Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Spain

Pilgrim by Alzheimer's (In): Finisterre de Gijon

The symbolism of making the opposite way from Santiago to Jerusalem taking shape even if it is to relate disease regression, of turning back, return to the origin, at the same birth, sufferers suffering.

byContributors

14 April, 2012

Thailand: loneliness and pages of rubber

I like to travel by travel, I like traveling to some. Travel to Tell. That makes my trip a special. It's what builds my excitement and allowing me to spend the days alone but not lonely one.

byMiquel Silvestre

13 April, 2012

Lalibela: Black Jerusalem king bee

This marvelous city where look up is to look down, where the land seems to have engulfed the work of man in an angry outburst, steeped in history and myths in equal. Ethiopia, nation among nations, dreamed of one day with an African Jerusalem Christians to save the long pilgrimage to the holy city of David and Solomon. Is the response Lalibela.

byRicardo Coarasa

12 April, 2012

Through the Sinai by camel

To summarize nearly four days of mapping query, misunderstandings, anger, purchase of water tanks that never gets to see and many dollars spent on flour and fodder for camels, delivery of biblical wells Khudra Ain, the "green water", good name for the well, really ..... to the monastery of St. Catherine and Mount Sinai, with a friendly Bedu who never stops laughing and does not speak any English

byJuan Ramon Morales

11 April, 2012

Chong Oene: camping on a deserted beach

Suddenly some fishermen contemplate leaving the vegetation or the distance two women who collect shells and realize that nothing is empty at this location.

byJavier Brandoli

10 April, 2012

Humahuaca: goodbye to the dusty villages of the highlands

He missed and forgotten that people remembered overpost have visited so long ago. But everything had changed so much or was my memory that I was playing a trick?

byGerardo Bartolomé

7 April, 2012

Father Lachaise: I Vecino Jim Morrison

If there is a destination that deserves a place of honor in the obituary tourism and pilgrimage to Mecca groupies of shrouds, that is none other than the cemetery of Pere Lachaise and the jewel in its crown, The tumba of James William Morrison.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

6 April, 2012

Palm: beats of La Ciutat at dawn

This is usually the visitor who chooses the city, how, the where, the when. On rare occasions, however, the city is what you said, which opens your heart unexpectedly, when not even have time to savor its secrets.

byRicardo Coarasa

5 April, 2012

Amore and Misteria in Maputo

Maybe not the best time to teach that in the back were two other people, more when we found out later that at that time was one of the officers gun unholstering (amidst all the tension, was much, the situation was even comical)

byJavier Brandoli

3 April, 2012

One night in Bangkok neighborhood whores

One night I decide to go to Pat Pong, the street hookers and strip clubs. There is much much Japanese restaurant and Japanese client and much Japanese money. The girls dutifully waiting at the door of the gambling dens. When they see a group of Japanese appear, jump as springs

byMiquel Silvestre

31 March, 2012

Masai: the myth vanished tourism

I traveled to Africa for the first time in 2004 forced to ration their backs myths. Among them was not the least the fascination with the Masai, the warlike tribe that had kept at bay the white man until the late nineteenth century.

byRicardo Coarasa

29 March, 2012

Christchurch, youth and merino wool to travel to the South Pole

Christchurch, the second largest city in New Zealand after Auckland, is also known for being one of the steps required of almost every traveler who is directed to Antarctica, the fourth largest continent in the World.

byLaura Berdejo

28 March, 2012

South Africa: Leopard welcome

The Johannesburg airport sornisas, the calm of Graskop, the unexpected and brutal beauty of the Blyde River Canyon and the luck to see the big five in one day in Kruger. VaP. route begins ppor South Africa.

byJavier Brandoli

27 March, 2012

Galapagos: Darwin's Enchanted Islands

The traveler and scientist expect to find in these islands the solution to the "mystery of mysteries", as he called the Origin of Species. But after just over five weeks, left with more questions than answers.

byGerardo Bartolomé

25 March, 2012

Amundsen-Scott: duel in Antarctica

Two groups of men from different countries, cultures and preparation, led by two leaders with very different conceptions of leadership and exploration, took part in an epic duel that developed in the coldest region, desolate and barren of the known world: Antarctica

byContributors

23 March, 2012

The best travel books and politics of South Africa

Now, flight to Johannesburg tomorrow again, here are the books I recommend to understand something this continent. There will be other, Insurance, of high quality and I'll read in the coming years, so I understand this list as personal and situational.

byJavier Brandoli

20 March, 2012

Bangkok: dreams in the cot

She is drunk as a Cuba. He says he wants to be my friend. He apologizes because he only speaks Thai, but understand that his actions will tell me she likes me a lot, much. It hits the heart with his fist. Effectively, feelings for me. I also feel something. High Heat

byMiquel Silvestre

16 March, 2012

Cholula: where volcanoes spew churches

Jorge Luis leads the "muertera" leaning against the shoulder, with the same circumspection with which recalls that in his wild youth was nine times in prison. We went to the church of Los Remedios, built on the ancient Great Pyramid of Cholula, the city with more churches per square meter in all of Mexico.

byRicardo Coarasa

15 March, 2012

Smell of feet on the slopes of K-2

And there, one of the highlights of my traveling life more intense, rises between the red and black clouds the great pyramid of K2. A childhood dream fulfilled in a picture from a story about Kipling

byJuan Ramon Morales

14 March, 2012

Cabo de Gata: snow, the pastor and the lighthouse keeper

The history of old men who saw snow, a lighthouse keeper at the mist leaves no sleep, a pastor who has never left the park or farmers who depend on a dry swamp. The guts of my favorite place in Spain.

byJavier Brandoli

13 March, 2012

Running Route in South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi

Day 21 March begins the journey to prepare a route that in August we will discover the fascinating and unknown Mozambique. Also cross the South African Kruger and Lake Malawi. In April we will program and cost. !The adventure begins!

byJavier Brandoli

11 March, 2012

San Miguel Mission: the ghosts of "The Mission"

The film opens with a stunning shot of a missionary floating in a river on a cross until the water is dragged by an incredible waterfall. The reader may have guessed I'm talking about "The Mission".

byGerardo Bartolomé

9 March, 2012

Escalona: reunion with the Lazarillo de Tormes

If there is a long outstanding debt is to visit the scenes of the books that marked my childhood. So I was in the main square of Escalona, Lazarillo de Tormes where the land put through with the blind after he served a cruel trick.

byRicardo Coarasa

8 March, 2012

Coimbra: the walls of letters

The University is like if you observe any, with the city at the foot, to warn residents that are here one after the run. Then, among its narrow streets and steep, the city speaks in its walls filled with messages of rebellion, the default of thinking before he decided to be.

byJavier Brandoli

6 March, 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