Acrobat of the Road

                                This is the cover of “HITCH-HIKING IN THE AXIS OF EVIL - BY THUMB THROUGH IRAQ, IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN”, my first book to b...

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Written by Laura Lazzarino   Translated by Laura Rojas Palacio THE FIRST TIME I CAME TO CARTAGENA, I ENTERED IT THROUGH THE BACK DOOR. For me, there was no great impact of an airport ...

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LINKING CHILECITO AND VILLA UNION ON ROUTE 40 IS ONE OF THE PLEASURES OF TRAVELING IN LA RIOJA. As elsewhere in the Northwest, the north-south orientation of ridges and valleys makes west t...

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                                   Translated by Sara Alfonso Domenech and Vanessa Briese Wir, die diese Webseite aufbauen glauben, das Backpacker zu sein mehr bedeu...

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  TRANSLATED BY GOOGLE TRANSLATOR When the invitation arrived for the last BLOGTRIP TO LA RIOJA I could not stop smiling. The SIGHTING OF CONDORS IN THE QUEBRADA DEL CÓNDOR was the first...

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Before My World Tour, in January 2005, I decided to "train" at home. I took a map of Argentina and found a difficult destination. Who knows how many mountains I would need to climb? How many...

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If you are looking for tips to travel to Cusco and Machu Pichu by land, knowing all the Sacred Valley of the Incas, practical information, prices or itineraries, this article will be helpful...

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Why should a true traveler visit Ushuaia at least once in a lifetime? Following a recent INVITATION TO A BLOGTRIP BY THE ARGENTINEAN MINISTRY OF TOURISM the present article focuses on this q...

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WHEN YOU WONDER WHAT TO SEE AND DO IN USHUAIA, THE POSSIBLE ANSWERS GO FAR BEYOND SAILING IN THE BEAGLE CHANNEL AND THE WALKS IN THE TIERRA DEL FUEGO NATIONAL PARK. The Island has a heart di...

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     Primer Puente: un beso sobre un puente, es decir, un puente sobre un puente. (Abril 2010) BUT WHO'S GOING TO KEEP UP WITH SUCH A LIFE? - Was a question that everyone seemed to enj...

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You may ask yourself where on Earth is French Guiana? It's a good start to say it's actually on Earth... When a country needs an introduction, I like it twice. This French overseas departmen...

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WELCOME TO THE SECOND PART OF THIS SERIES OF TWO ARTICLES ON THE ART OF HITCHHIKING. (You can read part one here) Many times people who have never tried to hitchhike ask: What type of vehicl...

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                                   Ya'an, China, 2006. The joy of being far away from everything. This text was first written back in 2002 in order to provide Autostop A...

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TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY ERIC BLAIR - VOLUNTEERS WELCOME! A bicycle could be a modest vehicle, but these scrawny metallic structures, given the right amount of force, can vindicate itself...

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Written by Laura Lazzarino lau_bsas@yahoo.com To follow Laura's blog in Spanish check www.losviajesdenena.blogspot.com Translated by Eric Blair . Despite the fact that hitchhiking was...

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We stayed several days in Falco's place in downtown Quito. Falco is the director of Fine Arts College at Quito University. He has some obsession for Mexican wrestling and a fridge covered wi...

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Our stay in Macas worked as a homey-refill station before hitting the road again towards the Quilotoa region, in the high and cold Equadorian Andes. Just after getting off a 1967 Nissan Patr...

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TRANSLATED BY ERIC BLAIR - MY WORD WIZARD! “Do you all want to try Ayahuasca?”—in Pascual’s proposition there was no sign of taboo. After a week in the jungle we now felt integrated...

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TRANSLATED BY ERIC BLAIR We were getting close to Tsunki, a Shuar community in the Ecuadorian Amazon. When we had everything under control, one of the passengers in the canoe told us that ...

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  Far away from the Santa Cruz de la Sierra downtown, where glamorous cambas show off their lifestyle in Bolivia's cutting edge city and economic capital, other people -mainly internal m...

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  As we hitch-hike around the world we visit schools in oder to share stories of cultural exchange and hospitality. (Learn how to support the project here ) In the Paraguayan Chaco...

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 Our experience in the Paraguayan Mennonite Chaco, quite surprised to find a Hindenburg Avenue in the middle of the harsh enviroment... In the picture, the "Cooperativa". If you are German,...

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“I would invite you to stay at home, but I am poor" – had been Asuncion's statement. The woman on her fifties had met us on board the Luz María. She had presented us fruits as a way to ...

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After visiting remote areas of rural San Pedro Departmen Laura and I headed to Paraguay River, where we embarked on a lazy journey up the river on board the Luz María, an old wooden boat...

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Fighting transgenic seeds is just the first part. Tesai Reka has gone beyond and created CEI (Centro de Educación Integral) where students receive agroecological education. The school has 30...

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