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Diomedes: The Island at the world

Little Diomede Island has a habit of punishing the visiting, is usually a bad mood, with twisted gesture on ice, polar winds puffing claiming his desire to be alone, lost to follow one of the corners of the world.

byDaniel Landa

18 September, 2025

Diomedes: Island doomsday

The Small Island of Diomedes is the previous step to going to the Moon.

byDaniel Landa

14 January, 2025

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.

byDaniel Landa

10 March, 2014

Denali, the icy maze

As soon as we reached the town of Talkeetna, we had the feeling that the entire town was following our steps with whispers.. The arrival of some foreigners by car from southern Alaska would not have anything particular during the summer months, but in the middle of winter, That was certainly a novelty..

byDaniel Landa

3 March, 2014

The road

I am enchanted by these lines across landscapes and city noises. Are traveler's blood, what gives life to the you're looking for and confuses the already was lost. I'm attracted to roads that do not go anywhere, sometimes because my place is the road itself.

byDaniel Landa

9 September, 2013

Canada: the conductor for the drunken nights

The circumnavigation of the globe on two wheels has been done many times and many more will. As experience is of the most intense I know, but as literary enterprise is seen as something, maybe even too. Currently we run the risk of tiring trivialized and reaches saturation to force travelers embark on the road with the sole purpose of having their experiences in social networks to become famous or have followers.

byMiquel Silvestre

26 February, 2013

Alaska: encounter with a bear

It can be wild beasts, Paramilitary the terrible storms truenos the arena, But not me who shoots. I'm not there. I have actually disappeared from the scene and is like nothing could touch me except the thrill of meeting just two days' journey from Valdez after a year on the road.

byMiquel Silvestre

4 January, 2013

Books

«Towards wild routes», Jon Krakauer

Sentence: “No hay nada más perjudicial para el espíritu aventurero que la idea de un futuro estable".

byRicardo Coarasa

5 August, 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

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