The end of the world out

Water shipwrecks and violent storms in a corner of the world. Route of brave sailors and threatening cliffs What geographic location is recognized that in the picture? How does the Gold Route of Spanish America? What stories of tragedy and suffering hide those rocks? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome has the keys. The answers, within a week VaP..

byGerardo Bartolomé

23 Oct., 2011

byGerardo Bartolomé

Published Oct. 23, 2011

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