Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

1336 articles

Patagonia: the mystery of the caves of the hands

What catches the attention of the walls of the huge overhang are hands. Hundreds of hands painted on the walls seem to want to draw the attention of visitors. As voices of a distant past world that we want to remember that they were there.

byGerardo Bartolomé

15 September, 2012

Asia

Kyoto: route through the geisha quarter

Through the window on the first floor of a sumptuous restaurant glimpsed a back. His neck marked by outdoor-ashi sanbon, that bit of skin without makeup, exuded sensuality and languor. Yes, was finally a real geisha.

byContributors

14 September, 2012

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

Leaving the beach hotel over 30 degrees with a backpack and hiking clothes I feel like in a swimsuit by Navacerrada pasease midwinter.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 September, 2012

Sri Lanka: eating tea on the train

I've eaten nuts, two coffees, nibbled a bit of pineapple and spicy tuna swallowed a dumpling and potato. I'm fat and happy. We continue to gain height, and forest clearing will, giving way to the tea fields. Waterfalls, women collecting leaves, white factories, tiny villages and Hindu temples.

byAlex Zurdo

12 September, 2012

The market for stolen Maputo

It's nine o'clock, I have not had coffee yet, and I just found out last night that I have stolen the rearview mirror and car headlights. It's nine in the morning and another guy threatens to fuck more plaque on your plate that formalizes robberies.

byJavier Brandoli

11 September, 2012

The most beautiful mountain lakes in the Pyrenees

From afar, tears of the mountains seem. Closer, their presence is enhanced peaks and surrounded by hills. The ibones, name that is used to refer to the Aragonese Pyrenees mountain lakes, exude peace and are featured in some of the most beautiful postcards of the Pyrenean.

byRicardo Coarasa

9 September, 2012

"My trip to North Cape"

North Cape is a legendary destination for any motorist. For me, I've come to Cape Town motorcycle, was almost a personal obligation to reach the northernmost point of Europe.

byMiquel Silvestre

8 September, 2012

Asia

Jordan and Jerusalem: decipher the riddle of the desert

A different route where the guide does not teach the places, explains. The importance of the fund in order to admire the way. An archaeologist serving as interpreter of all that is seen and encountered in this fantastic route.

byJavier Brandoli

7 September, 2012

Europe

Blurred Nights in Dublin

I arrived in Dublin at dawn. That was the last time I saw the silent city. I had breakfast with sausages and bacon and juices and weak coffee in the Bed & Breakfast I randomly picked online. The sun came out to challenge the tough topic and show the bridges across the river Liffey.

byDaniel Landa

6 September, 2012

Europe

The world's longest race (start)

Two men, many amulets and whole ocean paddling ahead Atalántico. An adventure based XXI century the great stories of adventurers of yesteryear. A feat starring two Spanish men for ten weeks will be published in this journal. !Frankly adimirable!

byContributors

5 September, 2012

Life on the road

A giraffe crossing the road between cars. One of the young accelerated more than their legs and body plummeted on the asphalt in front of another vehicle. For a moment it seemed dead. His mother, while, nervosa is shaking the bushes

byJavier Brandoli

4 September, 2012

Moconá Falls: in the shadow of Iguazú

[st] That the Portuguese were an expansive people is known by all of Spain and that Brazil inherited from the…

byGerardo Bartolomé

1 September, 2012

Asia

Varanasi: Ganghes odors

Varanasi is the holiest city of Hinduism, as old as the world. Born at the dawn of history and, as the water flowing through it Ganghes, always remains though never the same.

byContributors

29 August, 2012

Nenets herders, the last nomads of Siberia

As the helicopter that will take us back is about, in a sea of ??reindeer, pastors dismantle the chums and leave without saying goodbye. The word "goodbye" makes no sense for them, and "thank you". In this world nothing is hard and harsh calls, everything belongs to everyone and is dismissed because the security of the reunion is general for all.

byJuan Ramon Morales

28 August, 2012

Hailstorm in Indian

A medio camino, suddenly, the sky was dull, the wind hit with more force and began unloading a fierce hailstorm. Unexpected time, que hacía años que allí no sucedía, and the horizon became an intense palette. The sea is green and the sky turned dark gray

byJavier Brandoli

20 August, 2012

Pony: Contador waiting

He had an outstanding debt in VAP and now finally gives me the opportunity of paying. Within a week, the Tour of Spain, front with Alberto Contador, Jaca reaches. Now or never. Here are my recommendations for making the most of "the Pearl of the Pyrenees"

byRicardo Coarasa

16 August, 2012

Fort Dauphine: Paradise Lost castaway Drury

Write about Madagascar and Fort Dauphine let alone how to do it and not to mention about Trinidad Cuba. Its fascinating and unknown history puts this place on the map a few historians and lovers of tales of pirates, buccaneers and naúgrafos.

byMayte Touch

13 August, 2012

The ascent of Jebel Toubkal

The legendary Atlas runs from Tunisia due west to Agadir and separates the fertile lands of the largest northern and scorching desert there. Sahara are the prelude. These mountains are oblique border between green and yellow.

byNacho Melero

10 August, 2012

Europe

Northern Ireland: be be in the (Part II)

Catholics call it Derry, Londonderry Protestants. In any case, it is a city where I could not breathe. It is much smaller than Belfast and here are marked neighborhoods without subtleties. Signs direct messages show both sides.

byDaniel Landa

8 August, 2012

Europe

Northern Ireland: be be in the (Part I)

Belfast with British education I received, with an avenue clean and the Town Hall as the first stop. Dublin had left two hours earlier and now walking along the pedestrian streets of the center of the capital of Northern Ireland, or Northern Ireland, because in this region of the world the disagreement begins with the names.

byDaniel Landa

6 August, 2012

A City or City Rodrigo Vicente?

To all who arrived by that route we get the current heraldic symbol of the city, formed by three huge columns of a pagan temple destroyed. At that moment I knew I was in one of those places where the cache overflows from every pore of your skin.

byNacho Melero

4 August, 2012

Chimborazo Quilotoa: But the Earth is round?

French geographers discussed their knowledge of the world. What shape was the planet? Was it round the flat? Expeditions were organized. A cercana North Pole, in Scandinavian Lapland, and one to Ecuador, in the heart of the Spanish colonies.

byGerardo Bartolomé

2 August, 2012

The flight of «Daring»

In like Volare. I hate planes, aerodromes, airlines and their procedures. It is not fear but rebellion against irritants organized channels of mass consumption and mass transit. Airports are factories inconveniences and delays

byMiquel Silvestre

27 July, 2012

Saudade Road to Lisbon: the trail of Don Sebastian

The boy-king looks at us, sword, from the monumental façade of Rossio train station, in pleno center lisboeta. Few sovereigns have so strongly attracted to the yearnings of a people. Too much responsibility for a child whose interior intrepid Africa echoed the call.

byRicardo Coarasa

26 July, 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