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

Tallin: back to the enchanted city

Back to a place that has captivated has its risks. It's like putting a pulse to the memory. Almost always have to lose. How many great memories, idealized over time, have collapsed by a disappointing return visit?

byRicardo Coarasa

7 November, 2012

The crossing of alcohol in the Baltic

I was surprised to see people with trucks getting on the boat that took us to Tallinn from Helsinki. I thought you had passed away since an anonymous benefactor of mankind invented the trolley. Soon I understood everything.

byRicardo Coarasa

26 Oct., 2012

In a strange land

Ten bridges you cross before dying

From San Francisco to New York. Istanbul to Estonia. From Nepal to Prague. De Jaca to the jungles of Uganda. Ten bridges crossed essential. What are yours?

byRicardo Coarasa

18 Oct., 2012

From Ethiopia to Uganda: trip to the Nile Sources (II)

The descent to the shore is flanked by stands selling souvenirs to tourists. Down country music sounds. From the bars hang banners Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester, of Milan ... The global village has arrived, also, the mythical Nile Sources.

byRicardo Coarasa

4 Oct., 2012

From Ethiopia to Uganda: trip to the Nile Sources (In)

Few places throughout history have so strongly attracted the imagination of geographers, emperors and explorers like Nile Sources. The secret of the birth of the great African river head brought mankind for 2.000 years.

byRicardo Coarasa

27 September, 2012

The Teide walk: my sunrise on the roof of Spain (II)

The first thing you see when you reach the top is a little mouse snaking through the rocks. Few titanic tasks I can imagine that this rodent food every day buscándose 3.717,98 meters.

byRicardo Coarasa

20 September, 2012

The Teide walk: my sunrise on the roof of Spain (In)

Leaving the beach hotel over 30 degrees with a backpack and hiking clothes I feel like in a swimsuit by Navacerrada pasease midwinter.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 September, 2012

The most beautiful mountain lakes in the Pyrenees

From afar, tears of the mountains seem. Closer, their presence is enhanced peaks and surrounded by hills. The ibones, name that is used to refer to the Aragonese Pyrenees mountain lakes, exude peace and are featured in some of the most beautiful postcards of the Pyrenean.

byRicardo Coarasa

9 September, 2012

Pony: Contador waiting

He had an outstanding debt in VAP and now finally gives me the opportunity of paying. Within a week, the Tour of Spain, front with Alberto Contador, Jaca reaches. Now or never. Here are my recommendations for making the most of "the Pearl of the Pyrenees"

byRicardo Coarasa

16 August, 2012

Saudade Road to Lisbon: the trail of Don Sebastian

The boy-king looks at us, sword, from the monumental façade of Rossio train station, in pleno center lisboeta. Few sovereigns have so strongly attracted to the yearnings of a people. Too much responsibility for a child whose interior intrepid Africa echoed the call.

byRicardo Coarasa

26 July, 2012

The Cry of a Spaniard in Puebla

For Spanish is difficult feeling abroad in Mexico. Are demasidos ties which unite us. But if there is a city where it is impossible to intuit stranger is Puebla, probably the most Spanish of Mexican cities. Except when 15 September.

byRicardo Coarasa

6 July, 2012

Kairouan: the holy city of the Maghreb

He had come to Kairouan as almost all those who visit: the race. The fourth holiest city of Islam after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem remains, much to his regret, a crossing. For centuries, the route of the caravans. Now, of the many bus tours full of tourists.

byRicardo Coarasa

28 June, 2012

Lake Tana: the disadvantages of not being Indiana Jones

While the boat looked ragged with which we have to sail on Lake Tana in search of the tomb of Pedro Paez, the Jesuit who discovered the sources of the Blue Nile and who paid with forgetting history, I start thinking that something will turn out well.

byRicardo Coarasa

21 June, 2012

In a strange land

One day in Rome and 63 hours of bus

"¿Están numerados los billetes?". "No lo sé, es mi primer viaje". The answer would have more relevance unless, as in this case, who answered was the driver of the bus that was to take from Madrid to Rome.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 June, 2012

Joy: the island of the nymph Calypso

Who can resist the call of Ulysses? On his return home injured, spent seven long years on the island of Oggigia, retained by the goddess Calypso. He had approached the island of Gozo, the cave of Calypso, the Maltese identify with the place of captivity of Ulysses.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 June, 2012

Ngorongoro: the melancholy of fleeting pleasures (II)

You spend years waiting to get somewhere and, when you finally get it, and starts to hurt you have to leave. Just put one foot in the Ngorongoro, I had several hours ahead and safari, however, already felt the melancholy of the distance, again, would come between us.

byRicardo Coarasa

31 May, 2012

Ngorongoro, the crater of life (In)

The infamous track is increasingly wriggling rears by the greenery of the rainforest. Te where you take hold take hold, the body jumps as if they were centrifuged. The humidity is chewed and sweat is your traveling companion for a while. The jiggling of the road is, however, one of the most joyous I remember discomfort.

byRicardo Coarasa

24 May, 2012

Taxco: by the silver route

Walking uphill on the pavement in the neighborhood of the Castles in the direction of the church of Santa Prisca is a seasoned colonial flavor overdose remains the main hallmark of Taxco: silver

byRicardo Coarasa

17 May, 2012

Beyond the Golden Gate: ruta for San Francisco

It is not always easy to live with icons. They are a perfect postcard that often ruins the perception of the environment, if not diluted. San Francisco is the Golden Gate to the same extent that Moscow is the Kremlin or the Eiffel Tower Paris, but none of these cities runs in myth fueled by tourism catalog.

byRicardo Coarasa

11 May, 2012

Simien: between the bleeding heart baboons

Come to the mountains of Simien, one of the most fascinating places in Africa, in search of Gelada baboons (in Amharic, the local language, "Bleeding hearts"), a species which is found only in these places above Ethiopians 3.000 meters.

byRicardo Coarasa

3 May, 2012

Tlaxcala: forbidden to remember Cortés

In few cities is as revealing a statue of his idiosyncrasies as in Tlaxcala. His ancestors were allied with Cortes to overturn the Aztec hegemony, but the only monument that remembers what happened is a statue of Xicotencatl "Young", the son of the cacique who rebelled against the Conqueror and was hanged for it.

byRicardo Coarasa

19 April, 2012

Lalibela: Black Jerusalem king bee

This marvelous city where look up is to look down, where the land seems to have engulfed the work of man in an angry outburst, steeped in history and myths in equal. Ethiopia, nation among nations, dreamed of one day with an African Jerusalem Christians to save the long pilgrimage to the holy city of David and Solomon. Is the response Lalibela.

byRicardo Coarasa

12 April, 2012

Palm: beats of La Ciutat at dawn

This is usually the visitor who chooses the city, how, the where, the when. On rare occasions, however, the city is what you said, which opens your heart unexpectedly, when not even have time to savor its secrets.

byRicardo Coarasa

5 April, 2012

Masai: the myth vanished tourism

I traveled to Africa for the first time in 2004 forced to ration their backs myths. Among them was not the least the fascination with the Masai, the warlike tribe that had kept at bay the white man until the late nineteenth century.

byRicardo Coarasa

29 March, 2012

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