Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Veracruz: port of the legends

Veracruz is a place to stay stripped of duties and hours, enjoying the pleasure of reconciliation with the time, with the talks without violations. Veracruz is a port city, or a port city, which lower the flag and languish stress listening legends and terrible events that still disturb the daily cadence of jarochos.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 November, 2011

Nahuel Huapi: the last trip of the Perito Moreno

In 2003, along with my wife, stopped three days at the Inn Puerto Blest, an arm of Lake Nahuel Huapi, which flows into the mountains almost to the border with Chile. The boat passed us along to an island which is buried a beloved character for Argentina: Perito Moreno. Even today it is the custom of the boats to sound the horn three times in salute.

byGerardo Bartolomé

12 November, 2011

Mountains of Pakistan: in the land of infidels

Surrounded by a sea of ??Muslim peoples for centuries, wine, sexual freedom of their women and a very special way of understanding life is a surprise in this region known for its fanaticism and fugitives from legend that until recently have traveled, allegedly, Osama Bin Laden como, Without going any further.

byJuan Ramon Morales

10 November, 2011

Chimoio: Back to Africa

"hay un mercado en el que se venden los restos de los restos y a su alrededor una masa de gente que deambula vendiendo, looking, going, buying, drinking or eating, that the street is the great house of Africans. Next to the bus station, always meeting place for the cities, there is a market for indoor wooden huts. Almost no light enters or run the air. The fishy smell is intense dry"

byJavier Brandoli

8 November, 2011

San Juan de Ulúa: the last Spanish flag in Mexico

Veracruz is the beginning and end of the Spanish presence in Mexico. Landed on its shores the ships of Hernan Cortes and there remains the last bastion colonial, the fort of San Juan de Ulua, which last lowered the Spanish flag.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 November, 2011

The sentry on the island of the tiger

Who's in the coffin with that load these soldiers on the banks of a lake? What legacy left in the maps and the preservation of natural habitat? What is the name of the island where his remains lie? A track: still, vessels make it sound the horn three times a sign of respect as he passed his final resting place. The travel writer Gerardo Bartolomé enigmatic guide us in this trip next week.

byGerardo Bartolomé

6 November, 2011

Malicious: the cursed de Guadarrama

Some mountains appear to carry on his name a curse, as if dragged a relentless conviction or weighed on the same biblical anathema, but just hearing his name to be hopelessly attracted to them. It happened at the time with the Hells and Maladeta, in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and, more recently, the Malicious, Guadarrama.

byRicardo Coarasa

5 November, 2011

The black hole of Wadi Halfa

Wadi Halfa is a moridero. We can stay here forever accompanied by dust and life goes slow. My routine is always the same, sometimes lively night visits as of last night. I heard noises bag, like someone in our olives hurgase.

byMiquel Silvestre

3 November, 2011

Goodbye Zimbabwe, Mugabe goodbye

The feeling is that the country is undone, everything is decaying. No freedom dreamed of and fought, that a leader of your own skin color does not make you free, tions from comida, no security. It could be anything this beautiful country and the blame is not the liberators of the ancient tyrants. Zimbabwe has enough resources and infrastructure legacy-still languish- to dream of something more than a patriotic salute to the black cause. The cause is to have future black shelves.

byJavier Brandoli

2 November, 2011

The Ñatitas of La Paz: a Sunday between calaveras

In La Paz, sordid and magical, merciless and surprising, spiritual and pagan at a time, the feast of All Saints held off the beaten. A week later begins the Feast of Ñatitas and the city's indigenous majority is released to the cemeteries to hold a macabre and festive feast where the main guest is death. Welcome to one of the biggest shows of the World.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

31 Oct., 2011

Cape Horn: where the wind roars

We had to wake up early to have any chance to land before the outbreak of the wind. Standing at the stern of the boat launch expected to return the advance and whether the conditions were to lose. We were a mile of Cape Horn, but it was quite possible that we could not step on.

