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WALL STREET MAYA - Guatemala
Archaeologists working deep in the jungle of highland Guatemala have uncovered the remains of an enormous Maya palace built nearly 1,300 years ago. Found at the site of Cancuén, which means "Place of Serpents," on the Río Pasion in the Petén region, the three-story palace covers some 270,000 square feet has...
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SHARK FOR SALE - Mexico
A few people know Holbox, a small strip of land a few kilometers away from Yucatan northern coast. It is one of the most shark-populated, Mexican waters; there are here bull, tiger and hammer shark and, in Summertime, also the huge, but harmless wheel shark. Shark are fished with palamiti, long ropes...
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THE NEVERENDING HOUSE - Mexico
Sir Edwards James was an eccentric, noble English man, a friend and Maecenas of joung Salvador Dalì and Picasso and the director of the legendary Surrealist review Minotaure. One day he arrived at Xilitla, a wet and lost village in the west of Mexico, and lived there for more than twenty years. He was bathing in a crystalline stream’s pond, in the middle of the jungle when all in a sudden...
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FLYING CONCRETE - Mexico
There is a multicolour villa twenty kilometers away from the cosmopolitan San Miguel de Allende, one of Mexican tourists’ favourite places. It was built in the middle of a barren area studded with thorny mezquite trees and nopales cactus. The house, planned by an Idaho, unknown autodidact designer, is a mixture between Gaudì’s architecture and a Walt Disney park: it looks like the designer...
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MEXICO’S LAST TRAIN - Mexico
Barranca del Cobre, or the Copper Canyon, lays in the north of Mexico, between the states of Chihuahua and Sinaloa. It is just one of the twenty canyons of the rough Sierra Tarahumara, an area populated by the homonymous, native society. They are one of the Maya groups that have better preserved their original culture. The 1500 meters high cleft, create a huge canyon whose gorges made by 6 rivers are 4 times bigger...
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TARAHUMARA - Mexico
The Tarahumara peoples live in the remote regions of the Sierra Madre in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. They are also called Raramuri (Ones that run) - they are renowned world wide for their superb physical ability to run long distances. They are known to pursue deer until the deer drops from exhaustion. Geographically, their territory, before the Spanish came, consisted of the Sierra Madre, extending south to...
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EL CAMINO DE SANTIAGO - Spain
An extraordinary 900 kilometers trip on foot, from Saint Jean Pied de Port, France, to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and then to the ocean of Finisterre...
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ITALIAN CRUISE SHIPS - Italy
Pherhaps it is not well known that the majority of cruise ships are built in Italy. Huge boats that plough the oceans' waves, transatlantics that can comfortably carry thousands of passengers: they are means of transport, but true, floating mega-hotels at the same time. They host numerous restourants, casinos, swimming-pools, theaters and discos. Their hulls are as long as three football grounds put together...
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THE LAST TONNARA- Italy
See also: Egadi Islands, the largest Italian sea reserve.
In Sicilian last tonnare, the ancient mattanza rite, a traditional tuna-fishing technique, still exists. Every year at the end of springtime huge tuna migrate from the Atlantic ocean to the warmer Mediterranean waters. These fish can reach the weight of 400 kilos and they are captured and loaded on board of the boats...
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MAD ABOUT VOLCANOES -Italy
To hear the thunder of a volcanic explosion is an unforgettable emotion, such as the vision of thousands of magma fragments that, flying hundreds of meters high, cross the deep blue sky. It is wild and ancestral force, an emotion that arises from something deeply buried into us. It is something volcanologists (those who study volcanoes as a job) know very well, but it is even better known by those who...
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ETNA'S ERUPTIONS - Italy
On 26th october 2002, after 15 months of small activity, Etna erupted again. New fractures opened both on the north slope, threatening Linguaglossa small town, and on the south flank, in an area already involved by the previous eruption. Ash covered the main part of east Sicily...
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MNAM beats MOMA - Centre Pompidou - France
The Pompidou Center, better known as Beaubourg, after 28 years from its construction, is still one of Paris most touristic places and one of the world most visited museums.
After the recent modernizaton for the new millenium, the MNAM (Musée National d'Art Moderne) de Paris has become even larger than New York Modern Art Museum (MoMA), its eternal rival.
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CARIBBEAN LONDON - Notting Hill Carnival - Great Britain
Every year since 1966, during the last week-end of august, London holds the hugest Carnival after Rio de Janeiro. People from everywhere in the world meet in Notting Hill to see the 'mas' (masquerade) bands parade, dance and play in their amazing Caribbean costumes; the festivity was started by the West Indian immigrants to become a real Caraibbean carnival. Traditional food and drinks are cooked in...
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THE GIRLS' ISLAND - Madagascar
In Nosy Be - a little paradise of palms and white seaside in the north of Madagascar- as much as in Cuba, a lot of men go in search of sex and sometimes love. One could easily give it the dreary name of sexual tourism taking place in one of the poorest countries in the world: on one side misery and need, on the other money and presents which will fulfill the desire of an exotic adventure...
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THE OUTCASTS' MADONNA - Italy
They run and cry, they prey and scream, they crawl, implore, curse, get on their knees and go towards the altar. Once there, before the merciful Madonna of the Arco, their agitated and dramatic pilgrimage culminates. Every year, on the Mondays after Easter, it reunites a huge and thick crowd of devotees who walk barefoot along an ancient itinerary of pain that ends at Saint Mary of the Arco's sanctuary...
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POOR PRECIOUS STONES - Madagascar
They dig deep and narrow holes in the middle of the forest, and go into them at the only light of one candle, without ropes or ladders. The sapphire seekers of Anarana, north of Madagascar, spoiled by brokers and merchants of precious stones, paced by the police, risk their life everyday, often for the equivalent of a couple of dollars. There are no authorisations and the thousands of them work completely illegally...
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A PASSAGE TO INDIA - France
Every year early in September, in the Ganesh Temple of Paris, located at 72, rue Philippe de Girard, in the 18th district, is organized the birthday celebration of the most popular and beloved hindu God. It is the Ganesha Chaturthi. In Paris a chariot, wonderfully adorned with thousands flowers, welcomes the magnificent Ganesh image made of golden bronze, which usually abides in the temple. A second chariot welcomes...
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ELEPHANTS IN GERMANY- The Elefanten Treffen
It is the most famous winter motor-bike gathering since 1956 when a German journalist (Ernst Leverkus) had the idea of reuniting all the Zündapp KS 601, whose nickname was "Grüner Elefant" (Green Elephant), to know how many of them were riding over Germany. They would all meet near Stuttgart for the first years, and from Nürburing to Salzburgring, at the end decided that their meeting place was going...
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PEACE! - Italy
On Saturday the 15th of February the Peace Mobilization against the war in Iraq was held in Rome. As well as in the rest of Europe. Thousands of people flooded out all over the streets of Rome, all with their rainbow flags for peace in the big mobilization organized by the European Social Forum. Srudents, families, seniors and several associations took part to the ten-kilometres long march. Together they...
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