In the footsteps of a true explorer
Brake, I turn around and see that your bike is on the ground. No movement. It rises. It beckons me. Scares me to see, tail and sped back. I shouted his name if I can hear. By Miguel Silvestre.
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Best of Patagonia
What are the three best places in Patagonia? Help the writer and traveler Gerardo Bartolome to choose these three wonderful southern photographic ten proposals.
The Bazaruto Archipelago: the brutal beauty of a goodbye
(...) Azura transports its wealthy clients, Harrison Ford had to stay, by helicopter from the airport. How does one cross the globe to sleep in a place or are not willing to walk its streets and its waters? (...) Por Javier Brandoli.
Tlacotalpan: the revolution of "carpenter" Porfirio
Often, the difference between a place on the map and swell the long list of forgotten cities is an illustrious son to be proud of. Tlacotalpan is fortunate to be able to wield the birth certificate of one of the great, Mexican composer Agustin Lara.
Unknown by Jaén (In): the rock paintings of Sierra Morena
There are two, looking at the world as more of 6.000 years, when our ancestors painted in a corner of Sierra Morena. On the bare stone broken for ever and ever, the silhouettes of carmine powder have become a generation after another. Have overcome the time. Son eternas.
Ethiopia (II):Forgotten Tomb Pedro Páez
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After reaching a plateau, I admire the stunning views. The lake will be about 10 kilometers that extends over a succession of gentle hills and lush fertile in crops, forests and farms. Farmers and cows roam this idyllic horizon. This scenario is the closest thing I've ever seen the Garden of Eden (...) By Miguel Silvestre.
Trip to «The Galapagos» of Patagonia
From the heights of the cliffs in the Deseado estuary watched the strange triangular stone that marked the place where the crew of the Beagle encamped in the afternoon of 1834. The view was absolutely breathtaking. (...) "No I have never seen a place apart from the world that this rocky crevice in the wide plain", Darwin wrote in his diary, and today this remains true.
Vilanculos: malaria and the home of artisans
"Sandy ha pasado más de 30 times since he decided in malaria 1999 come and live with your partner, Snowy, a Vilanculos, a natural paradise where the buzz of a mosquito can mean loss of life"
The eyes of the girl in Eyipantla Viridiana
The Eyipantla jump is one of those waterfalls that return the traveler a breath of freedom that has been left as shreds by the way of life. But not water, in, what comes to mind when I think of this cascade, but huge eyes, lively but sad, perhaps resigned. The eyes of the little Viridiana.
Camel Road Gates Sahara
"Llevamos 4 running days. Not hot, Contrary to what most thought. The light reverberates on mica lining the road, where more than one occasion the rounded forms of the abundant fossils or arrowheads are more unreal the way in which we operate under the slow pace of camels, as in a dream"
The port of the unknown species
Where in the Patagonia takes this scene and how interesting discovery made Darwin there? Why adventurers were going up the river and looking for what? Gerardo Bartolomé once again takes us into the dark side of the Patagonia.
Ethiopia (In): in search of Spanish who discovered the sources of the Blue Nile
Children are behind the rider meowing "yuiyuiyui"; yui means foreign. All reach out asking for money. The panhandling becomes suffocating. It is certainly worse than in any other African country that has been. As for the legend that throw stones, true. Some of these beggars are children and there are also skillful slingers to be careful.
Morelia: City of gemstones
The magnificent arcaded Plaza de Armas is. These portals were a genuine Spanish products. It was the taste of King Philip II, who saw them ideal places for trade. Today is the place of the cafes and social appointments, and terraces are home to countless hotels.
The strange story of a normal day in Africa
A workshop between chickens and debris; un banco con entradas para "ricos" y "pobres"; un zimbabuense que se cruzó la frontera con sus caballos a Mozambique huyendo de la "guerra"; a bicycle hanging from the fish; a road impassable; an eternal corner ... A day in Vilanculos.
The oldest doll hospital in Europe
It's the closest I've been a dream factory. Brokedown Palace, convalescent, in the ICU some, but dreams at the end of the day. Here are responsible for recovering their magic, to burnish, of return haloed with the same enthusiasm for the first time. A unique place it, only. It is the oldest doll hospital in Europe, almost two centuries behind, but for most tourists are walking around Lisbon probably go unnoticed.
Michoacán: trip to the Basque utopia of Tata
All of Michoacan Mexican Basque carried Quiroga in the heart. Wherever you go, and Tata Vasco, as the Indians called him-tata in Tarascan means father-, is here a figure of the first order, one Spanish that five centuries after his death is revered by the coexistence model that established the utopia inspired by Thomas More. In Spain, however, is a great unknown.
The defensive line of the coast of Malaga and the XXI century
I visited several towers greet the Mediterranean and in the past showed challenging to those who dared challenge its water from the peninsula. The sun shone on the calm blue sea, a gentle breeze caressing our faces, the same wind that blew past the sails of the ships with letters of marque.
Vilanculos: dismissed in paradise
While waiting in the sun for someone to come to our rescue and we saw happen to Mozambicans who walk, Like most African, in the middle of nowhere doing nothing other, get a truck from the hotel. One can already sense that it must be a special place a place that stands for a way impossible
Laguna Catemaco: between monkeys and shamans
Catemaco is a beautiful lagoon with two distinctive colorful Mexican: claims to be the world capital of witchcraft and is home to a colony of macaques relocated from Thailand. Ie, you never know if the tourists which gets into the boat come here to eat them primates in the hand or to get a "clean" spirits 100 weights.
Landing in the land of the giants
This is a major marine epics of all times. Who were the crew of a modern replica of an old ship? Where they are and to what place the ship was heading? How does this course with the origin of Patagonia? The writer and traveler Gerardo Bartolomé has the answers. Within a week, and VAP.
A tuc tuc to "escape" from Sudan
I'm tired of waking up with a Sudanese glued to the hump, however sympathetic it. What I want is to get out and leave behind the black hole and all its inhabitants.
Rascafría: the bridge of forgiveness and the house of the hanged
And is that for those with at least three votes against innocent, the next destination was waiting a mile above, towards the port of Boundaries: the House of Gallows. Death or life depending on the distributers of Justice decided that the prisoner was to turn his steps to the right or left.
The five best sunsets in the world
What are the best sunsets on the planet? Where can seen the best of the sun gear? Here are our five proposals. What are your?
Robberies suffered by police in Africa
Of course, negotiating the ridiculous rule violation, in which the group of policemen paid in cash the amount agreed upon bargaining, it addresses all, it would be a humiliating lack of authority for agents that are robbing you hide.
