Brazil – Acre, the ancient spirit
Deep in the Amazon, where Brazil juts out into Peru, the Indians still live in harmony with the forest despite deforestation, pervasive agriculture and the massacres. Deep in the Amazon, in the State...
View ArticleThe Rebirth of Pompeii
For the first time restorers worked on 86 of the carefully preserved plaster casts. Victims have been entombed in ash and now plaster for 1,900 years. Restored casts show harrowing agony of...
View ArticleMexico’s Sierra Madre secret canyons
A step back in time, at the bottom of labyrinths of canyons,looking for the movies set of John Wayne, indigenous villages that still hide ancient religious syncretism, mines that seem hellish holes...
View ArticleSan Sebastian – The 2016 European capital of Culture
In 2016, the European Capital of Culture will be Spanish. It will also be Basque. The Spanish will call it San Sebastián, Francophones Saint-Sébastien and the Basques Donostia. Photos and text by...
View ArticleIn search of the world’s precious wools
Dominic Dormeuil travels the world in search of the rarest and most precious wools for the weaving of top-end fabrics. We follow him in his quest meeting with the wool peoples throughout the world,...
View ArticleBelém, porte de l’Amazonie
Cette ville complexe laisse des souvenirs forts : une architecture héritée de la colonisation portugaise mais aussi de son goût pour l’Europe et particulièrement Paris ; l’ile de Marajó, dont les...
View ArticleBadain Jaran – The singing dunes
Erg sprawling and little travelled in the heart of Inner Mongolia, the Badain Jarain shelters the highest dunes in the world, which hiss when trod upon. A pioneering territory riddled with salt lakes,...
View ArticleUnited States – 100 years of wild West parks
In 2016, the U.S. is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. With more than 500 national parks,the inventor of National Parks set a worldwide record. Theholy grail of America’s...
View ArticleEl Chepe – Vertigo in the Sierra
A legendary train that climbs the immense Copper Canyon, the Chihuahua al Pacifico takes the traveler, in the space of a few hours, into a still scarcely populated world. A refuge for cowboys and for...
View ArticleUzbekistan, the pearl of the Silk Road
Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva… those mythical names fire our imagination and evoke the splendor and elegance of the Orient. In the heart of Central Asia, Uzbekistan offers us a beautiful heritage waiting...
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