Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Santa Orosia: the chapels of the princess beheaded

A young princess beheaded for refusing to marry a Saracen. A gorge in the rock hidden shrines, of hermits back to the world, of legends and traditions. Scenarios runs VaP. martyrdom of St. Orosia in Aragon.

byRicardo Coarasa

5 Oct., 2011

Voulet there Chanonne: the macabre killing French Niger

And Kakpu, the inhabitants had been completely stripped and burned their crops. In Sassanné Houssa over a hundred women and children were killed and decapitated bayonet stroke being too weak to serve the army. Each time a carrier could not follow was executed with his sword and left to the vultures to save bullets.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

3 Oct., 2011

Chubut River: Crossing the Welsh

The sun was beginning to fall and Roberts decided that this would be the camping site. They put the few wagons forming a barrier to fend off a hypothetical Indian attack at night. The Welsh had had bad experiences in this regard.

byGerardo Bartolomé

1 Oct., 2011

Route 66 (III): the culmination of a dream

New Mexico, as well as Arizona, is an arid land, rough, ocher, that of the cowboy and Indian movies: rocks, authentic scenarios of a film by John Ford, in which a Navajo can peer into the abyss.

byContributors

30 September, 2011

Maputo: the most beautiful train station in the world

Maputo has an important historical legacy. Account, say, with one of the ten most beautiful train stations in the world, designed by Eiffel; a fort in which he played the fate of the colonies of South Africa; an iron house as beautiful as useless and the arena to the south of the planet. A special city.

byJavier Brandoli

28 September, 2011

36 horas navegando el Lago Kariba

Then, Captain looks at me and said how about you? I looked and even calculating what they mean 15 I answer years: "I do not know what I'll do the next 15 minutes ". We laugh and we enjoy beating of waters began to rise in the wind. "Sometimes they become ten feet, tell me.

byJavier Brandoli

26 September, 2011

The stone sentinel of the Patagonian steppe

An epic journey across the plains to meet the Patagonian Andes. What do you call this huge stone? On the verge of what river is located? What group of settlers was a reference point on their long journey? The details of history is the writer and traveler <strong>Gerardo Bartolomé</strong>. The next weekend, and VAP.

byGerardo Bartolomé

25 September, 2011

Route 66 (II): through the lands of the "red people"

The asphalt boil at noon. The first rays of sunlight are absorbed by the soil; after a while and can not cope and road burns. Staking the edges, The bulle fe.

byContributors

23 September, 2011

Timanfaya: splendor between volcanoes

The best gift you can make a trip is to keep intact the capacity to surprise. He had traveled to Lanzarote towards a sun and beach tourism and, when I knew it, was walking between dormant volcanoes in a landscape devastated by the wrath of the bowels of the Earth.

byRicardo Coarasa

21 September, 2011

Narva: Lenin statue forgotten

Narva is the name of a city estonia. Is, also, the river from the early Middle Ages has delineated the border between Russia and Estonia accessible in the Gulf of Finland. Two castles, on either side, emerge as stone sentinels wary.

byRicardo Coarasa

17 September, 2011

Route 66 (In): the road without borders

And Oklahoma, in the heart of America, where the sun punishes the existence, a businessman, Cyrus Avery, dreamed of a network of interstate highways. That idea went to the American Association of State Highway. Thus born, in 1926, Route 66. This is the chronicle of a trip 3.600 kilometers back of a Harley Davidson. By Diego COBO.

byContributors

16 September, 2011

A beer in Victoria Falls: the promise of the end

And he looked, side again looked hop Zambia, where I lived last year unrepeatable moments. And laughed and waited for Fernando Bernardo, I called to join the group, and I put back on the precipice of rocks where the water was a blanket that you calaba, and never wanted to leave, and the delayed, I almost know acojonaba beginning to put a period and what followed? the best year and a half of my life.

byJavier Brandoli

15 September, 2011

America

Irene: the hurricane did to New York sleep

This is the chronicle of a city paralyzed by the threat of a hurricane. New York, the city that never slept, finally began closing for a few hours. Irene was at fault. If Frank Sinatra raise his head ...

byContributors

13 September, 2011

The great African migration and Joubert

Once again the spectacle of the wildebeest crossing the river, again the lurking crocodiles, again one of the most exciting major wildlife documentaries in store. And there beside them, positioned our car.

byContributors

12 September, 2011

Bahia Manzano: prisoner of Chief Sayhueque

Wanted to spend a winter holiday of tranquility and comfort and for this we chose a small hotel with all amenities in a very special, Bahia Manzano. (...) That this experience different from all that lived when the Perito Moreno, exploring the area, became apparent to the Chief guest Sayhueque, about 130 years back.

byGerardo Bartolomé

10 September, 2011

The hotel of the trees and the words

He threw earth to control the wind, loaded his gun and looked not meet me surrounded by pachyderms. In the jungle, the market, without defenses, and controlling the rustling of leaves that were on the floor carpet. Africa.

byJavier Brandoli

8 September, 2011

Rhineland-Palatinate: stone sentinels of the Rhine

Following the course of the Rhine is to cross over the waters of Europe's history. A flow may be the best road we understand the past of a region. In this case, the route leaves you speechless. The castles and fortresses are happening before our eyes. The river is just a spectator.

byJavier Brandoli

7 September, 2011

Great Zimbabwe: the ruins of Black Africa

(...) Connect the last great king with the revolutionary little dictator rules the country; the great liberator who has left so many dead machete as will leave them with hunger if you will not soon, he decided to invent a royal line that jumps several centuries in time. Robert Mugabe, senses of Zimbabwe, name has become a direct descendant of the great African pride.

byJavier Brandoli

1 September, 2011

Bosnia: when the bullets are souvenirs

(...) Going from Split, the territory is mostly Bosnian Croat. At the pump allowed the Kuna, Croatian currency, and sell alcohol and pornography. Bosnia does not have its own currency, works with euro. There are many churches. May not devotion but political. Like the minarets, crosses are flags ...

byMiquel Silvestre

29 August, 2011

Gonarezhou: the garden of the baobab

(...) Sometimes tourists ended excursions on foot after being assaulted and car stolen in the middle of the visit. A free in the package include a walking safari to the hotel. That is the past ...

byJavier Brandoli

26 August, 2011

Spain

Cuenca: track of the impregnable wall

A city of steep, narrow streets in which history is palpable to the rhythm of the feet. Cuenca is one of those Spanish villas step that is required. Its cathedral and the well known Hanging Houses have made this spot an icon that we all have in memory.

byJavier Brandoli

25 August, 2011

Antigua: the Pompeii of Guatemala

Antigua is a city molded out of eruptions and earthquakes, leading to dress in the footsteps of dozens of violent earthquakes. Three volcanoes have not been enough to subdue this beautiful Guatemalan village rocked by powerful innards plates.

byRicardo Coarasa

22 August, 2011

Patagonia: the promised land of the Welsh

I played ring, the door opened: "Croeso i ¡Patagonia!"I told the woman. "Thanks for the welcome Monica in Welsh." I replied. Finally we reached Gaiman, center of one of the greatest curiosities of the area: Welsh colony in Patagonia through.

byGerardo Bartolomé

20 August, 2011

La Antigua Veracruz: the Rubicon of Cortez

Antigua is the back of modern Veracruz. It is not touched by the golden wand of tourism, but the mixing of Mexico today began to take shape on its shores, where nearly five centuries ago began the great adventure of Hernán Cortés, who decided to sink their ships there, not burn, to close any possibility of return and thus put towards the great Moctezuma Aztec Court.

byRicardo Coarasa

18 August, 2011

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