On the banks of the Parana
If one manages to keep chest and singer creative power that cities with culture and deliver horizons to play, then, frankly, we are filibustering of the time we enter the fantasy intact.
Argentina
Argentina es uno de los lugares más fascinantes de América. Desde las cataratas de Iguazú hasta Ushuaia, Viajes al Pasado te cuenta las historias de Argentina.
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Kazakhstan, Argentina and positive phototaxis
In Argentina a cougar ate an armadillo, I collected his tail and now a kazakh wolf lives in my chest. how do you explain this?
The stone sentinel of the Patagonian steppe
An epic journey across the plains to meet the Patagonian Andes. What do you call this huge stone? On the verge of what river is located? What group of settlers was a reference point on their long journey? The details of history is the writer and traveler <strong>Gerardo Bartolomé</strong>. The next weekend, and VAP.
Monte Darwin: El Desquite Shipton
Shipton fell into a deep depression over losing the mountain to which he had prepared all his life: el Everest. He decided to be the person who had conquered mountains, the largest number 1 history. There were many virgin peaks in the northern hemisphere, so we laid eyes on the ice fields between Argentina and Chile. There were dozens of unexplored mountains.
The Everest climber overcome by
He dreamed, like so many other climbers of the time, to become the first man to tread the summit of Everest, but the glory was elusive. Sorry, heart rumbo a la Patagonia. Other peaks waiting to be conquered virgin. What is the name of the British explorer and mountaineer image? What feats he starred in southern lands? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome will tell the story in next week VaP..
Santa Cruz River: the wake of Fitz Roy
"A row which is the curve!”, I shouted to my comrades and eagerly returned to take the boat to the middle of the river. "How much we?"I asked one of them. I surprised GPS, separated us only ten minutes by boat from the enigmatic Basalt Glen Fitz Roy.
“Patagonia a sanfre Fria”, Gerardo Bartolomé
Sentence: "Patagonia can surprise you at any time"
The river of deception
Where in Southern Patagonia was beached the boat of an old engraving? What intrepid sailor took advantage of this estuary to repair your boat and, passing, explore the river in search of an Andean lake that never saw? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome made the same route. He did manage to see the lake. I will in a week in VaP..
The bird island and killing of the Spanish
He ended the day and ended our visit to the Peninsula Valdes. Before we left we decided to stop in front of the Bird Island to catch the last rays of sun and take pictures of the chapel there remembers an old Spanish settlement. By Gerardo BARTHOLOMEW.
The chapel stained with blood
What reminds this old Spanish settlement lonely chapel? These walls evoke a meeting, or collision, between the old and new worlds in a remote colonial settlement. Now become prime tourist destination, el lugar guarda una historia de supervivencia que nos contará el próximo fin de semana el escritor y colaborador de VaP Gerardo Bartolomé en su blog "Desde la Patagonia".
The enigma of extinct species
An animal species extinct for thousands of years. A surprising finding in the cave of the picture and a question. "They survived some copies of these large mammals until today?
What do you call that cave and what a wonderful discovery was made in it? What does it say about Patagonia ago 10.000 years? The answers have a contributing writer Gerardo Bartolomé VOD. Within a week, en su blog "Desde la Patagonia".
When progress is traveling with a knife between his teeth
In the name of progress have been committed many atrocities, with the disinherited and Nature as the main victims. Also in Patagonia. On the brink of what legendary route these hills are monitored by the moon? What danger lurks in this remote southern region? El escritor y viajero Gerardo Bartolomé desvelará las claves el próximo domingo en su blog "Desde la Patagonia".
Paso de los Pehuenes: the route of the raids
The truck moved slowly along the way but every time there was more snow. Already reached mid wheel. My wife, with GPS, I said that there was still climbing 300 meters to reach the top step (port, as they say in Spain). "Three hundred meters is a lot," I thought.
The terrible snow-capped volcano in Patagonia
What mountain is at the bottom of the picture? What is this mountain pass? What there were trafficked during the nineteenth century? The writer and traveler Gerardo Bartolomé has the answers. Next Sunday, another fascinating story about the Patagonia in the hand of a great storyteller.
Where is the lake of floating stones?
Where is this picture and what was causing erosion at the base?
How can the response be linked to the delimitation of the boundary between Argentina and Chile? Rivers change course, disputed sovereignty, patriotic antics. The writer and traveler Gerardo Bartolomé surprise us again, within a week, histories and landscapes of Patagonia.
El Carmen: the fire and blood battle between Brazil and Argentina
El Carmen I came to looking for a sacred tree of the indigenous, "El Algarrobo Gualichu". The chronicles speak of it dating 1833, when the strongman of Argentina, Rosas, carried out a campaign against the Indians. The only vintage image I found the town was one of a French traveler, Alcide D'Orbigny.
Where does this gun pointing?
What protects this ancient canyon city? Who might be the enemies of those who had to defend? A track: this place claims to prop up the oldest building in Patagonia.
Wulaia: Fitz Roy Indians
We were in the ship's stern, with our life jackets and very warm, ready to embark on the boats. "We follow you, we get us a picture of the little Indians. "he said smiling Mrs. Chilean. "What pressure!"I thought. By Gerardo BARTHOLOMEW.
La Caleta colony sacked
[st] What's the story behind this ancient engraving? What is the artist known explorer of this scene?…
Staten Island: the lighthouse at the end of the world
If there is a place in Patagonia, we can still consider unattainable, that is the Staten Island. This is nothing more nor less than the last link in the Andes, which flows into the Atlantic succumbing their impious Wuthering Heights in the Atlantic waves driven by winds Antarctic.
The island of desolation
[st] Wrote a famous traveler: "On the horizon, the clouds, se delineaba esta montañosa e inclemente isla……
Perito Moreno: Glacier lies
We were in front of the Perito Moreno glacier, undoubtedly the most amazing glacier world. This is a huge tongue of ice two miles wide coming down from the ice fields on the southern Andes, Lago Argentino cutting as it would have dreamed of escaping from Egypt Moses.
The cracking of the Perito Moreno
In honor of this surprising and interesting blog that is writing our friend Gerardo Bartolomé “from Patagonia”,…
What secret behind this old photo?
It is the glacier glacier. Tens of thousands of visitors each year admire. But the imposing mass of ice contains a handful of clichés and lies In what era is this photo? What lies save this famous glacier in Patagonia?
