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Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Ring 300 miles to go El Bierzo

A nature trail around the whole region. More 300 km, in 15 steps monographic. A kind of Camino de Santiago, the famous route signposted Xacobea, in the midst of steep peaks. Almost abandoned villages, ancient trees, huts, brañas and animals (...), by Javier BRANDOLI.
byJavier Brandoli
16 April, 2011

Sargadelos, Lugo: smoking history

Sargadelos Lugo is a parish with just over 150 inhabitants. It may seem an unimportant, but at its heart lies the factory that introduced the first industrial capitalism in Spain, by Ed&Different.
byContributors
14 April, 2011

Tashilumpo: Giant Buddha Rats

Tashilunpo monastery was home to the second authority in Tibet, The Panchen Lama. When the Dalai Lama fled the Chinese invasion, Beijing sought and found their support. But the idyll did not last long and ended up imprisoned Panchen Lama. I'm in Shigatse, at the foot of the largest Buddha statue in the world. A monk asked me 30 photograph yuan. Is it true that some of them are Chinese agents?
byRicardo Coarasa
7 April, 2011

Wulaia: Fitz Roy Indians

We were in the ship's stern, with our life jackets and very warm, ready to embark on the boats. "We follow you, we get us a picture of the little Indians. "he said smiling Mrs. Chilean. "What pressure!"I thought. By Gerardo BARTHOLOMEW.
byRicardo Coarasa
3 April, 2011

Huascar, floating relic world's oldest

The Huascar is named after a brother of Atahualpa, the penultimate Inca. Taken away to Peru 1879, lies in Chilean waters turned into a museum ship. The oldest relic in the world floating is a good excuse to get close to the Chilean city of Talcahuano.
byContributors
2 April, 2011

Salto Angel, Venezuela: King of heaven and the quest for gold

The 9 October 1937 la avioneta de James Crawford Angel -Jimmy Angel- touched the top of Auyan-tepui. It was the first time a human being trampled on Auyán. The landing gear broke in so daring maneuver and the aircraft was unfit to take off. There was no alternative, had to go on foot. Almost half a month took the browser Jimmy Angel and his fellow expedition to find the only way down and down from the top of Auyan-tepui to camp Uruyén, where he hoped Felix Cardona. Only had food for a week. But this story begins a few years ago ...
byContributors
31 March, 2011

Biosphere II: the failure of the Eden of human guinea pigs

Those chosen for the glory had passed demanding entrance exams, were supposed to mature, stable and committed, but as soon began living together, were divided into factions almost immediately, conspired among themselves, openly hated and even hid food. Although it could be argued that finding such phenomena of selfishness and conflict, might not have been necessary to spend many millions of dollars and a mangrove planting in the desert.
byMiquel Silvestre
30 March, 2011

Andelos: Roman water lesson

The Roman site of Andelos, Navarre, is surely one of the best known of Spain. But his impressive hydraulic system is quite a masterful teaching for future generations on a challenge that still brings us head in the XXI century: rational water use, el "oro azul".
byContributors
29 March, 2011

In the guts of a story

“Desplomado, snoring. Are 10:15 morning. I try not to make noise and grab the pen on the table and put my name, Name and signature, as I did when I was here last time (as it will no). All very quietly so as not to wake. Call the elevator and when the doors open man, the security guard of a public building where they are settled land claims, continues with his head on his shoulder removed and still achieve a final hear snoring "
byJavier Brandoli
25 March, 2011

Other's eyes

It is a question with a thousand faces. On the road, in gutters, in their fields, about transistor, in the shade of a tree, in a crowded bus, in a tractor trailer, among the stalls of a market. The look of the other surprises you at every step, sometimes fleeting, other infinite. Zarandea, restless, softens, forces you to think, as. It happens that, when we are so far from home, the other is us.
byRicardo Coarasa
21 March, 2011

Riding of the Queen of Africa

(...) The African Queen, the truth, never sailed these waters. He did in Eastern Africa. That was his role skippered by Charlie Allnut to supply the villages of East Africa at the beginning of the First World War (...). When a film helps you discover a continent.
byContributors
19 March, 2011

Africa: the "city fish" shampoo

The answer, like everything else in the economy, is based on the relationship I have, would and could, universal law that divides the rest essentials. Much of Angola's population does not use toilet paper, expensive and imported article, lo que hace que el papel higiénico sea un producto de "lujo" priced for its economy would be equivalent to cleanse the back (pardon me) the Encyclopedia Espasa-Calpe.
byJavier Brandoli
18 March, 2011

The cemetery of heroes painted by Goya

They were ordinary people, but they behaved like heroes against the invader. In France and England, they have erected a pantheon of illustrious men. Here, have to settle for a modest cemetery Madrid, the Florida, whose existence few people know. His glory is immortalized in a painting by Francisco de Goya, that of the shootings, but close to this cemetery to honor should be almost a moral obligation.
byRicardo Coarasa
15 March, 2011
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