Cultures and landscapes of the world
Talks
Rapa Nui, shrouded in mystery
Easter Island provokes, even today, exciting questions. A set of questions that makes the Rapanui people and its territory a unique place on Earth, an exceptional open-air Human Being museum, in the most isolated inhabited place in the world.
Libya, the enchantment of the desert
A trip across the Acacus desert between sand seas and loneliness into an immensity that causes the collapse of the senses. The Acacus desert presents the most delirious landscapes of the Great Sahara and its spell represents the call of a fascinating adventure. Libya has been, and in part, it is still the best-kept secret of North Africa.
Eastern India: Odisha and Kolkata
Odisha, formerly Orissa, is a holiday destination very estimated by the Indians. The Tropic, with its singular beaches, explodes into hundreds of colours and fragrances that flood this world mostly rural.
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, is an enormous and noisy city with fifteen million people, the second largest Indian city. Away from the principal tourist circuits, it continues to be unknown to the public, although it has held a reputation of cultural and intellectual city.
Northeastern Brazil: the black heart
Northeast is Brazil’s African soul where black culture carries more weight than indigenous culture. The Brazilian carefree attitude for the more immediate future, the pleasure of life above everything. In this network of dunes, long beaches, neighbourhoods, churches and convents catalogued as colonial heritage, Brazil is a turbulent giant that today knows to share its dear ecstasy.
Colombia, contrast of colours
Colombia is the fourth largest country in South America with a formidable diversity that makes it different with its jungles, beaches, mountainous landscapes, colonial cities, archaeological sites and much more. This says to me that behind the Colombian crime news we often see in newspaper headlines, there is a magic land, which is well worth a visit.
The Solomon Islands, the last frontier of the South Pacific Ocean
The Solomon Islands are a true tropical paradise, a preserved nature, charming people and an exceptional seafloor, which is among the most beautiful on the planet. For two centuries, these islands feed the dreams of romantic souls with a culture slightly altered throughout its history, enjoying without complexes of the sun and sea, indifferent to the hustle and bustle of the outside world.
Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia
Sumatra, the diversity of Indonesian landscapes Palawan, the last frontier of the Philippines
We will start the trip in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, to continue for Indonesia’s biggest island, Sumatra, where we can emphasize the Gunung Leuser National Park, with its amazing orangutans. Then, we will continue our journey towards Banda Aceh, a city immersed by a tsunami in a heavy sea of mud, and finally, we will discover the Lake Toba, the true heart of Batak culture.
The last stop will take us to Palawan Island, which will seduce us for its many virgin landscapes with lonely tropical beaches and mysterious lagoons, and especially by the smiles in the deep eyes of the people.
Rituals and ceremonies of Papua New Guinea, the last unknown territory
In the mountains of Highlands, inside Papua New Guinea, takes place one of the most spectacular tribal rituals on the planet: the Sing Sing Festival in Goroka, where a large number of ethnic groups arrive from all the corners of the country to show their different cultures through the dances, music, and what is most symptomatic, the ornaments that adorn their bodies along with their gorgeous makeup. We will continue our trip to the east islands of Papua New Guinea: New Britain, New Ireland and the Trobriands, enjoying remote places surrounded by humble families, with no electricity, in absolute disconnection from the world.
Madagascar, the red island of the Indian Ocean
In Madagascar, because of its isolation, hundreds of endemic species have found its space there. Among these ones, the Malagasy symbol: the lemur. But the country is also a mosaic of unique landscapes, with specific mention to the baobabs, the idyllic beaches and its people, an Afro-Asian population who has developed its own culture, the maximum expression of which is an important ritual related to ancestor worship.
Socotra, a forgotten paradise in the Indian Ocean
Socotra is formed by an archipelago of four islands in the Indian Ocean, located about 350 kilometers from the coast of the Arabian Peninsula. There, one breathes an ancestral and prehistoric essence that makes it magical due to its eternal isolation, the result of which has been the growth of a kind of flora and fauna that we rarely see anywhere else on the planet. The island is nicer than I could have ever even imagined, allowing me to step into a primitive, powerful, and different land.
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