Come Knocking Tibet I
China began to dilute as the mountains became steeper. We fled in a jeep, with the anxiety of a fugitive in the open. Gone were the excessive cities or the tourism of towns whose magic is sold in souvenir shops.
A world apart
The documentary A World Apart tells of a trip around the world by car. Your director, Daniel Landa, presents us with reports from all over the planet for Viajes al Pasado.
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Chinese legends and tales
The main square, that hundreds of years ago served as an inn to travelers, it was now full of discos where music crashed with our desire for peace.
Yuanyang, the staggered world
The landscape was a staircase of giants, the rice terraces were broken in green and the old women wore their colors of indigenous pride. We were in Yunnan, the least Chinese of China's provinces.
The landscape that inspired James Cameron in ‘Avatar’
Zhangjiajie Mountains cannot be understood, encompass or pronounce. Only the imagination explains them because this landscape is an invention, a weightless joke from nature, that inspired James Cameron to recreate his impossible world in "Avatar"
Hongcun, the mirror villa
The central plaza is liquid and the sidewalk surrounds a lagoon in which red fish swim, mistaken for the reflection of Chinese lanterns.. It is a round mirror where you look at the stone houses to see that they have barely been affected by the passage of time.
Shanghai: neon lights and karaokes
Shanghai appeared to us messy without deciding where the skyscrapers end and where the smell of the lacquered duck begins. We held the camera crew with a grimace of doubt, looking at buildings stretched up and stunned by the noise of scrap metal at ground level.
The most dangerous road in the world
From there we had record, pray and look down as little as possible, but to place my feet was forced to see how the mountain faded and the ground was so small, so distant, I coming me a silly giggle, own situations of uncontrolled panic.
the steep faith
The Hanging Temple is supported by wooden columns on a wall 75 meters from the ground, in which no sane architect would have thought of building anything habitable. Or maybe it was a genius idea.
Beijing, the marathon
"Un hombre gritaba a su mujer, the customs officers were unfriendly and soon I began to hear the concert of throat clearing and spitting, habitual and incomprehensible practice of the Chinese of all genders and conditions."
bears, flowers, pastry, only, museums and volcanoes
The bear shook the water, centrifuged. It was there, favorite teddy for children, the nightmare for campers and a god for ainus. We saw him behind the security of a fence and we kept going, moving away from Akan lake.
In search of the last ainu
We reached Hokkaido under the sea. A tunnel separates the two most important islands in Japan and a train sneaks between the fish to appear on the other side, north, where common sense starts to turn around.
Following the trail of the samurais
"Mi poca destreza culinaria tuvo que servir de almuerzo a mis compañeros de expedición, that after being forced to record my folly when cutting the noodles, They had, also, Tell them."
Kyoto in the eyes of a geisha
Then Kashia appeared. He wore a traditional light green suit, He wore an ungainly hairstyle, A discreet headdress and the painted face of a white angel color. The serenity of his presence left a wake of silences in his path.
Unexplained Kumano Kodo faith
"Here faith is like a bamboo forest, It sways with the wind, change, it is flexible” The phrase was released casually in less Japanese than the Japanese in the Wakayama region. His name was Brad and he had grown up with the snows of Canada. But his soul was slanted-eyed and his heart entangled in the tangle of creeds we were about to discover..
Hiroshima en el limbo
[st] We moved away from Tokyo to 300 kilometers per hour and we reached Hiroshima after a couple…
Tokyo, anthill
You might think that in a city where reigns the order and reverence as a greeting, discretion is the usual pattern of its inhabitants, but there, just there, the most disconcerting part of the city begins.
Looking for my corner of Scotland
I went to tour Scotland, as one who flees to rain, looking solitudes across Europe. He was hungry for cliffs, whiskey thirst and desire to lose. I, I understand the trip as a shared experience, I decided this time to let go of any company.
Palencia, down the road
[st] At 40ºC below zero, everything was frozen, snow plows, lashes and our adventurous spirit. Were…
Lago General Carrera, Blue between the Andes
I thought I had reached the Caribbean in the middle of the Andes. The water was a indigo blue on, sometimes turquoise and emerald tone in some banks. We move into the lake as one sees light at end of tunnel, almost by inertia, hypnotism plunged a shining water between snow-capped mountains.
Chaos mystical Ulaanbaatar
Mongolia boasts solitudes, steppes that point to nowhere, horizons softly, where no regrets because both desert, simply, no one. It's like a country induced coma for its barren landscapes, a crossing, the echo of the shepherds, do not stop, perhaps not suddenly feel helplessness.
In the shadow of the Torres del Paine
South of the world ends with an outburst. Where the Andes are ending, nature reserves a final festival of stones. We crossed the border of Chile and a farewell because the other side, only vicunas and rheas govern the untamed land of green lakes and mountains impossible.
Zambezi: Eden browse
A canoe enough to traverse fangs. That was the plan, browse the most populous river beasts in the world, paddling between hippos and stealthily approached the buffalo and crocodiles. Africa live at water gives the traveler a sense of harmony tense, the pleasure of the wild.
Medanos de Coro, beaches without the sea
Next to the place where tourists bathe their dreams, nature meets the winds of the sea to form one of the most absurd orographies of Venezuela. It is a tongue of sand that does not reach the coast, that runs out of beaches, a miniature desert, where coconut trees are supposed to rule.
Talkeetna, the town that inspired "Doctor in Alaska"
Much of the Talkeetna activity took place at the motel bar. Every afternoon the neighbors of the town appeared there. They did it on their snowmobiles, looking for maybe the warmth of a fireplace conversation.
