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The Mennonites of Bolivia Trying to keep safe their traditions, Mennonites don't hesitate to leave everything and start from scratch in another country. In Bolivia they have found enough isolation to develop their lifestyle in a very original way. |
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In search of our stolen skies Light pollution has stolen the night sky in most of the places where we live. This story shows some of the last places where is still possible to see this wonder once accesible for everyone almost everywhere. |
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Gold seekers of Tierra del Fuego When the first signs of gold where discovered in Sierra del Boquerón, back in 1879, a small gold rush started in Tierra del Fuego. After few decades the mechanized exploitations surrendered to the lack of profitability and left the area to the independent gold seekers. This is the story of Jorge Gesell, one of the five last loners who still seeks for the precious metal. |
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Buddhist novices According to Theravada Buddhism, spending some time in a monastery is essential to reach enlightenment. In Laos and some other countries of Sotheast Asia is very common for young boys to spend few months, or even years, as novices. This is the story of some of those boys. |
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Altiplano's extreme environments In the desolated Southamerican high plateau, between Chile and Bolivia, nature creates some unique and extreme environments with volcanoes and coloured lagoons where life has to find its way. |
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The last iceman of Chimborazo Baltasar Ushca, is the last man extracting ice from the frozen high slopes of Chimborazo, the highest Andean volcano. The blocks of ice, wrapped in grass to keep them from melting, travel in the back of two donkeys to market. A living piece of history. |
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Grape harvest on lava flows (Açores islands) Every September in the island of Pico the grape harvest takes place on the volcano's lava flows. The ancient constructions using basalt blocks prevent the use of machinery, so all the work must be done the old way. In Criação Velha this way of work is specially well preserved. |
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Patagonia From Península Valdés to Ushuaia and from Punta Arenas to Puerto Montt, Argentinian and Chilean Patagonia exhibits an astonishing intact nature splashed with small villages of authentic character. |
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The Azores islands (Açores - Portugal) Nine islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. |
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Quiet villages of the Colombian Andes . |
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Lisboa (soon available) |
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Southeast Asia (soon available) |
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Southamerica (soon available) |
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Western Europe (soon available) |
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