byGerardo Bartolomé

29 Oct., 2011

San Sebastián: the release of the French, the ashes of the British

I found the street 31 August, whose facades still whisper nightmares of fire and looting. That day 1813, Allied troops consisting of British and Portuguese soldiers launched the final assault on San Sebastian. The French army could not stand the onslaught and retreated to the Castillo de la Mota, a twelfth-century fortress

byEduardo De Winter

27 Oct., 2011

Karen Blixen and recent memories of Africa

(...) The lake is a tribute to the film with his viewpoint. This is the viewpoint named Out of Africa, and stands at the west end of park. Since it shows a breathtaking panorama of the lake, the banks and the incomprehensible stain pink flamingo ..., by Alfonso Polvorinos

byContributors

25 Oct., 2011

The Highlands and the last night in Zimbabwe

We walked along a narrow dirt road that is gaining ground in the middle of a forest where almost no light slips. Among lianas, branches that must be overcome under, fallen logs and following the progress of a boy who leads a path that seems eternal. Occasionally we heard the sound of water near and suddenly disappears. No one sees only the horizon.

byJavier Brandoli

24 Oct., 2011

The end of the world out

Water shipwrecks and violent storms in a corner of the world. Route of brave sailors and threatening cliffs What geographic location is recognized that in the picture? How does the Gold Route of Spanish America? What stories of tragedy and suffering hide those rocks? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome has the keys. The answers, within a week VaP..

byGerardo Bartolomé

23 Oct., 2011

Dodging rocks

The Coptic maze

"Why should we do it?”, replied the owner of a hotel. "This is our country. We were before. We just want our rights. We silent centuries, enduring humiliation, but things are coming to a intolerable. They want us out but we will not go. Addition, Where do I go? This is my home and my business. It's my life ".

byMiquel Silvestre

21 Oct., 2011

Arlington Cemetery: the american way of death

People have ways of living and, also, to die. Just shop around for their cemeteries. The Arlington is very revealing of the American soul, always proud of their patriotism and their heroes. Names 300.000 Fallen, orphans stories, bewilder the visitor. But its headstones are aligned with neatly cut lawns millimeter, in the shade of trees and with negligible views. Death can also be comfortable. Es el american way of death.

byRicardo Coarasa

19 Oct., 2011

Mana Pools: Buffalo attack, the night of hyenas

Suddenly comes a hyena that crosses in front of me, less than five meters, along the shore. At another time I guess I would have been paralyzed but not in the Mana Pools Park where one accepts the surprising part of the routine.

byJavier Brandoli

17 Oct., 2011

Valley 16 of October: the plebiscite of the schoolhouse

On the morning of 30 April 1902 Holdich convinced Moreno to go to school in the valley. When the Argentine and English arrived, the boys sang the anthem of Argentina. Holdich, between intrigued and excited, wondered aloud whether they preferred to be from Argentina or Chile. All responded in unison "Argentina!”, although with a foreign accent.

byGerardo Bartolomé

15 Oct., 2011

Border Tourism, adventure sports

(...) We were inside a closed room and dark. I looked incredulous and suggested the intervention of an American president. "Which of them are talking?”, he asked with a toothpick sticking between the teeth. “¿Qué tal Andrew Jackson?”, suggested. “No, ese is no me, Ulisses mejor. S Grant”. And so the president whose face appears on the fifty-dollar bills helped me cross.

byMiquel Silvestre

14 Oct., 2011

Berna: five centuries of imprisonment for the bears

(...) Is 1513 when the soldiers come home victors of the Battle of Novara carrying a live bear as a trophy. We decide to build an animal enclosure, a pit before the central door (...) French General Brune humiliated in 1798 to the Bernese after taking the city and take all the animals to Paris.

byJavier Brandoli

12 Oct., 2011

Lago Turkana: towards the Jade Sea

(...) Going up a wall of lava is opening before them a surreal scene. A huge expanse of water, verde jade, hit by a steady wind and surrounded by small volcanoes. Teleki and Von Hohnel completed well, for European cartographers, the map of the African Great Lakes with the farthest, inaccessible and mysterious of all, from Lake Turkana.

byJuan Ramon Morales

10 Oct., 2011

The stone which averted a war

What border dispute between Argentina and Chile helped solve this stone next to the Andes? A track: bears the name of a British colonel sent by Queen Victoria to arbitrate the dispute and avoid a war between the two countries. Behind this story there is an interesting story that will within a week the writer and traveler VaP. Gerardo Bartolomé.

byGerardo Bartolomé

9 Oct., 2011

Matusadona: the park that does not belong to the maps

Matusadona is a treat to the senses. A unique park, very beautiful, Africa teaches from the waters. It is so removed from everything that seems to be hidden from the world, as if there's life to develop on his back, the shadows (...) This place has something of paradise vetoed, end of nowhere where I never found, of piece of land that belongs to the maps.

byJavier Brandoli

7 Oct., 2011

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