Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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Namibia: Kolmanns- coup, the ghost town of diamonds

City, in the desert, is now a ghostly landscape. The once luxurious homes look like dunes go through doors and windows. The richness of the period in which flourished diamonds has given way to oblivion. There was installed the first x-ray machine in Africa, there was a casino, had air conditioning ...

byJavier Brandoli

21 December, 2010

The «English Court» of the Forbidden City

The soul of a city lurks sometimes capriciously. The traveler may pass by without noticing it and, condemned as being a fugitive stays, wrong conclusions.

byRicardo Coarasa

20 December, 2010

The Grand Canyon bird's eye view

From the heights, Colorado River seems harmless, unable to cause huge erosion, goldsmith patiently, began to light up the Grand Canyon now makes ten million years. We flew over the Nevada desert toward the neighboring Arizona, in the western United States, enjoying one of the most sensational performances of Nature.

byRicardo Coarasa

18 December, 2010

Asia
Nature

Trekking in Annapurna: top, where the world ends

Climb the highest levels of the planet and walk around the slopes of the mountains of Nepal is the story of a serial nature reports that give in VOD. A trek made by ordinary people, they barely knew the high mountain, and approached the limit of his strength and dreams.

byContributors

17 December, 2010

Candanchú: The secret pilgrim hospital

Candanchú hide, only a few meters from the ski slopes, the remains of one of the major hospitals of the Middle Ages pilgrims. In full port Somport, Hospital Santa Cristina goes unnoticed for most skiers.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 December, 2010

Discovering the Sources of the Nile

The encounter with the legendary source of the Nile is an unforgettable experience for any lover of travel. Its calm water, the fishermen with image stitching their networks and throwing the horizon, the morning mist, country music bar, current noise in areas of rapid ... wherever the White Nile was born.

byJavier Brandoli

13 December, 2010

The first encounter with Everest

No matter early in the morning when you're chasing a dream. Today I woke up in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital. Are the six o'clock. Within four hours I get on a plane to Lhasa, across the highest mountain range on earth, Himalaya.

byRicardo Coarasa

8 December, 2010

Scotland: Tour of the wildest castles

The traveler includes a rock that comes from the same sea guts. On top of that mass of stone castle holds a, Dunnottar, demolished and

byJavier Brandoli

7 December, 2010

Kruger Park: the fight to the death between men and lions

After the park opened to tourists stopped killing lions, administrators stunned after finding that the public preferred to watch the cats that the thousands of antelope that raced across the savannah

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2010

Quito: the city built on the ashes of the Incas

The capital of Ecuador is one of the best examples of colonial architecture. Their churches and monasteries, well preserved, give the city a romantic and old. But, Quito was once a great city of the Inca empire. Why there are no remains of the greatest empire that existed in America before the arrival of the Spanish?

byJavier Brandoli

29 November, 2010

And in injury time… came the leopard

There are stories that seem taken from a film script. Followers of this blog know that a few months ago I threw in the towel on the important, most crucial, challenge of seeing the "big five" in Africa: elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo and leopard (take an ironic commentary crucial, although my boat for joy when I saw it was to win the Champions).

byJavier Brandoli

27 November, 2010

Toledo: the secret caves and the Templars

¿How are Toledos? Arabic, the Christian, Jew, you got the miracle that all live together in harmony at a time ... The beautiful Spanish city has the power to reinvent itself each visit. VOD in this report shows the most mysterious and hidden Toledo, the less visible to tourists: the eternal city of the Templars and secret caves.

byJavier Brandoli

25 November, 2010

Gondar: Africa's Camelot

At the foot of the Simien Mountains, Ethiopia holds in its bowels a legacy as valuable as unknown. Who would expect to be confronted by the silhouette of several medieval castles cut in the heart of Africa?

byRicardo Coarasa

19 November, 2010

Vysehrad: the dark and obscure hill in Prague

Outside the monumental center of Prague there is a hill that is buried in the history of the Czech Republic. A cemetery, a church and gardens filled with exciting legends. A place as beautiful and haunting as the great city that was born at his feet. It all starts with the life of the Princess Libuse and pagan prophecy ...

byJavier Brandoli

17 November, 2010

Portugal: two dream homes in the medieval frontier

The charming interior of Portugal, with their people calm and past perennial, hides a story of battles and castles border lookouts. Two lodgings's dream lost in the fields of brand vintage Lusitanian.

byJavier Brandoli

17 November, 2010

The Art Bassel revving

For almost a week, from 4 December, Miami is full of exhibitions, rooms, concerts and events to celebrate the largest art fair in the world. Photography, sculpture, painting, young artists, devoted, critical, much criticism, everything to do.

byRicardo Coarasa

16 November, 2010

Miami sun

Miami Prison: the shadow rental

Miami, wonderful city of excess in all aspects, with his prison could not be less. [st] Text…

byContributors

16 November, 2010

Siresa: Pyrenean landscape of embattled King

There are still villages where you can hear the silence. And Siresa, in the Valle de Hecho in Huesca, the traveler can recognize even the barking of dogs, the footsteps of the locals and the cries of the hinges of the windows that scrutinize visitors.

byRicardo Coarasa

12 November, 2010

How do you say fart in Uganda?

The fun and special experience a unique encounter with mountain gorillas. A South African clumsy got a special time to become a mad trip to the jungle. The encounter with the great apes left a lasting memory.

byJavier Brandoli

10 November, 2010

White Mountains, the sacred country, goodbye

The last two months of travel have been, probably, the most intense. Nepal and its beautiful mountains sacred revealed a pleasure in my nature to know. Top hundred yards without stopping up every day, pointing to an uncertain fate Snow, cold, and the best cards in the world, I generated a mixture of insecurity and joy hard to describe.

byContributors

9 November, 2010

The show of mzungus and the dwarf

There are some stories from the end of my trip to Uganda that should not be forgotten. The bad connections blocked, as I wanted, that blog and travel go hand in hand. Now, from the snowy mountains of Switzerland (What change!!!), I begin to explain the end of what for me has been a fascinating adventure.

byJavier Brandoli

4 November, 2010

Brittany: the way of the customs

A journey through history attached to the wild sea Breton. Red rocks by the water that climbs. A path which passes through the mythical Mont Saint Michel and its abbey full of mystery. Customs officers kicked the coast in search of shipwrecks and pirates.

byJavier Brandoli

27 Oct., 2010

Chott el Jerid: the last refuge of the “desert fox”

The lines postreras the desert war between the Allies and the soldiers of Hitler and Mussolini are written in southern Tunisia 1943. Douz is the starting point for exploring the horizons of white salt lake of Chott el Jerid, the last refuge of Rommel.

byRicardo Coarasa

24 Oct., 2010

In Miami we are the Spain of 20% stop

It is clear that both Cuban, Venezuelan, Colombian, Argentina, Chilean and etc etc it is difficult to…

byRicardo Coarasa

21 Oct., 2010

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