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Mongolia: the green desert of the Gobi

I don't want any more canned food and I go to a ger, typical Mongolian house, Round, covered with tarpaulins and insulated with filter (sheep hair). Inside there are two girls, the older brother and the mother. I put my hand to my mouth to indicate that I want to eat

byAlicia Sornosa

16 Oct., 2014

The boy who saved me from the rain

The trip by Ethiopia motorcycle was being the opposite of what I had imagined. Instead of finding the desert, refugee camps, children with swollen tummies by hunger and high poverty, I found myself in a country of high mountains and green.

byAlicia Sornosa

26 August, 2014

Chiquitanía, the case of the toad woman

What I saw scared me, I saw a giant toad that jumped out. I also, in shorts I got on the horse and got out of there, I didn't stop spurring until I got home. My wife was horrified, I didn't recognize how old I was.

byAlicia Sornosa

26 February, 2014

The President and the bell of the Admiral Graf Spee

Tarija, a region of the south west of Bolivia, called the “Bolivian Andalusia”, a land of flowers, Vineyards, palms, willows and with a huge river called Guadalquivir, It has not stopped surprising me even when I left.

byAlicia Sornosa

29 January, 2014

Kenya: the hard road barefoot lost shepherd

In a long line filled with coarse gravel divisive and two shadows in the distance. Two hikers. When I'm close to them I say something (...) In perfect English one, the youngest, turns to me and asked if this road I saw a man without shoes. By Miguel Silvestre.

byMiquel Silvestre

27 December, 2011

In the footsteps of a true explorer

Brake, I turn around and see that your bike is on the ground. No movement. It rises. It beckons me. Scares me to see, tail and sped back. I shouted his name if I can hear. By Miguel Silvestre.

byMiquel Silvestre

19 December, 2011

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"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
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alicia Sornosa

Mongolia: the green desert of the Gobi

The boy who saved me from the rain

Chiquitanía, the case of the toad woman

The President and the bell of the Admiral Graf Spee

Kenya: the hard road barefoot lost shepherd

In the footsteps of a true explorer