Navajo nation, USA

The Navajo Nation Lands


Horseshoe Bend
Teenagers lurk in the depths of Horseshoe Bend, a whimsical meander of the Colorado River outside Page.
Settlers & Settlers
US and Navajo Nation flags wave near the Navajo Bridge.
Colonization Veins
Roads run along the reddish expanse of the Colorado Plateau.
Entering Navajo Reservation
Sign at the entrance to Navajo Bridge marks entry into Navajo Nation territory.
Navajo Bridge
Navajo Bridge's steel spans that span the canyon as the Colorado River flows into Marble Canyon.
ahead of the rain
Mobile home RV (Recreation Vehicle) moves away from a front of damp air.
Colorado River
Colorado River flows through a deep gorge along the Navajo Bridge.
Marina with pine cone
Hundreds of pleasure boats docked at the Wahweap marina near Page.
Live Elevated
Outdoor welcomes those entering the state of Utah, north of Arizona.
the one in the desert
Transit beats an S on one of the roads that runs through Marble Canyon.
Marble Canyon
Cars traverse a valley between Marble Canyon's colorful slopes.
Multi-Destinations
Road indicators at a Marble Canyon intersection.
Lake Powell
Rainbow adds color to the eccentric setting of Lake Powell, next to Page.
TIR
Truck approaches Kayenta under a strong wind.
Navajo
Navajo native to one of Monument Valley's iconic formations.
From Kayenta to Page, passing through Marble Canyon, we explore the southern Colorado Plateau. Dramatic and desert, the scenery of this indigenous domain, cut out in Arizona, reveals itself to be splendid.

A powerful wind lashes the desert and, as is supposed in these North American confines, sweeps rolling bushes back and forth along Highway 89's endless straights.

But neither the sandstorm nor the tumbleweeds unwary disturbam the sovereign trajectory of the classic Buick Le Saber we were driving in cruise control, there are already thousands of kilometers.

They separated us 160 km from Page. We covered the distance in three hours with a strategic stop at the Navajo National Monument to admire the ancient Indian village of Betatkin, sheltered under a huge hollow cliff, in the image of Colorado's neighbor Mesa Verde.

Arrived at the destination, we settle in and recover from some accumulated road fatigue.

Page: a Desert Denial

Clumsy and makeshift, Page is the gateway to the second-largest water reservoir in the US, augmented in 1963 by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam that capitalized on the immense flow of Lake Powell.

Marina with pine cone

Hundreds of pleasure boats docked at the Wahweap marina near Page.

This one appears like a gigantic mirage of blue, nestled in the desolate vastness around it. The privilege of its vision and the fun it provides attracts travelers from neighboring states but also a little from the rest of the country and the world. But it was work and not play that gave rise to Page.

The work proved to be long and exhaustive. It required the permanent effort of thousands of migrated workers. The houses assigned to them and the businesses that followed, eventually formed the city.

The dam's future seems doomed by a prolonged drought that, since 1999, has shrunk the reservoir to half its capacity, exposing petroglyphs, arches, caves, dinosaur footprints and other previously submerged attractions.

But even shrunk, the lake retains a strong charm, reinforced by many of its 3200 km of coastline bordering the mystic Utah, which we ended up making the occasional brief foray.

Live Elevated

Outdoor welcomes those entering the state of Utah, north of Arizona.

Sometimes on the way out, sometimes on the way back, we find high points that reveal an almost marine vastness and the hundreds of houseboats lined up in the Wahweap marina, anchored until the arrival of the holidays and the owners' families.

We wonder if, at the rate at which water is consumed by thirsty cities like Phoenix, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the vessels will soon be dry docking.

Back in Arizona, we detour to the eccentric Horseshoe Bend of the Colorado River.

Colorado River

Colorado River flows through a deep gorge along the Navajo Bridge.

There, some visitors are afraid to reach the high bank and exchange muffled shouts: "Don't take any more chances, Kerbie, this whirlwind is the worst!" Just two more steps, Will. Two steps and we should already have a view”.

It didn't take us long to understand why the commotion. Despite being held to the surface by the heights that rise from the desert, the wind rose from the deep gorge of the river with inordinate force and provoked violent gusts and eddies.

We redouble our care.

One, more retiring, is holding his feet than he comes forward, while this one, lying on the rock, faces the worst of the vortex but has the privilege of looking down and contemplating the perfect horseshoe carved by river erosion with more than 300 meters of depth.

Horseshoe Bend

Teenagers lurk in the depths of Horseshoe Bend, a whimsical meander of the Colorado River outside Page.

