Javier Reverte trips

Javier Reverte tells us about his travels. He is the most important travel writer in Spain and in Viajes al Pasado we have his stories from around the world..

32 articles

The victorious Cairo

Now that we've almost burned and Cairo Midan Tahir Square I remember many times I've walked the city, without doubt one of the most exciting cities in the world and undisputed and indisputable capital of Islamic civilization.

byJavier Reverte

20 January, 2025

Memories of Africa Javier Reverte

The trip is Out of Africa, primarily, a beautiful story, full of magic, which it has the power to excite the traveler and make your experience last forever. A classic that never grow old.

byJavier Reverte

16 November, 2014

Travels with Reverte Africa

Javier Reverte returns to Africa, pero this time tú puedes acompañarle. The master tour travel literature's most iconic places in Uganda and Kenya 27 al of December 6 de enero liderando la ruta "Coloquios en la hoguera".

21 September, 2013

Serengeti: perfection and the “piedrocerontes”

I imagine the man coming to camp, by the fire, and explaining to all that he had seen 654 Rhinos, which are stones that calculation could cross until he returned to his hotel. Who cares? One has the feeling that in the Serengeti one has the right to see what he wants.

byJavier Brandoli

23 July, 2013

Venecia: waiting for Aphrodite (three years of VaP.)

They say that the goddess Venus-Aphrodite rose from the waters of the Mediterranean and the Greeks placed his birth in the southern Peloponnese peninsula. I think they were wrong: the goddess was born here, in Venice, and here it is again swallowed the sea when the waters devour this city born to die of a surfeit of beauty.

byJavier Reverte

12 May, 2013

Japan and the wounds of beauty

Me, Meanwhile ominous, I can think of in Japan, Japan only. And talk about an item on which the newspapers rightly, of course, have not spoken at all in these days: the delicate beauty that holds this country (...).

byJavier Reverte

30 March, 2013

Of Orange Maputo: arenas in Africa

Spain and Portugal, when they were empire, exported language, culture and customs. And among other things, Bullfighting also. The tracks are still alive in several Latin American countries. But the surprise is that there are other traces, in this case dead, in surprising places. Where imagine? For, eg, in Africa.

byJavier Reverte

18 July, 2012

Javier Reverte trips

Again Africa

I have sworn never to travel to Africa and write a line in my life on it. But a few days ago I saw a video, Included on this page VaP., from a trip to South Africa, Malawi and Mozambique, and after reading a text of my namesake great Javier Brandoli, the African bug began to itch again. Why not return?

byJavier Reverte

13 June, 2012

Javier Reverte trips

Javier Reverte: "Africa pulls me over and over again"

VaP. readers interview the master of travel writing on the occasion of the publication of his latest book, "Colinas que arden, lagos de fuego". "África tira una y otra vez de mí. Tengo contraído "el mal de África", una hermosa enfermedad", says the writer.

5 June, 2012

VaP. forward the exclusive new book by Javier Reverte

"Colinas que arden, Fire lakes" goes on sale tomorrow. VaP. now offers its readers a preview of Africa back to the master of travel writing.

byJavier Reverte

23 May, 2012

Javier Reverte trips

Cong: in Innisfree of "The Quiet Man"

There are books that mark the landscape of a region or a city, As with La Mancha, because of Cervantes, with the Dublin, because of Joyce. And there are places where it has left its mark a film.

byJavier Reverte

2 May, 2012

Javier Reverte trips

Dublin: I love Ireland

Ireland is a country that makes you love it, perhaps, is the most romantic of all countries of the earth. And it shows in his two main passions: literature and music.

byJavier Reverte

18 April, 2012

Javier Reverte trips

The nostalgia of the places we do not know

Over the years one coming true, harm than good, mythology that dream and stepping all places that have awakened the nostalgia of the unknown.

byJavier Reverte

21 March, 2012

Javier Reverte trips

Why prefer the freighters to cruise ships

I traveled twice on cruise ships and the two I have promised not. I do not know if a third time picaré. But today there is a way to cross the oceans in a way resembles that of old. I refer to the merchant.

byJavier Reverte

7 March, 2012

Javier Reverte trips

New Bedford: the pulpit from "Moby Dick"

Today New Bedford and the island of Nantukett are two pretty coastal villages where ships dock no longer balleneros.Y, course, traces are the words of Melville in some places.

byJavier Reverte

22 February, 2012

Javier Reverte trips

Javier Reverte returns to Africa in his new book

Javier Reverte returns to Africa. "Colinas que arden, Fire lakes (New travels in Africa)", that will be in bookstores in the first half of May, has two new trips to the African continent from the master of travel writing.

byJavier Reverte

8 February, 2012

Wild flowers on the grave of Selous

I have twice visited the tomb of Selous, in the wooded banks of Beho Beho, an area frequently visited by lions. I like the ritual of visiting the places where the remains of my heroes reference.

byJavier Reverte

1 February, 2012

Javier Reverte trips

The trip, the adventure

What drives us to move when television offers a la carte landscapes from around the world? My answer is very simple: travel driven by the sensuality and the desire for adventure.

byJavier Reverte

19 January, 2012

Javier Reverte trips

Tras la estela de Saint-Exupéry

A few years ago, still in the spirit and psyche remains disrupted by the hell that he had contracted malaria in Brazil two years earlier, I decided to embark on a journey to the coastal desert of southern Morocco, Atlantic shores ranging from Agadir to Tarfaya, the old Cape Juby, where he would be stopping, in their night flights, the plane-mail that pilot and writer who was Antonie de Saint-Exupéry.

byJavier Reverte

24 August, 2011

Javier Reverte trips

Africa and childhood dreams

Who has not dreamed of in childhood to be an explorer and with practicing the profession of white hunter? At least, in my generation was common, when kids played in organizing expeditions of exploration and hunting items in search of big game, usually, course, in an imaginary Africa that we dreamed about desolate fields Navalcarnero, the place where I spent my summers.

byJavier Reverte

13 August, 2011

Javier Reverte trips

American

"Hace un par de semanas publicaba en estas páginas un artículo sobre la América profunda y mis viajes por los Estados Unidos y uno de los amables lectores de VaP comentaba con extrañeza y cierto malhumor: “¿América? But if you only speak of the United States!” (...) The issue has a funny story, más de lo que parece a simple vista".

byJavier Reverte

24 May, 2011

Javier Reverte trips

Winds of youth in Middle America

America is so surprising and fascinating. It looks like all the issues we have elaborated on it and, however, over and over again just for breaking.

byJavier Reverte

26 April, 2011

Javier Reverte trips

Interview: Ithaca

Since last 8 April is in the library's new book, Javier Reverte, "In the wild seas. A trip to the Arctic ". Viajesalpasado.com readers have had the opportunity to submit questions to the master of travel writing. This online interview is the answer to their concerns.

byJavier Reverte

11 April, 2011

Javier Reverte trips

Read a preview of the new book by Javier Reverte

"En mares salvajes. Un viaje al Ártico", the anticipated new travel book writer Javier Reverte, is already in bookstores starting next Friday. Open Mouth, VOD offers an exclusive chapter in the new master work of travel literature.

byJavier Reverte

4 April, 2011

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