Chronicles

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Black Garmo: the 3.000 Express

The attraction of the mountain is sometimes so strong that neither know nor want to avoid. I had uploaded other times Garmo Black, but never alone. Not that I want to live that experience, simply could not find anyone to accompany me.

byRicardo Coarasa

4 March, 2012

Dodging rocks

The challenge of exploring the world in the XXI century

Many think that the climbers are crazy about climbing mountains to engage in risk of their lives but I understand them beyond what words can explain. There is something up there. Reach the summit should look something like what I feel when I reach a distant destination ...

byJavier Brandoli

2 March, 2012

Namanga: how to stay without a passport at the border

Not even suspected when a woman boarded the bus demanding our passports plump. I, truth, that immigration was an employee that we would expedite the process. We asked 25 per head and no flinch.

byRicardo Coarasa

1 March, 2012

Apolima or chronic Samoan domestic eternity

There was once a life of its own island in the middle of the southern Polynesian. Once upon a time Apolima, Samoan island of the archipelago a horseshoe shape where I could not always get, and where no one could always go ...

byLaura Berdejo

29 February, 2012

Delhi (II): an awakening to blows

I woke up with an Indian Bollywood actor seemed a, with his mustache, gently holding my hand and gave me some blows with the other. One dreamed many awakenings in India, but I never imagined one so surreal.

byJavier Brandoli

28 February, 2012

Gualichu: in search of the sacred tree of the offerings

The Indians called "Gualichu" to all places where bad things had happened. Darwin had written 180 years ago in that area was a tree sacred to the Indians and their branches hung offerings.

byGerardo Bartolomé

25 February, 2012

America

Wild Yellowstone

To experience the magic of this place is necessary to visit the park during the sunrises and / or evenings, since in the middle of the day there are too many tourists and few animals can be observed, except for the bison that appear to be eternally guarding Yellowstone.

byContributors

24 February, 2012

Teotihuacán: the city of the feathered serpent

I happen to these ancient cities that tourists go around imagining walking XXXV century on the remains of our modern cities, we thought indestructible, walking the deserted streets that barely visible remains of a skyscraper or a cathedral bell.

byRicardo Coarasa

23 February, 2012

Delhi (In): backpackers, the smell and cleavage

Paharganj is backpacker area and seekers of life. They say it's one of the most dangerous areas of the city, but nothing in this place looks like a risk not survive. We stayed at the Inn Cozzy, christened the resort, whose price per night is less than five euros.

byJavier Brandoli

21 February, 2012

Carnival in Rio: murder in the Sambadrome of Lewis Carroll

Not what it would feel when he met Alice Rabbit stressed that in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll imagined, but compared to the outskirts of the Sambadrome be sure that the rabbit meat from resort

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

19 February, 2012

Kirgizstan: the persecution of the wolf from the mountains

Move to step through the valley of Karkara, border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan today, a limit imposed by Stalin to the same people. The sky is leaden and the snow is announced in the cold wind hit us back. The horses are impatient and Ari, my guide, with them.

byJuan Ramon Morales

18 February, 2012

Unknown by Jaén (III): looking for Jorge Manrique

Segura de la Sierra is traversed with bated breath, walking its slopes between paved corners, chasing our shadows on the whitewashed walls of streets that twist

byRicardo Coarasa

16 February, 2012

A route through the charming towns of Segovia

Historical towns that retain a spectacular heritage and delicious cuisine. A simple route, easy to do to spend a day or a weekend, in a rural Spain to discover which preserves its past. Enjoy a path of the senses.

byJavier Brandoli

14 February, 2012

Ghosts of the Colony

How many times had passed through Cologne? No less than fifteen. It is almost mandatory step for all Argentines, in summer, look for the white beaches of Uruguay. By ferry crosses the sea of ??fresh water called Rio de la Plata and this prevents a return of 400 km.

byGerardo Bartolomé

12 February, 2012

The impossible escape from India and dirt roads

These claims or try to climb it for a photo without permission is like I got ahead of an aunt that I liked the street and tell. -Eh, Solid, show me tits

byMiquel Silvestre

11 February, 2012

In a strange land

The worst traveling companions

Travel is in our fears excarvar, dive into our insecurities. From these depths to show the very worst of times each, especially when, thousands of miles from home, seek the same amenities and behave with identical patterns. This is a review of a handful of monumental fights can spoil the best travel.

byRicardo Coarasa

9 February, 2012

Lima: Looking for this child

What is surprising is that John, the child face something sad look aged and, is also working. In fact, John would be nearly impossible without making the thousand bricks a day that will give the family with six euros to eat. Eight years after that child look

byJavier Brandoli

7 February, 2012

Burkina Faso: Dafra sacred catfish

The scene is indescribable. All around the rocks and hanging bloodstained fur hundreds of goats, cows and a horse, be scattered walking endless chicken feathers like a foam party they were, the smell of death pervades every corner of the lake.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

5 February, 2012

Europe

Finisterre has Jerusalén: memory is the way

If the weather and the authority did not prevent, next 4 March initiate in a pilgrimage Finisterre lighthouse-adventure 7.000 kilometers that will take me to the holy city of Jerusalem through 15 countries in order to go small telling human stories related to Alzheimer's, German thief that bloody memories

byContributors

4 February, 2012

Alcatraz: the perfect getaway

While cruising through the cold waters of the bay of San Francisco, "The Rock" just peeking through the mist, as ashamed of his past shackles and solitary confinement.

byRicardo Coarasa

2 February, 2012

Wild flowers on the grave of Selous

I have twice visited the tomb of Selous, in the wooded banks of Beho Beho, an area frequently visited by lions. I like the ritual of visiting the places where the remains of my heroes reference.

byJavier Reverte

1 February, 2012

The lost city of Quilmes

When we reached the top of the ruins we saw the full beauty of the place. Before us, a plain dominated by cacti. Could almost imagine the Spanish riders approached the Indian city.

byGerardo Bartolomé

29 January, 2012

Debre Damo: the monastery of the rope and the snake

The monk throws the rope from the top. I look up. More 15 meter vertical wall separating me from the religious. It's the only way to climb to the monastery. I'm in your hands.

byRicardo Coarasa

26 January, 2012

Walter Bonatti, mountaineering legend

A few months ago, in September, fallecía a Roma, with 81 years, Walter Bonatti, the greatest climber of his generation and most ethical reference in the world of mountain. Of it has been said that was "pure climber who ever lived"

bySebastián Álvaro

25 January, 2012

"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	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