The island of desolation
[st] Wrote a famous traveler: "On the horizon, the clouds, This mountainous and inclement island was outlined ...…
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A bike at the Cervantes
When the stories are true, no euphemisms or complex, and count what you see and hear, the reader stops reading and begins to make a trip. Ésa es una parte del secreto de "Un millón de piedras". In VOD We are proud to have a staff of top-level staff. Miquel Silvestre teaches a different view of the world through his motorcycle. His book has already exhausted the first edition and just have the recognition of the Instituto Cervantes in Rome.
South Africa Correspondent: goodbye to the sycophants of papo
(...) Correspondent work takes you away from the prominent papos sycophants who prowl the newsroom; of that market with the drool and news (...) of those who admire the amount of hours over the quality of the words; of pats on the shoulder when your subject is shaken by the social gatherings; of the miserable than ever tremble at the keyboard ...
Uclés Monastery: the house of the Order of Santiago
When thinking of the Middle Ages come to mind always the same recurring topics: impregnable fortresses, bloody wars, religious orders ... Uclés Monastery has a lot of three things, so no need to say anything more to justify a visit to this impressive collection is a National Monument 1931. It was the home of the mighty Order of Santiago, sits on a hill and its sturdy walls seems to have stopped the story.
The most impressive stupa of Tibet
On the Tibetan city of Gyantse some capricious god one day due to launch a curse. His two great treasures, a monastery and a fortress, were destroyed without mercy. But as the gods crowded but not drown, at least it is one of the most impressive stupas (funerary monuments) Tibet.
Perito Moreno: Glacier lies
We were in front of the Perito Moreno glacier, undoubtedly the most amazing glacier world. This is a huge tongue of ice two miles wide coming down from the ice fields on the southern Andes, Lago Argentino cutting as it would have dreamed of escaping from Egypt Moses.
David Livingstone: the "roaring smoke" or "mosi oa tunya"
La Piscina del Diablo en "Mosi oa Tunya" is one of the trails that follow David Livingstone in Zambia. We talk about the mighty Victoria Falls and more than a hundred meter fall and nearly two miles long. The pious Livingstone was the first European to set foot on this fascinating place. A tale trail Livingstone Zambia.
The life of Christians in the Middle East
A bishop afraid in Uzbekistan, a priest who plucks the bells in Iran, a group of women who smoke and do not wear headscarves in Iraq, a community of respected Christians in Syria, a cathedral next to a mosque in Lebanon, un hombre que se niega a irse "de la tierra en que nació Jesús" Jordan. A great story of Christianity in the Middle East.
Highgate: forgotten cemetery Karl Marx
On a hill, Victorian graves surrounded by other illustrious neighbors, lies the body of Karl Marx. In Highgate Cemetery, in London, a place of magic. Dense vegetation between sculpture and a bust tombs under which you read a historical phrase: "Trabajadores del mundo uniros".
Neither does a reincarnation ends meet
Why is the female reincarnation of Tibet's most famous finishes in the pay of the Chinese Government? Is it possible to use his "secret forces" to attract men? Find the answers to these and other questions in this new stage of a journey through Tibet.
What secret behind this old photo?
It is the glacier glacier. Tens of thousands of visitors each year admire. But the imposing mass of ice contains a handful of clichés and lies In what era is this photo? What lies save this famous glacier in Patagonia?
South African Cinema: bites in consciousness
A child raped by boyfriend, having AIDS, his mother; a view of the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation (created to grant amnesty to all who will plead guilty after apartheid) that uncovers the brutal torture and betrayal at the time of the racist regime.
Villarreal de San Carlos: the way of the bandits
Anyone who approaches the National Park Monfragüe, Cáceres, Villarreal will go through San Carlos. This small hamlet is the only town that exists in the interior and the point of departure for most tours. But the village, located in an area that was ancient feud Highwaymen, is much more than just a place of passage.
A cross the Himalayas with a rookie driver
As we left Lhasa, Bumble each of the buttons on the dashboard to make sure what they are. Circulates 50 km / h, are continuing their sharp braking and cornering takes every invading the wrong lane, whether or not visibility. The driver of the SUV that should lead us to Kathmandu, 1.100 km across the Himalayas. I will travel through one of the most dangerous roads of the earth with a conductor trainee. I'm excited.
Sailing with Malaspina
"Del 30 July 1789 until 18 September 1794, the Spanish Navy officers Alejandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante y Guerra led an expedition around the world geopolitical ..." Two centuries later I got on the boat. A day with Malaespina.
Tibet: in the bowels of the Potala
Top of the buttresses that support the Potala to plunge into the heart of the former winter palace of the Dalai Lama is like crossing the drawbridge of one of those castles of Amadis of Gaul that lit the holy madness of Don Quixote our universal.
Croeso i Patagonia!
[st] Stories of migrants who cross the Atlantic in mid-nineteenth century in search of new horizons. Languages…
The reincarnated brown ant
The height reduces the oxygen level and complicated movements. At first it is imperceptible, but then it will increasingly notice. The dawn of our eighth day of the Annapurna circuit is overwhelming.
The woman from my balcony
The woman from my balcony is just a story I see from my window. A woman, like so many here, living on the street, keeping your belongings in a culvert and waiting for her life consumed. Llevo un año mirando lo que hace "la mujer desde mi balcón".
Schaller, twentieth-century naturalist
Many national parks and protected areas as far away as the Amazon, Nepal and China are due to the work of George B German. Schaller. His life is part of the natural history of this planet. Seguimos en VaP diseccionando la "historia verde".
Norbulingka: the Dalai Lama's "driving school"
The summer palace of the highest spiritual authority of Buddhism, the "Jewel Park", is the antithesis of the city-fortress of the Potala. In the walled garden outside the current Dalai Lama Lhasa, Tenzin Gyatso, learned to drive in two and a Dodge Austin as his predecessor did bring in pieces across the Himalayas to the astonishment of people who lived at anchor in the Middle Ages.
Penguin Island: displaced from the Falklands War
The boat departed from Puerto Deseado and sped over the blue waters of the South Atlantic. “¡Delfines!"Shouted a European tourist and the helmsman turned to port to approach bottlenose dolphins, these black-backed white dolphins living in the Patagonia.
A China, an Angolan, a South African… cardboard and rabbits
Cape Town is a city created the world remains, lives arrivals from afar, opposing cultures, Goodie, meaningless laughter, desires. It is the history of Angolan driver who wants to be millionaire, the synagogue, the Muslim Quarter and the smell of species.
Glacier Gangapurna: ally against altitude sickness
I do not know the other, but I stress me up for minutes. It's like that and it's time for truth and, on the one hand, want to face it sooner, and, other, want to run. At the moment, clear, I stay.
