Hobatere y Grootberg Lodge, the wildlife viewpoints
Thence, from the lands inhabited by the mud tribes who resisted the desert, men and beasts wake up with the difficult task of surviving.
desert
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Qatar: the opaque realm that matter human
Taste is a rarity in the balloon, a country where the main population of the country is another country, India. One in four people living in Qatar is India. "They are the main population", We Faisal explained by an Indian who accompanies us in the car and nods.
Hell beauty of the Turkana
The Magic caldera of a volcano covered with vegetation and water, warlike tribes of yesteryear, a desert and a lake where there should be no life, an old German who unknowingly commits suicide and a mythical track by passing the great voyages of Africa. The Turkana and its surroundings are not a place over the planet.
Sudan: the world we all dream
Two kilometers later we were in one of those places that you never arrive and when you arrive you never forget. Those ruins of the Meroitic kingdom, continuator of the kingdom of Napata, they seem to have their roots in the desert sands that climb their rocks. Its 2300 years of life turned them into stone, in eagle, tree, lie or maybe in torch.
Medanos de Coro, beaches without the sea
Next to the place where tourists bathe their dreams, nature meets the winds of the sea to form one of the most absurd orographies of Venezuela. It is a tongue of sand that does not reach the coast, that runs out of beaches, a miniature desert, where coconut trees are supposed to rule.
Sudan: a route across the Nubian villages
"Nos dimos cuenta de que en el norte de Sudán hay un pueblo sin tiempo definido, barely sneaks into the destinations of travelers, whose history seems destined to be buried as his temples. But Ahmed opened the doors of his house, forever, unconditionally."
The last nomads of the Sahel II: "School"
One day Malam and Gado's father and uncle decided to open the first Riskoi school project nomadic Sallaga, scarce resources between different clans mustered four months' salary of a teacher and built a roof under which students garrison ten days of rain a year that gives Sahel in Niger.
The last nomads of the Sahel (1): Riskoi
Sometimes you find that you track Aboca shadows, impossible in the past persecution, in every place where I land I seek a reality that vanished fifty years earlier. However I am convinced that no place can ever provoke the same impression that I suffered in those first hours of Tanout spurred by paranoia and fear.
Mongolia: ice under the Empire of the Sun
Countless peaks in the distance are, glaciers and two imposing size just below our ... We are at a point almost treading Mongolian border, but very close to see China, Russia and Kazakhstan, !that last!
Five stories from the deserts of Africa
Since I can only look north and start walking again to walk again on Africa and its deserts. Places where I have not been as Libya, say hides the most beautiful Sahara; Kenya and dry route to Lake Turkana and Sudan and peaceful life overlooking the Nile.
Cabo de Gata: snow, the pastor and the lighthouse keeper
The history of old men who saw snow, a lighthouse keeper at the mist leaves no sleep, a pastor who has never left the park or farmers who depend on a dry swamp. The guts of my favorite place in Spain.
Camel Road Gates Sahara
"Llevamos 4 running days. Not hot, Contrary to what most thought. The light reverberates on mica lining the road, where more than one occasion the rounded forms of the abundant fossils or arrowheads are more unreal the way in which we operate under the slow pace of camels, as in a dream"
A tuc tuc to "escape" from Sudan
I'm tired of waking up with a Sudanese glued to the hump, however sympathetic it. What I want is to get out and leave behind the black hole and all its inhabitants.
A sex shop in the desert
The first image one has of the sex shop is a small bar Roonie, flimsy chairs and hundreds of panties, bras and underwear hanging from the ceiling. On a case there is a trophy that holds a set of lingerie XXL.
Music between sadness
Libya is and will be more than just a crazed dictator who believes he deserves to be King of Kings.…
Namibia: Kolmanns- coup, the ghost town of diamonds
City, in the desert, is now a ghostly landscape. The once luxurious homes look like dunes go through doors and windows. The richness of the period in which flourished diamonds has given way to oblivion. There was installed the first x-ray machine in Africa, there was a casino, had air conditioning ...
The desert of Namibia: mountain refuge
Along with shelter, in the desert and surrounded by mountains, you can contemplate part of the fascinating…
The game of billiards and the Great Fish River Canyon
It was not easy to leave South Africa, Police were playing ball, border risks, and wanted me to pay a fine because I had expired visa. "Call your boss, 'I said, but that makes it clear that I have permission to 15 de septiembre ". The guy must have thought I was going to put heavy and it was easier estamparme the seal and I lost in the desert of Namibia. We leave.
