out of place. The mountains seemed painted a dark green and ghostly mist swayed between alpine looking houses. We rescued the suitcase with clothes that fit an autumn nonexistent in the rest of the Caribbean countries.

byDaniel Landa

11 February, 2013

Lake Yamdrok: Buddhist monastery that saved the woman-pig

En route to Everest, the fascinating Lake Turquoise looked three centuries ago, by the highest mountain range on earth, the most famous female reincarnation of Tibet. It is a landscape that is impregnated overwhelming mysticism that surrounds the corners that the mountains have taken to silence.

byRicardo Coarasa

8 February, 2013

Welcome to Cuba

In this blog today inaugurated from Havana will try to bring adventures, corners, music, curiosities, beaches, books ... All this fits in this space designed to share experiences, walks and impressions.

byDiego Cobo

7 February, 2013

Land of Adventure

Century of Mountaineering (II): the conquest of the Matterhorn

In the mid-nineteenth century almost all the highest peaks of the Alps had been promoted with one exception: Cervino, a mountain that becomes the symbol of inaccessibility.

bySebastián Álvaro

6 February, 2013

The article was not censorship

[st] I work with several media besides World Africa, some very sporadically.…

byJavier Brandoli

5 February, 2013

A boat from the fjords of Alaska

We decided to take a trip to the spring. We wanted to leave behind the ice, night advanced to the desktop, the slap of the morning wind, sea ??of ??fir: Alaska. After six months of cold, we escaped south, as winter castaways looking for a shore with palm trees.

byDaniel Landa

4 February, 2013

The magic of the Nile

There are days and nights that seem too early days anochecen. Should not sleep nights and days not deserve awakening. That night burned the sheets. Who wants to sleep when waiting a sunrise on the Nile?

byRicardo Coarasa

1 February, 2013

Land of Adventure

Century of Mountaineering (In): sense of the mountain

Taking advantage of this year marks the centenary of the Royal Society Sports Peñalara, I was asked to try to summarize the highlights of those hundred years elapsed until today mountaineering.

bySebastián Álvaro

31 January, 2013

Kgalagadi: death of a language

But the time has gone annihilating one by one until only be only a couple of people who hold in their throat an ancestral form of communication. La fallecida Aenki, in fact, worked with Unesco on a program to not bury them that language. Young people are no longer interested in talking or learning an old language and opt for the Nama. The whole story seems a sad poetry to rush to find.

byJavier Brandoli

29 January, 2013

Any street Africa

They were two minutes, nothing special, routine sequence and in that corner of the world passed the reality of make-up before our eyes. There is something hypnotic sway of people, the bustle with which Africa desnorta, aimlessly, without further horizons than a president less corrupt than the previous, a rainy season more lenient

byDaniel Landa

28 January, 2013

Cacaxtla: murals at war

The ancient Olmec city, especially, historical legacy 200 square meters of murals left evidence of the disappearance of the city after a bloody battle with the Teotihuacan, their bitter enemies.

byRicardo Coarasa

24 January, 2013

Hushe Project: Leopard territory

For three years, on business-NGO Foundation Sarabastall of Caspe, we are trying to improve the lives of the people of this remote village of Karakorum, Pakistan, for the simple reason of giving something of how much we owe.

bySebastián Álvaro

23 January, 2013

Cameroon: Waza giraffes

And here we are, I've spent a paste, which had accumulated the previous weeks, with tiny portions of grilled chicken and sleeping on buses for not catching hotels. I hit game of roulette, all red, expected Waza Park.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

22 January, 2013

Maputo: little account of the flood

Then leave the streets and houses are flooded. You see people getting into cubes sky home, floating furniture, tin roofs that break. The city is paralyzed, especially in cardboard Maputo, where the nearby sea seems less violent than those neighborhoods lost quagmire. Everything about this affliction in which African coups become customary.

byJavier Brandoli

21 January, 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