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Ethiopia (II):Forgotten Tomb Pedro Páez

(...) After reaching a plateau, I admire the stunning views. The lake will be about 10 kilometers that extends over a succession of gentle hills and lush fertile in crops, forests and farms. Farmers and cows roam this idyllic horizon. This scenario is the closest thing I've ever seen the Garden of Eden (...) By Miguel Silvestre.

byMiquel Silvestre

12 December, 2011

Ethiopia (In): in search of Spanish who discovered the sources of the Blue Nile

Children are behind the rider meowing "yuiyuiyui"; yui means foreign. All reach out asking for money. The panhandling becomes suffocating. It is certainly worse than in any other African country that has been. As for the legend that throw stones, true. Some of these beggars are children and there are also skillful slingers to be careful.

byMiquel Silvestre

2 December, 2011

On the trail of the Spanish explorers forgotten

With the support of the Spanish Geographical Society, the writer and traveler Miquel Silvestre, contributor to this magazine, begins a motorcycle expedition around the world, to last more than year and a half, on the trail of the Spanish explorers who were strangers to show, how were the sights they saw and how they look now.

byMiquel Silvestre

14 July, 2011

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