Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Los Angeles in red, yellow, green and blue

As every street in every neighborhood look-city of this metropolis anonymous, we recognized the street from the house by the red tree, that made lantern halfway up and just gave us shade in the interminable pauses where we went to the door to the car we distinguish tinkling dominos pizza or were removed some the urge to smoke.

byLaura Berdejo

19 Oct., 2012

In a strange land

Ten bridges you cross before dying

From San Francisco to New York. Istanbul to Estonia. From Nepal to Prague. De Jaca to the jungles of Uganda. Ten bridges crossed essential. What are yours?

byRicardo Coarasa

18 Oct., 2012

Europe

The fear of death at sea

He realized that the 90% of the castaways who managed to reach safety at being able to get on a lifeboat, died about three days ..., when a man actually takes at least ten to die of thirst and thirty to fifty, hunger.

byContributors

17 Oct., 2012

Zinave National Park: oblivion

The road to Mabote is red. Clay skating on our 4x4 blind curves of a road that goes into oblivion. Each meter seems the world, my world, spectra rubs and shadows. Nothing.

byJavier Brandoli

16 Oct., 2012

In a strange land

The mirror of sedentary traveler

Few things are most exciting that the expectation of a trip. The check, especially, when life takes you away from suitcases and airports, of adrenaline that infects a plane ticket

byRicardo Coarasa

12 Oct., 2012

Canaima at ground

Down there, in the dense forests, rivers make watermarks on the rock. Down there, between tropical trees, Jade's roads, pools as glass, burgundy waters, snakes emeralds. Down there I heard a song of exotic birds and the sound of waterfalls.

byDaniel Landa

11 Oct., 2012

Europe

The routine and the sea

Very shortly begin to dawn. The process takes between twenty and twenty five minutes from start to dawn. Light up a first intense fuchsia highest clouds: cirrus, then means: clusters. Appearing, the solar disc on the horizon you can look directly because the intensity of its light is dimmed by haze.

byJavier Brandoli

10 Oct., 2012

Libya… deep heart

The images of the pristine and refreshing Mediterranean waters would disperse as if they were an elusive mirage. Temples, amphitheatres, columns of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire are diluted by our rearview mirror and become a memorable keepsake.

byVincent Marian Plédel and Ocaña

9 Oct., 2012

Salvador: search the Street impatient Sloth

Something out of the way and almost desperate helplessness I found the drawing view of Darwin. There the slaves earned about offering real bear who could afford, sloths

byGerardo Bartolomé

6 Oct., 2012

"Guide" to eating on the streets of Hanoi

Eating on the street is much more than just "eat". It is an experience for all senses. No it is calle solo restaurant, but to break hierarchies, putting all level, sitting side by side next to people who do not know. It is a world to see and be seen.

byAlex Zurdo

5 Oct., 2012

From Ethiopia to Uganda: trip to the Nile Sources (II)

The descent to the shore is flanked by stands selling souvenirs to tourists. Down country music sounds. From the bars hang banners Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester, of Milan ... The global village has arrived, also, the mythical Nile Sources.

byRicardo Coarasa

4 Oct., 2012

Tourist in Venice or not?

How often we, pro travelers, after crossing miles of desert, starve, cold, suffer illness or "bugs", We ended up being nothing more than "Tourist" for the first location we have found. Not very flattering but quite realistic.

byJuan Ramon Morales

3 Oct., 2012

The day you stop seeing the sea…

Everything is sea, as when under the beach and helped the fishermen to pull nets laying morning (something I do not do much for me as I approach stop pulling the net while they encourage me to continue). Groups of women and children for an hour dragging eternal network, weighing as the ocean and brings small fish are eaten by dozens of people who live near them without.

byJavier Brandoli

2 Oct., 2012

Tortuguero is Pura Vida

When we enter the Tortuguero river instantly felt thousands of eyes watching. It was the look of the jungle, silent, hidden, wild. Costa Rica is sold at the world with an eloquent slogan: "Pura Vida" and the waters of this river, these words come every sense.

byDaniel Landa

1 Oct., 2012

Libya… The Way We Were

Suddenly ... a big bang. Libya, we had seduced from the first time that the wheels of our 4x4 bitten the sand and our boots trod ghost towns of the past ... closes a violent. It begins a bloody civil war against the dictator Gaddafi.

byVincent Marian Plédel and Ocaña

29 September, 2012

Oman, Osama chatting in the keystone

An arid landscape, itself in the Arabian Peninsula, swallows any hint of plant or animal life, and Gulf waters that bathe these shores, within walking distance changing hands to become the Gulf of Oman.

byNacho Melero

28 September, 2012

From Ethiopia to Uganda: trip to the Nile Sources (In)

Few places throughout history have so strongly attracted the imagination of geographers, emperors and explorers like Nile Sources. The secret of the birth of the great African river head brought mankind for 2.000 years.

byRicardo Coarasa

27 September, 2012

The crest of the wave or…of death

They were some of the most painful moments of my life; I seemed to be throwing a pulse to a Nature unceremoniously willing to stop at nothing and capable of wiping out everything in its path found. Then came a relative calm and the boat control became more bearable.

byJavier Brandoli

26 September, 2012

The African Macondo: agitators hippo queue

“Ahhhh. And how they get no rain?”, asked with some curiosity before hearing a response that if I had been given a hundred thousand opportunities to give it even had approached me. "Waving queues hippos with their hands, skyward, and prevent rain ", I emphatically explained.

byJavier Brandoli

25 September, 2012

What did you think Boston? …beautiful and very European

Strolling through the streets thought a piece of Europe also crossed the Atlantic entrepreneurs accompanying illusions of those families of the early English emigrants s.XVII. Pilgrims who came to seek better fortune in a land full of opportunities that christened the New England.

byNacho Melero

22 September, 2012

The Teide walk: my sunrise on the roof of Spain (II)

The first thing you see when you reach the top is a little mouse snaking through the rocks. Few titanic tasks I can imagine that this rodent food every day buscándose 3.717,98 meters.

byRicardo Coarasa

20 September, 2012

Europe

Attack of the pirates in the Atlantic

- Fuck, Pancho! —chillé—. It's a pirate ship, navigation light has betrayed our position and come after us! Why ...? Before closing the question and I could not imagine, My heart raced. Shouting insisted my partner: - Pancho! Pancho! Pick up the phone and call the Organization! We have at our stern a pirate ship!

byJavier Brandoli

19 September, 2012

The African Macondo: the sand-eating

"In the market for selling on sand 25 MZN (70 cents). They also soap and soup ". "And do you prefer the chicken or fish soup?”, asked wryly. "That's very expensive, I have no money "

byJavier Brandoli

18 September, 2012

The pissed off a crocodile attack

Happened on Bocas Dzilam, north of the Yucatan Peninsula, in a place that is neither coast, or forest, or mangrove, but has a bit of everything, as if the chaos outside its natural state.

byDaniel Landa

17 September, 2012

"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