Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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The end: a dream 5.250 kilometers rowing

Suddenly, port on the dock, fellow rower Peter Moore, had come just a day before we, struck a powerful white flare that lit the whole area. We got goosebumps; were dozens of people that cheered us, applauded, whistling ... We could not believe, we thought that there would come at night almost nobody to greet.

byContributors

21 November, 2012

The African Macondo: it paralyzes good order

Rafael, one of the guards of the hotel, Sergeant former wartime, rests next to the water tank on the hill there Hotel. He sits, looking ahead, when the head of an enormous boa appears between their legs. A snake that is already part of the landscape of the hill, always lost in the bushes nearby and there recurrently about drinking.

byJavier Brandoli

20 November, 2012

Rio de Janeiro: Paço's "paper madman"

Was using a very short trip to Rio de Janeiro to follow one of my favorite pastimes: compare an old drawing with the current reality. In my hands was a copy of the engraving artist Beagle, Augustus Earle, performed in 1833.

byGerardo Bartolomé

17 November, 2012

Europe

Cape Taenarum: at the gates of Hades

Silence and midday slumber, when the earth itself seems to be in a kind of lethargy and no living dare travel the roads, make the notion of time seems to be diluted in an immense and infinite blue contours.

byContributors

16 November, 2012

In defense of Mexico City

A, who loves Mexico with its strengths and weaknesses, is already a little tired of hearing anathemas on insecurity in Mexico City. One need only do a simple Google search with the words "DF insecurity". Nearly three million tickets.

byRicardo Coarasa

15 November, 2012

Europe

Hurricane Olga: from hell to heaven

I felt like a child left to die; low temperatures and incessant rain prevented escape from this hell frozen. I totally slaughtered encontraba, convinced that it was unbearable, sorry have embarked and scared that we did not leave alive.

byJavier Brandoli

14 November, 2012

A photo

Every day I have to put forward a picture in this magazine and I guess surprise many of my readers from as far. Every day I walk through a world of markets that smells of dried fish and a strange life which spreads before me.

byJavier Brandoli

13 November, 2012

An endless world

Where I do not expect anyone

I would do the same as Elizabeth Gilbert in Bali : buy a ticket to a destination where no one expected me, not knowing where I live, or what I do, neither know nor how much is the euro, nor how it of taxis at the airport ...

byMayte Touch

10 November, 2012

Benin: nonreturn door

The Door of No Return is one of those places that transmits more by suggesting that at showing, where the silences are loud and shake until the last recesses of the soul. You can almost hear cries million captives in the waves, pleas sent as messages in bottles lost in the ocean.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

9 November, 2012

The Libyan Desert Black

Sabha, the capital of Fezzan, is the starting point of all expeditions wishing to enter this remote region of the Sahara. The earliest history of this unknown territory came to light when the first European exploration began only two centuries ago.

byVincent Marian Plédel and Ocaña

8 November, 2012

Tallin: back to the enchanted city

Back to a place that has captivated has its risks. It's like putting a pulse to the memory. Almost always have to lose. How many great memories, idealized over time, have collapsed by a disappointing return visit?

byRicardo Coarasa

7 November, 2012

A balloon ride over the desert of Namibia

With the confusion of a night interrupted at four in the morning we went to nowhere. We had arranged with officials Ballon Sky Namib desert somewhere and there, with the mist of dawn announcing the day, saw the silhouettes of two huge balloons.

byDaniel Landa

5 November, 2012

The valley of death

"Rain in the desert? It can not be much ", thought. We travel. Maybe I should have worried when we passed a place where the water had been part of the way. We travel.

byGerardo Bartolomé

3 November, 2012

Africa

Rwanda: gorillas in the jungle looking for the Pygmies (II)

We walked on the mud, at some points, knee-us. Paul, the man who, machete and pressure, we careened through the lush jungle alerted us that we were close. After five minutes of silence, opened before us the green weed and we could see for the first time. A silverback.

byContributors

2 November, 2012

Africa

Rwanda: gorillas in the jungle looking for the Pygmies (In)

I know I'm not the first white boy crossing their homes into the mountains to see the gorillas, but I feel something similar

byContributors

1 November, 2012

86 ways to cook a buffalo

While the first bottle we racksi2 I ask why Rohit newaris bars are much dirtier than a shoe store or a grocery store. Not knowing what to say shrugs and takes a sip of rice wine.

byAlex Zurdo

31 Oct., 2012

Near death

In two days I've seen two people shiver of panic. I thought both could die, they also. Her body trembled to impress their apparent fragility ... Nature in Africa is hard, conditions to deal with it too.

byJavier Brandoli

30 Oct., 2012

Cambridge universities beyond their

Centuries have passed in Cambridge. It is no longer time wearing dark raincoats spies or medieval streets. But some of its mystery city full of state secrets and exceptional minds still floating in the air

byMayte Touch

27 Oct., 2012

The crossing of alcohol in the Baltic

I was surprised to see people with trucks getting on the boat that took us to Tallinn from Helsinki. I thought you had passed away since an anonymous benefactor of mankind invented the trolley. Soon I understood everything.

byRicardo Coarasa

26 Oct., 2012

Villa de las Estrellas: a dream in Antarctica

Villa de las Estrellas story sounded, a fantasía. His name was as unreal as the place in which it was installed and we were going there. We were about to get on a plane to travel to Antarctica.

byDaniel Landa

25 Oct., 2012

Europe

Storm of shooting stars on the ocean

Imagine my surprise when, suddenly, potent light reflected on the sea almost blinded me. He came from behind me and when I turned I saw still on the trail of the, might call, fleeting sun. What an awesome! Extraordinary!, exclaimed.

byJavier Brandoli

24 Oct., 2012

The story of Mr. Matsinhe delusional

"What year are?”. Those were the first words I heard Mr Matsinhe. I went to a meeting to meet the man who would take my residency papers in Mozambique and saw a middle-aged man, about 50 years, somewhat plump and very weak voice, all leading hotel labor issues. Then listen: "What year are?"And I thought"!hopefully not the guy who's going to fix my papers!”

byJavier Brandoli

23 Oct., 2012

Travel with us to the heart of the Mayan World

The End of the World? Maya Premonitions represent rather the beginning of a new era as the basis of the philosophy and thought Maya, cycles changes should not be interpreted as a termination, but as a principle.

byvap

22 Oct., 2012

Punta del Este: history hiding tourist beaches

Every year, when I go to Buenos Aires, I do it with a place in mind to visit in the next opportunity. Who knew that among many vacationers can find this story?

byGerardo Bartolomé

20 Oct., 2012

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