We survived the stunt and left some teenage disciples to follow suit. When we get back to the car, it occurs to us whether we would not have inspired a tragedy.

We progress into southern Arizona parallel to the tight bed of Little Colorado and notice that the entire region is being invaded by a cold front pushed by clouds of increasingly dark blue.

As we drive towards Marble Canyon, the temperature follows the steep drop.

Marble Canyon

Cars traverse a valley between Marble Canyon's colorful slopes.

Even out of season, we are treated to a surprise snowfall that reduces visibility to almost nothing but, as the cold is not enough at ground level, it never gets to paint the landscape in white.

Colorado is now facing us. We cross it first on foot, contemplating its flooded canyon and then in the car, through one of the two arms of the Navajo Bridge and back to the starting point.

Navajo Bridge

Navajo Bridge's steel spans that span the canyon as the Colorado River flows into Marble Canyon.

A scenic flight over the great Colorado Plateau awaited us on Page.

In the Navajo Skies of Arizona

At 7:45 the next morning, we are already at the airport. We are told that the wind has dropped and is staying within the limits where Westwind Air Service usually flies. We receive the information with an inevitable distrust that only increases when we see a teenage-looking female pilot sitting in the cockpit.

Experienced for her age, Jerrine Harrel has little to fear. In the hyper-confident American manner, he greets the passengers with a wide smile, hands us the briefing of security and lifts the small plane to the again crystal clear skies of Arizona: “Ladies and gentlemen, believe what I tell you.

You'll never forget these views again.”

Colonization Veins

Roads run along the reddish expanse of the Colorado Plateau.

Same, beforehand, we agree without reservation. So soon we wouldn't have another opportunity to photograph a terrestrial surface like that from the air. Thus, we abstract from the abrupt jumps that the aircraft takes and cause the machines to fire probably too many times.

We flew over the heart of gigantic Lake Powell where we discovered unthinkable nooks and crannies. We climb over Page and soar over the crimson expanse of the Colorado Highlands, carved out of prehistory.

We see sedimentary hills and plateaus lost in nothingness, branching courses of extinct rivers, stone arches, rock needles projecting from the ground and sharp hills. In between, also an improbable village or two somewhere between two and thirty or forty rusty trailers, given over to aridity and rattlesnakes.

To the east, the eroded surface locks us in with a surprising concentration of other exuberant geological sculptures. We suspect that we are over the Monument Valley and the pilot's narration confirms it. Jerrine makes the plane circle the area twice. The uniqueness of the landscape is illusory.

Downstairs, the Navajo Nation remains in the hands of its embattled natives.

From Alaskan Tundra to US Integration

The Athabaskan tribes that gave rise to the Navajo are believed to have migrated to the southwestern US in 1400 CE from eastern Alaska and northwestern Canada. Upon coming into contact with the Puebla civilization, they adopted its cultivation techniques and agricultural productions.

From the Spanish colonizers – who first called them Navajos – they assimilated the habit of raising animals in herds and herds for food and to exchange for other foodstuffs. There followed the learning of weaving and the production of clothes and blankets.

By the 1860s, the Spaniards realized that the Navajo had thousands of head of cattle, vast cultivated areas and a past of territorial expansion, redefining their identity and connecting with neighboring Pueblos, Apaches, Utes and Comanches which oscillated between military incursions and commerce.

But the Apaches were also in the path of the conquerors. Fulfilling tradition, these inaugurated a long period of attacks and pillages on the Indians.

Navajo native to one of Monument Valley's iconic formations.

A few years later, the United States expelled the Spanish and Mexicans from the area and took over the annexation of Navajo territory using a strategic network of forts. Angry about the construction of railroads, mining, and invasion in general, the Navajo retaliated like never before.

Simultaneously with the carnage of the American Civil War, the years 1860-61 proved to be so punishing for the colonists and military that they became known as “The fearing Team".

The reaction did not wait. Based in New Mexico, Union forces commanded by Kit Carson systematically burned Navajo crops.

Long Walk Violence and the Marginalization that followed

They led us first to the surrender and then to the condemnation of the long walk, an infamous deportation in which some 9.000 men, women and children had to walk in the desert for nearly 500 km to Fort Summer, where the US government had installed Bosque Redondo, the first major Indian reservation.

Settlers & Settlers

US and Navajo Nation flags wave near Navajo Bridge

After 18 days of marching, there were more than 200 dead.

