Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Florence: lost in the night

That's when you find the sound of your steps solitary narrow cobbled streets. As is, There are even some places where there seems to echo. Curious feeling of walking back to the hotel tired with the constant desire to lose again.

byJavier Brandoli

24 January, 2012

Four unknown treasures of Patagonia

So many sites have hidden Patagonia! With the help of many people who wrote to me and left messages on Travel to the Past, I selected four unknown treasures of Patagonia.

byGerardo Bartolomé

22 January, 2012

Kenia, India: Bikes in the air

They say that here serves the cheapest beer in the city. Despite having been targeted in a series of terrible events of the year Islamists 2008, Leopold is always full

byMiquel Silvestre

21 January, 2012

America

Choquequiraw, Machu Picchu unknown

The fifteen years of Marco are engaged in a small and vibrant. She looks like a ragamuffin, fishing pants, skinny legs and feet under winged sandals fused to a dark.

byContributors

20 January, 2012

Sintra: romance with emergency exit

Do not expect anything from a site has a distinct advantage: your ability to surprise is infinite. I expected little more from my visit to Sintra, upon arrival, rain broke with a crash. The outcome could only improve.

byRicardo Coarasa

17 January, 2012

The traveler and the nostalgia (II y fin)

I look out the airplane window British leads me to Spain, after a stopover at Johannesburg. I am slowly losing the image of Table Mountain to be impossible to retain its shape. Symbolic image. Cape Town is over, just for now Africa.

byJavier Brandoli

16 January, 2012

Mustang: the last Himalayan kingdom

"El anciano nos observa mientras sorbemos nuestro té. A silhouette sad, with, Chartered over the years and, I temo, almost blind. Mustang is the king of, the mythical kingdom of Lo, access to the Tibetan plateau from India, tierra de comerciantes y bandidos".

byJuan Ramon Morales

15 January, 2012

Unknown Patagonia

The Patagonia, luckily, has literally hundreds of places far from civilization. In addition to the Perito Moreno, Ushuaia o Bariloche, jewelry stores will discover. 'Today we look amazing and unknown four places in Patagonia. Help us to choose them!

byGerardo Bartolomé

14 January, 2012

Guadalupe: the humble wisdom of rosaries seller

If civil war broke out Mexico, a mean, Guadalupe only be able to agree to the contestants. That fervor for dark-skinned virgin breathes like no other place in the Basilica of Guadalupe. At the gates of the temple, lucid heard the phrase from my trip.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 January, 2012

The nostalgia of the traveler (Part I)

You see your life pass, Cape Town was because my life, dim. Nostalgic things that resolves with a practical "and mind you that balls, all that is past ".

byJavier Brandoli

12 January, 2012

Bombay: tourism in the misery and death

(...) It was a miracle not have killed them all. Intruders in the asphalt that cause their death almost dragged a car. Above him is a bundle covered with a sheet of colors. One can guess that it is a human corpse (...)

byMiquel Silvestre

11 January, 2012

Unknown by Jaén (II): Giribaile, Pompeii small Iberian

The track increasingly narrow wriggle between the horizon of olive, as if they wanted to steal one meters of land planted. Up there, Giribaile the hill stands out as a lonely sentinel What has brought you here?

byRicardo Coarasa

10 January, 2012

The four animals that have to do in Patagonia

How difficult is to select only four animals of Patagonia! But if I have to opt for the essential, my choice is this: the southern right whale, the penguin, guanacos and condors. By Gerardo Bartolomé.

byGerardo Bartolomé

7 January, 2012

Villa Rica: the beginning of the epic of Hernán Cortés

The Ford Triton leads to Antigua Veracruz zebu crosses pastures and donkeys tied to trees with no owner in sight. The first city founded by Hernan Cortes in New Spain is the most impressive place I have visited so far in Mexico, I guess its historic aura. By Ricardo Coarasa.

byRicardo Coarasa

5 January, 2012

The animals most attractive in Patagonia

For a minute dream of a trip to Patagonia ... I chose what place in the previous post. Well ... now look at these photos of Patagonian animals. What would you like to see on your trip? Do all? Sure! But what think you should not miss? Help me choose four animals Patagonian fauna essential.

byGerardo Bartolomé

1 January, 2012

Julióbriga: the end of the Cantabrian tribes

A reservoir and a Roman road that crosses seven miles Cantabrian valleys. Julióbriga is a trip to the conquest of northern Spain by the Romans. A little known place, fascinating and nestled amidst a beautiful mountain landscape.

byEduardo De Winter

30 December, 2011

New Year in New York

New York fascinates and horrifies you. Everything at a glance. For those who do not go running away, here are ten essential proposals for those visiting for the first time the Big Apple. By Ricardo Coarasa.

byRicardo Coarasa

29 December, 2011

Waterfront: a tourist complexes bobo

(...) It's not my place or, I now understand, ceases to be. It's just a good place for a drink without thinking that in Africa the luxury malls are prepared for the rich or imbecility tourists. Remove bias is important to travel and sometimes unfair classism and falsely exercised looking up (...) Por Javier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

28 December, 2011

Kenya: the hard road barefoot lost shepherd

In a long line filled with coarse gravel divisive and two shadows in the distance. Two hikers. When I'm close to them I say something (...) In perfect English one, the youngest, turns to me and asked if this road I saw a man without shoes. By Miguel Silvestre.

byMiquel Silvestre

27 December, 2011

The three best "classics" of Patagonia

Perito Moreno, Bariloche Torres del Paine, three places in Patagonia that no one travel to this beautiful southern region may be lost. By Gerardo Bartolomé

byGerardo Bartolomé

25 December, 2011

El Tajin: the puzzle of the pyramid of the niches

We arrived in El Tajin, Archaeology swallowed by the jungle, ancestral pulse between stones and weeds, leaving behind rain, heat, rain again, and a grocery store after another on the shoulders, dotted watermelon vendors. By Ricardo Coarasa.

byRicardo Coarasa

23 December, 2011

Cape Town: life at low cost

Many who come to this beautiful city just sense the difference, but they never behold and believe to go visiting a corner of the first world beggars dotted invisible leaving sewers, converted into a dance hungry zombies and alcohol. They come from poverty in the slums of the low cost of living is, always at risk ... Por Javier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

22 December, 2011

Rioseta: perfect circus

Seldom have I encountered a landscape so overwhelming as Rioseta Circus, in the Aragonese Pyrenees. One step from the station Candanchú, This natural stone porch and creepy cut leaves absorbed the traveler who goes to Puerto del Somport, Summus Roman Portus, ancestral crossing between Spain and France. By Ricardo Coarasa

byRicardo Coarasa

21 December, 2011

Trujillo: the birthplace of the conquistador bastard

No one knew then or know it at the rest of his days, but at that moment began perhaps the greatest epic man who has made

byJavier Brandoli

20 December, 2011

"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