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January 24, 2025

❝At 24º north latitude, I headed to the Prophet's Mosque without thinking about where I would enter and crossed the main door...

January 22, 2025

❝At 24º north latitude, I entered Riyadh completely distraught after an endless return trip...

January 9, 2024

❝At 16 degrees north latitude, the spicy taste of that simple kitchen and a penetrating smell of soy became neutral...

February 7th 2023

❝At 27º north latitude, my latest expedition took me to Bardiya National Park, western Nepal...

January 31, 2023

❝At 14º north latitude, finding the village of Buscalan was more difficult than I imagined...

January 25, 2023

❝At 14 degrees north latitude, the heart of Makati, in the Philippine capital, a steel and glass board whose urban planning perpetuates a Spanish-accented street map isolates you...

July 25, 2022

❝At 20 degrees north latitude, I became addicted to mango lassi in Orissa amidst the humidity rising from Bindusagar Lake...

February 21th 2020

❝At 25º north latitude, those ghats were a complete hive of devotees going up and down...

February 18th 2020

❝At 20º north latitude, in the city of Shiva at last, with tropical savannah and Asian cold, but clear...

February 16th 2020

❝At 31º north latitude, entering Amritsar was very hard, but everything fell into place because the city...

February 10th 2020

❝At 27º north latitude, Bhaktapur, the capital of the tastiest yogurt in the world, preserves intact corners, parties and masks...

January 3, 2020

❝At 27º north latitude, today was the festival of the goddess Swaraswati, which is celebrated in the grounds of the Swayambú temple in the Nepalese capital...

December 1th 2019

❝At 26º north latitude, today was the great festival of Vivah Panchami, the wedding of the goddess Sita with Ram in the legendary city of Janakpur...

November 26th 2019

❝At 27º north latitude, and I still don't know how I ended up in a small hotel for mountaineers in a local neighborhood of Kathmandu...

May 12th 2019

❝At 14º north latitude, the Philippine city of Vigan, a world heritage site, in the province of Ilocos del Sur, greets you with its nearly two hundred carriages...

April 28th 2019

❝At 14º north latitude, I thought at first that the godmother was coming to me to give me a monumental anger for taking photos...

April 20th 2019

❝At 14º north latitude, still disoriented, with a sweltering tropical maritime climate, in the middle of a traffic jam, on the way to Mandaluyong...

April 2th 2019

❝At 29º north latitude, afternoon was entering Lhasa. After accommodating the belongings in the hotel I left quickly for the Jokhang...

March 15th 2019

❝At 27º north latitude, in the absence of routine, at this soap opera rhythm, without pause, and now facing the jewels of Vishnu in Budanilkantha...

March 9th 2019

❝At 27 degrees north latitude, a group of Newari girls and their mothers, under a colorful tent in the full sun, rehearse in a makeshift kumari school...

March 5th 2019

❝At 27º north latitude, Mahashivatri day and I was equipped, like when I walk through Pasupatiná, with my safe-conduct like a Marco Polo...

March 2th 2019

❝At 27 degrees north latitude, the goddess Daxinkali didn't wake up as bloodthirsty as I feared. Roosters and goats, their necks severed from their bodies with a slash...

February 10th 2019

❝At 27 degrees north latitude, crossing the border between Nepal and India to reach Sikim by land, you don't imagine a night with a fireplace...

January 15, 2019

❝At 11 degrees north latitude, the monks of the Galila Monastery, two hours by boat from Gorgora, informed of our visit, came to welcome us at the landing stage...

January 11, 2019

❝At 11º north latitude, while the guide spent the last moment of the visit praying in private and I lost sight of him, I wandered around and ended up here...

January 4, 2017

❝At 27º north latitude, the mountain road that heads towards Timbú transports you to a remote land of crows, dragons and phalluses...

December 19th 2016

❝That December 19, 2016, in the direction of Kathmandu, it all began. This web blog too, although the unforeseen...
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