Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Patones: the mysterious people of Madrid and lost

He was born there a lost kingdom. A kingdom of herders and farmers. A kingdom of shadows. They say that centuries later it was the only place in the Iberian Peninsula which was not conquered by Napoleon's troops. It was not because they did not find.

byJavier Brandoli

26 June, 2012

Andilana: the best beach in the world is in Madagascar

Of course there is paradise on earth: se llama Andilana, north of the island of Nosy Be. This long run-on and serene beach of fine sand and soft, which is home to an emerald sea and placid, is really a treat for the senses.

byMayte Touch

24 June, 2012

Lake Tana: the disadvantages of not being Indiana Jones

While the boat looked ragged with which we have to sail on Lake Tana in search of the tomb of Pedro Paez, the Jesuit who discovered the sources of the Blue Nile and who paid with forgetting history, I start thinking that something will turn out well.

byRicardo Coarasa

21 June, 2012

Berlin: Crazy Nights, free sex and nudity

Another old abandoned factory, divine atmosphere and modern, in which the eccentricity mark the gateway. If you get the picture or the dress you wear is not suitable you have to forget to enter (classism liberal things that comes to luxury price tickets).

byJavier Brandoli

19 June, 2012

Crossing the Andes: the route of General San Martin

Had chosen this route because it was one of those chosen by the army of General San Martin when he crossed the Andes to seek freedom for Chile during the wars of independence

byGerardo Bartolomé

17 June, 2012

Welcome to Europe dear Aung San Suu Kyi !!!

I walked for two days through thick jungle that border between Burma and Thailand to reach a settlement karen, where there was no electricity or running water, but children and more children with that smile that is only seen when happiness is full.

byNacho Melero

16 June, 2012

Manila: What is 1861, 1981? (resolving the enigma)

Now I understand the reason for this unprecedented double date that does not make sense. On the fresh mud which made these tiles are always the numbers recorded 1861, the correct date of manufacture. But according to the cobblestone ...

byMiquel Silvestre

15 June, 2012

In a strange land

One day in Rome and 63 hours of bus

"¿Están numerados los billetes?". "No lo sé, es mi primer viaje". The answer would have more relevance unless, as in this case, who answered was the driver of the bus that was to take from Madrid to Rome.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 June, 2012

The false mythical lone traveler

Many returned days or months later with a veil in the stomach, disappointed to discover that they are not what they thought. Not bad, not think that's failing in the mirror; because without going to return had always lived while they were still going off. One must be very brave to dare to lose.

byJavier Brandoli

12 June, 2012

The secret of Antsirabe, the city of salt

It is difficult to pinpoint why I like both are anonymous people at the center of Madagascar. I discovered by chance, they traverse the country road from Antananarivo to the southern coasts of Tulear crystal there is only one road and it goes, forcibly, por Antsirabe.

byMayte Touch

9 June, 2012

Manila: What is 1861, 1981? (Part II)

The poverty of these people are just fixing up the minor details of my computer, as my sunglasses. For me there are no, his invisible. Not like my Swiss watch which I have removed and replaced by plastic that was in this forecast

byMiquel Silvestre

8 June, 2012

Joy: the island of the nymph Calypso

Who can resist the call of Ulysses? On his return home injured, spent seven long years on the island of Oggigia, retained by the goddess Calypso. He had approached the island of Gozo, the cave of Calypso, the Maltese identify with the place of captivity of Ulysses.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 June, 2012

Illegal, arrested and deported to Malawi

We stopped to get cash at an ATM and get a police car which was down two officers, one armed with a rifle. They begin to look at our car and we understood we had a problem. A smiling educadísimo official, which there is armed, We are asked to accompany them to Police Station

byJavier Brandoli

6 June, 2012

Cuzco: closer to heaven

The churches point to the sky, Indians pray to Mother Earth and tourists invading the terraces. Cuzco entangled their creeds with the same ease that mixes stones piled on centuries.

byDaniel Landa

4 June, 2012

Navigating the Napo River: Amazon at risk

The Amazon conjures images of danger and adventure in the mind of any traveler, a difficult challenge to avoid. One imagines a dense jungle to beyond the horizon, strange animals, dangerous insects, unknown fever and aboriginal tribes fleeing from civilization.

byGerardo Bartolomé

2 June, 2012

Manila: What is 1861, 1981? (Part I)

If you are paving for two centuries, Why is another date of the twentieth century? What does this strange saint 1981 so close in time? A premonition, an appointment with the future? I do not understand. Strange!

byMiquel Silvestre

1 June, 2012

Ngorongoro: the melancholy of fleeting pleasures (II)

You spend years waiting to get somewhere and, when you finally get it, and starts to hurt you have to leave. Just put one foot in the Ngorongoro, I had several hours ahead and safari, however, already felt the melancholy of the distance, again, would come between us.

byRicardo Coarasa

31 May, 2012

Budapest: to meet Sandor Marai

Traveling is a pleasure for the senses, but travel on the trail of a book or author that wrote it far exceeds the pleasure.

byMayte Touch

30 May, 2012

Mozambique Island, the island lost in time

A small island three miles long by 400 meters wide. A small piece of land lost in the Indian Ocean that, however, is a World Heritage Site since 1991.

byJavier Brandoli

29 May, 2012

Sarajevo: a trip to the memory

Today, Bosnia-Herzegovina, tries to shake off the dust from the ashes of history. Walking the streets of Sarajevo to recall, inevitably, more immediate memories in time.

byContributors

26 May, 2012

One night on a freighter in the Java Sea

The scene is terrible and pathetic. Whole families in tatters, men in shirt-drawn cover staring the discomfort and boredom. Fatigue-based curing patience of centuries. The infinite patience of the poor of this world.

byMiquel Silvestre

25 May, 2012

Ngorongoro, the crater of life (In)

The infamous track is increasingly wriggling rears by the greenery of the rainforest. Te where you take hold take hold, the body jumps as if they were centrifuged. The humidity is chewed and sweat is your traveling companion for a while. The jiggling of the road is, however, one of the most joyous I remember discomfort.

byRicardo Coarasa

24 May, 2012

VaP. forward the exclusive new book by Javier Reverte

"Colinas que arden, Fire lakes" goes on sale tomorrow. VaP. now offers its readers a preview of Africa back to the master of travel writing.

byJavier Reverte

23 May, 2012

A train journey through Africa

In the freight cars go up the goods, in the passenger see people hanging near windows and runs to secure the sale. It is pure Africa. You see kids wearing from live chickens coming through the windows after brisk business.

byJavier Brandoli

22 May, 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