Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Kuna Yala Islands: "Lost" in the middle of the Caribbean by 20 dollars a day

To inhabit a deserted island, without electricity or running water, between the Caribbean Sea is a unique experience. Sleep rough at night under starry skies only light a fire. Pure nature.

byJavier Brandoli

15 August, 2011

Tuscany: the secret of Chianti Route

Florence, Siena, Pisa .... There are few places in the world with more beauty accumulated Tuscany. Art history and overwhelming that this time the mix with the allure of Chianti Route. Small towns, medieval aspect, scattered around a small road through Tuscany. Good restaurants and good hotels to go to one of our favorite routes.

byJavier Brandoli

11 August, 2011

Libya: a meeting with Gaddafi's "boys"

(...) Arriving at the check point appears to the passenger car made by my disobedience basilisk. Dressed in camouflage, with tight-fitting T-shirt, very short and slicked back hair, mirrored sunglasses. Pushes and jostles, forces me to dismount rudely, requires a passport.

byMiquel Silvestre

10 August, 2011

Tordesillas: the demise of Queen Jane

Tordesillas oozes history from every pore. Is one of those places that are traveled sensing a rich past. In this village on the banks of the Duero Spanish where Spain and Portugal divided the world was half a century captive Queen Juana, llamada "La loca", taken out of heartbreak and melancholy.

byRicardo Coarasa

8 August, 2011

Prague: of ring of Kafka

It was both his prison and inspiration. Of the atmosphere oprimía, but also gave vent to his literary talent. Praga y Kafka. Kafka y Praga. No means the one without the other. Its streets are the ring where the tormented writer himself settled accounts in search of a reason to redeem the absurdity of existence.

byRicardo Coarasa

4 August, 2011

The Galapagos Islands were born in a village in Soria

A Spanish Berlanga de Duero, Soria, discovered the Galapagos Islands for a total calm wind took his boat to this natural paradise. In the collegiate church of the Spanish population an alligator hanging upside down remember the feat of his countryman.

byContributors

3 August, 2011

Normandy: the footprints of the «Longest Day»

The beaches of Normandy are a fascinating trail of war who has lived most cruel man. Between sand, museums, churches and cliffs can discover everything that happened 6 June 1944 in which the sea dawned with a date with history.

byJavier Brandoli

1 August, 2011

Europe

Ithaca: in the homeland of Ulysses

It seems a whim of the gods, strangled by anger of Poseidon or Zeus himself the ray. Its shape is rebellious and field, abrupt. But, transmits calmness and serenity. Ithaca, the homeland of Odysseus, breathe under a blue sky and sea embracing lives, the Ionian Sea, the sea in Greece.

byContributors

30 July, 2011

Three week visit to Zimbabwe

(...) sail on Lake Kariba and sleep three nights on their, I hope, calm waters; and I'll get to the mountains of Nyanga park where tumbling water see you again, this time at the falls Mutarazi (...), porJavier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

29 July, 2011

Humboldt and the Teide

(...) before crossing the Atlantic, Humboldt made a scale that changed his life and laid the foundation, inter alia, of modern phytogeography. It was in Tenerife, where he arrived on 19 June 1799. The departure of the Spanish corvette Pizarro, who should bring to America.

byContributors

27 July, 2011

Kumari: the loneliness of the girl goddess

The carriage is ready. Within hours, la Kumari, the girl goddess, leave in procession through the streets of Kathmandu, a strong tradition that even the Maoists have dared to liquidate. But the small awaits a bleak future when his divine halo fades.

byRicardo Coarasa

25 July, 2011

Monte Darwin: El Desquite Shipton

Shipton fell into a deep depression over losing the mountain to which he had prepared all his life: el Everest. He decided to be the person who had conquered mountains, the largest number 1 history. There were many virgin peaks in the northern hemisphere, so we laid eyes on the ice fields between Argentina and Chile. There were dozens of unexplored mountains.

