ricardo Coarasa

Ricardo Coarasa is one of the Founders of Travel to the past. Journalist with archaeologist vocation, A detective in history, An Ethiopia dream counter to Mexico.

178 articles

The last troglodytes Matmata

Where the gaze is lost in the tyranny of the desert, in the stony plains preceding the Sahara, Berbers recent cling to their caves dug into the earth with the nostalgia of those who know that their traditions will eventually be swept away by the sands of the desert.

Praise of confusion

The bewilderment of a new city that turns you into a stranger, or a landscape you never thought to be a part of, unravel the puzzle of who you are (actually, what you think you are) At the same time, it distorts preconceived ideas and places you in front of a mirror in which it is not certain that what you see reflected will please you..

Paris: rich man, poor man

We stand in Paris with our joints about to go on strike and without a place to spend the night, leaky pockets and a backpack full of sandwiches so you don't have to buy food for five days. We were what is now called quality tourism.

13 photos 2013

With 2103 Body still present I want to dig in photographs that left me this year is already gone before unfaithful be interested in 2014. meeting trains, mountains, bed sheets, cities suspended over water, beaches without towels, lagoons, hermitages, landscapes that left me speechless ...

Fort Jesus: Matatu the rap

The walk through the Old Town between narrow alleys, chipped buildings, smell of nitrate and palm groves and bougainvilleas is a must exercise of imagination: fantasize about what this old neighborhood could be shortly after investing some money in its rehabilitation.

Tsavo: Elephants Warhol

Enter a national park and the first thing you find to be elephants red is like arriving five minutes late to a game of your favorite team and see on the scoreboard already wins 3-0. From there, It is very difficult to keep the bar.

Amboseli: Revenge of the Kilimanjaro

Amboseli has a gift. Waking up every day in the lap of Kilimanjaro, the roof of Africa, is the gift that nature has blessed you. A gift and a paradox. It is curious that the main attraction of the second most visited park in Kenya, after the renowned Masai Mara, you get up in the land of Tanzania, the neighboring country.

Vasa: the redemption of a fiasco

I have always been more interested in the trail that a defeat leaves than that of a triumph.. A loser has more backrooms and is lavish in edges. Therefore, the story of a ship launched with salutes of honor that sinks on its first voyage, without even leaving the port, it aroused sympathy in me.

Market: the feast of fish

The place was bustling with people. The sun was out and the market was a party in a city in need of light. Helsinki is preparing for the winter reconnect with the days of just seven hours of light. Therefore, every sunny day is like a parting of two lovers facing imminent separation. The Sunday revelry can not hide that resignation to the inevitable.

Monks Peak: the viewpoint of the Midi d'Ossau

The ski resorts in summer mourn the absence of snow. Its landscape is equally beautiful, but without the white winter the ski lifts, tows and artificial snowmaking cannons are grotesque, as resigned to the lethargy of the summer months. But, for the mountaineer, are always a starting point to walk to nearby peaks.

Ricardo Coarasa, at the Book Fair

VAP, again at the Madrid Book Fair. Ricardo Coarasa sign this Sunday morning (the 11:00 a 13:30 hours) copies of his latest book, "Viaje a las fuentes del Nilo Azul", in the doghouse 283, World publisher of Black
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