Thereafter, the military authorities were able to maintain and control the Navajo on this and other reservations that grew in size to their original territory.

Many natives were integrated into the army as scouts, but the permanent aggressions of the civilian settlers and prejudice prevented a better relationship between the two peoples. These days, this ethnic and cultural divide remains unresolved.

As part of the Navajo Nation, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park was never integrated into the North American network of National Parks.

Entering Navajo Reservation

Sign at the entrance to Navajo Bridge marks entry into Navajo Nation territory

Accordingly, all the ten dollars paid by the visitors are used to support the Navajo people who, after a long dispute with the federal governments, also won legislation (based on the tribal code), their own Council and Supreme Court - installed in the capital Window Rock – as well as the right to have autonomous forces of authority.

The Unusual Military Mastery of the Navajo Indigenous

Despite the bipolar relationship that Native Americans have always had with Washington, the Navajo have, in fact, gained a curious military reputation. are yours famous code talkers recruited by the Marines during the 2nd World War for the Pacific theater, in order to transmit secret tactical messages via telephone or radio, based on indigenous dialects.

For many natives, this and other collaborations never paid off. A few years earlier, the United States had denied the Navajo social assistance because the Indians lived in a communal society. More recently, federal funding for the indigenous sub-nation has proved insufficient to supply the interiority and the gaps that victimize it.

During the second half of the XNUMXth century, uranium and coal mining represented a significant source of income.

But demand for uranium has decreased and, worse than that, the Navajo population, uninformed about the harm caused by radioactivity, suffered serious ecological and biological damage which, in 2005, led to the cancellation of the extraction.

It is now known that Navajo Nation lands are home to the most important mineral resources in all of the native domains of the United States, but the Navajo continue to depend on other activities.

Crafts and tourism complemented each other and while many families have artisans, some of their elements also dress up as cowboys to represent the missing protagonists.

Key West, USA

The Tropical Wild West of the USA

We've come to the end of the Overseas Highway and the ultimate stronghold of propagandism Florida Keys. The continental United States here they surrender to a dazzling turquoise emerald marine vastness. And to a southern reverie fueled by a kind of Caribbean spell.
tombstone, USA

Tombstone: the City Too Hard to Die

Silver veins discovered at the end of the XNUMXth century made Tombstone a prosperous and conflictive mining center on the frontier of the United States to Mexico. Lawrence Kasdan, Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner and other Hollywood directors and actors made famous the Earp brothers and the bloodthirsty duel of “OK Corral”. The Tombstone, which, over time, has claimed so many lives, is about to last.
Grand Canyon, USA

Journey through the Abysmal North America

The Colorado River and tributaries began flowing into the plateau of the same name 17 million years ago and exposed half of Earth's geological past. They also carved one of its most stunning entrails.
unmissable roads

Great Routes, Great Trips

With pompous names or mere road codes, certain roads run through really sublime scenarios. From Road 66 to the Great Ocean Road, they are all unmissable adventures behind the wheel.
Monument Valley, USA

Indians or Cowboys?

Iconic Western filmmakers like John Ford immortalized what is the largest Indian territory in the United States. Today, in the Navajo Nation, the Navajo also live in the shoes of their old enemies.
Death Valley, USA

The Hottest Place Resurrection

Since 1921, Al Aziziyah, in Libya, was considered the hottest place on the planet. But the controversy surrounding the 58th measured there meant that, 99 years later, the title was returned to Death Valley.
Albuquerque, USA

When the Drums Sound, the Indians Resist

With more than 500 tribes present, the pow wow "Gathering of the Nations" celebrates the sacred remnants of Native American cultures. But it also reveals the damage inflicted by colonizing civilization.
Florida Keys, USA

The Caribbean Stepping Stone of the USA

Os United States continental islands seem to close to the south in its capricious peninsula of Florida. Don't stop there. More than a hundred islands of coral, sand and mangroves form an eccentric tropical expanse that has long seduced American vacationers.
Miami, USA

A Masterpiece of Urban Rehabilitation

At the turn of the 25st century, the Wynwood neighbourhood remained filled with abandoned factories and warehouses and graffiti. Tony Goldman, a shrewd real estate investor, bought more than XNUMX properties and founded a mural park. Much more than honoring graffiti there, Goldman founded the Wynwood Arts District, the great bastion of creativity in Miami.
Miami beach, USA

The Beach of All Vanities

Few coasts concentrate, at the same time, so much heat and displays of fame, wealth and glory. Located in the extreme southeast of the USA, Miami Beach is accessible via six bridges that connect it to the rest of Florida. It is meager for the number of souls who desire it.
Little Havana, USA