byGerardo Bartolomé

23 July, 2011

Sport in South African townships

...Only a few used condoms with the band, in the grass, remember that we are in territory fucked. The rest is an installation of the first set in a third zone. Langa is one of those neighborhoods where the salads are dressed with oil from the car..

byJavier Brandoli

22 July, 2011

Epupa Falls: the water of the tribe of mud

It is without doubt one of the nicest places I've gone for Africa. North of Namibia, difficult to access, there are some spectacular waterfalls. Next to them the primitive tribe of the Himba and their ancient customs that are sold to the dollar. A fascinating world.

byJavier Brandoli

21 July, 2011

Towards the Grand Canyon

(...) A Mexican told me that the teacher hit them when they spoke Spanish. Almost on the border with Mexico, Columbus appears, a tiny village that had its moment of fame when Pancho Villa made in 1916 one of their raids. The raid would bring death.

byMiquel Silvestre

19 July, 2011

Patan: penance unfortunate goat

Languish at the gates of the temple as rags. It looks hungry and look, sad. No caress, no hand to lengthen them some food. Starve or sacrificed to Shiva. These goats wandering like lost souls bear the sins of devotees are Hindus and considered impure.

byRicardo Coarasa

18 July, 2011

The Everest climber overcome by

He dreamed, like so many other climbers of the time, to become the first man to tread the summit of Everest, but the glory was elusive. Sorry, heart rumbo a la Patagonia. Other peaks waiting to be conquered virgin. What is the name of the British explorer and mountaineer image? What feats he starred in southern lands? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome will tell the story in next week VaP..

byGerardo Bartolomé

17 July, 2011

The story of a hero in the Republic Center- African

A Spanish doctor who was left alone while the rest fled by the arrival of the guerrilla. One night healing people and seeing how they killed. He saved dozens of lives. Passed fear, very afraid, but decided not to leave. The story of a hero.

byJavier Brandoli

15 July, 2011

On the trail of the Spanish explorers forgotten

With the support of the Spanish Geographical Society, the writer and traveler Miquel Silvestre, contributor to this magazine, begins a motorcycle expedition around the world, to last more than year and a half, on the trail of the Spanish explorers who were strangers to show, how were the sights they saw and how they look now.

byMiquel Silvestre

14 July, 2011

Tales from the Bronx: Apache District graffiti

It is one of those names that could be heard swallowing. The Bronx. For those who have grown up with movies like "Fort Apache" or watching Charles Bronson pursue criminals through the streets, this New York neighborhood was synonymous with danger. Now, marginal stories are told in graffiti from their buildings.

byRicardo Coarasa

12 July, 2011

Bhaktapur: Sunday dishes Kathmandu Valley

The immaculate Bhaktapur is the darling of the Kathmandu Valley. There are no trash on the street, street or sticking your shadow, motorcycles or pedestrians dodging between horns. It happens that if you've traveled before the center of Kathmandu, can not avoid a certain feeling of unreality neat.

byRicardo Coarasa

11 July, 2011

Santa Cruz River: the wake of Fitz Roy

"A row which is the curve!”, I shouted to my comrades and eagerly returned to take the boat to the middle of the river. "How much we?"I asked one of them. I surprised GPS, separated us only ten minutes by boat from the enigmatic Basalt Glen Fitz Roy.

byGerardo Bartolomé

9 July, 2011

Memories of the World Cup in South Africa

The World Cup is in my heart the night that after the Spain-Portugal ended up at the Cuban bar in Cape Town watching an average Spanish team got drunk at five o'clock surrounded by ladies of paid and unpaid.

byJavier Brandoli

7 July, 2011

Almería: the cave where the Indalo was born

What is the symbol that appears in many car sticker in Spanish that seen hugging a man holding a rainbow or arc? Where is the Indalo, symbol of Almería? Who pinto? Why? Can be? All the answers are in Vélez Blanco, town in northern province, fascinating in Prehistoric Cave Signs.

byJavier Brandoli

6 July, 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