virtual tourism: the mirage of the "authentic"

virtual tourism: the mirage of the "authentic"

A reflection on a type of tourism increasingly removed from the essence of travel
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Cancun: life is now

For: It. Vaquerizo and C.C (text and photos)
Because I am sorry, but those of us who write in Vap also do these things. The adventure and the dust is all a farce and in reality we are some beach tourists. But in this damn city-highway drill they have hidden the sea and they don't plan to release it so easily until you loosen a few dollars as a ransom.
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Amira and Michael: Love the trash

For: Maria Ferreira (text and photos)
I spent a day looking for stories in that section of Cairo. It was very hot and the smell of garbage was too intense. When I saw Michael Amira and I took a picture; Amira both smiled and started talking to me like I belonged to that place.
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Anie: Pyramid Circus Lescun

For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)
Our destination is the Anie (2.504 meters), a pyramid of rock unmistakable landscape of the French Pyrenean region, but the first figure that draws our attention is the hegemonic presence of the peak Billare.
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In a strange land, Europe
 
 

The cognac of Miami
For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)

Saying openly that you don't like the US can be cool. Puts you in this egocentric traveling world of social media, where it is presumed to be mud, in the platoon of interesting travelers. Few would think of criticizing a trip to an African town, a village in Nepal or one of those Central American villages where roundabouts are the best tourist attraction. It does, Even if you barely left the hotel you slept in and lock the door when the sun went down (much better if you slept in a tent) everything was fascinating.
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America, Corresponsal en México, A Place in the World
 

of miracles, gulls and coral Samoans
For: Laura Berdejo (Text and photos)

of miracles, gulls and coral Samoans
Jane told me, while he was taking coffee, papayas, toasts, Butter, mangos and bananas was following in hand, that, beyond fales and beaches, of street markets and palm trees that border the sea, in Savaii there was "a miracle" -.
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