Little Havana of the Nonconformists

Over the decades and until today, thousands of Cubans have crossed the Florida Straits in search of the land of freedom and opportunity. With the US a mere 145 km away, many have gone no further. His Little Havana in Miami is today the most emblematic neighborhood of the Cuban diaspora.
Mount Denali, Alaska

The Sacred Ceiling of North America

The Athabascan Indians called him Denali, or the Great, and they revered his haughtiness. This stunning mountain has aroused the greed of climbers and a long succession of record-breaking climbs.
Juneau, Alaska

The Little Capital of Greater Alaska

From June to August, Juneau disappears behind cruise ships that dock at its dockside. Even so, it is in this small capital that the fate of the 49th American state is decided.
Talkeetna, Alaska

Talkeetna's Alaska-Style Life

Once a mere mining outpost, Talkeetna rejuvenated in 1950 to serve Mt. McKinley climbers. The town is by far the most alternative and most captivating town between Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Las Vegas, USA

Where sin is always forgiven

Projected from the Mojave Desert like a neon mirage, the North American capital of gaming and entertainment is experienced as a gamble in the dark. Lush and addictive, Vegas neither learns nor regrets.
San Francisco, USA

San Francisco Cable Cars: A Life of Highs and Lows

A macabre wagon accident inspired the San Francisco cable car saga. Today, these relics work as a charm operation in the city of fog, but they also have their risks.
Mauna Kea, Hawaii

Mauna Kea: the Volcano with an Eye out in Space

The roof of Hawaii was off-limits to natives because it housed benevolent deities. But since 1968, several nations sacrificed the peace of the gods and built the greatest astronomical station on the face of the Earth.
pearl harbor, Hawaii

The Day Japan Went Too Far

On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the Pearl Harbor military base. Today, parts of Hawaii look like Japanese colonies but the US will never forget the outrage.
PN Katmai, Alaska

In the Footsteps of the Grizzly Man

Timothy Treadwell spent summers on end with the bears of Katmai. Traveling through Alaska, we followed some of its trails, but unlike the species' crazy protector, we never went too far.
Valdez, Alaska

On the Black Gold Route

In 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker caused a massive environmental disaster. The vessel stopped plying the seas, but the victim city that gave it its name continues on the path of crude oil from the Arctic Ocean.
Believers greet each other in the Bukhara region.
City
Bukhara, Uzbequistan

Among the Minarets of Old Turkestan

Situated on the ancient Silk Road, Bukhara has developed for at least two thousand years as an essential commercial, cultural and religious hub in Central Asia. It was Buddhist and then Muslim. It was part of the great Arab empire and that of Genghis Khan, the Turko-Mongol kingdoms and the Soviet Union, until it settled in the still young and peculiar Uzbekistan.
Host Wezi points out something in the distance
Beaches
Cobue; Nkwichi Lodge, Mozambique

The Hidden Mozambique of the Creaking Sands

During a tour from the bottom to the top of Lake Malawi, we find ourselves on the island of Likoma, an hour by boat from Nkwichi Lodge, the solitary base of this inland coast of Mozambique. On the Mozambican side, the lake is known as Niassa. Whatever its name, there we discover some of the most stunning and unspoilt scenery in south-east Africa.
Hippopotamus displays tusks, among others
safari
PN Mana Pools, Zimbabwe

The Zambezi at the Top of Zimbabwe

After the rainy season, the dwindling of the great river on the border with Zambia leaves behind a series of lagoons that provide water for the fauna during the dry season. The Mana Pools National Park is the name given to a vast, lush river-lake region that is disputed by countless wild species.
Young people walk the main street in Chame, Nepal
Annapurna (circuit)
Annapurna Circuit: 1th - Pokhara a ChameNepal

Finally, on the way

After several days of preparation in Pokhara, we left towards the Himalayas. The walking route only starts in Chame, at 2670 meters of altitude, with the snowy peaks of the Annapurna mountain range already in sight. Until then, we complete a painful but necessary road preamble to its subtropical base.
Sculptural Garden, Edward James, Xilitla, Huasteca Potosina, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, Cobra dos Pecados
Architecture & Design
Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Edward James' Mexican Delirium

In the rainforest of Xilitla, the restless mind of poet Edward James has twinned an eccentric home garden. Today, Xilitla is lauded as an Eden of the Surreal.
Salto Angel, Rio that falls from the sky, Angel Falls, PN Canaima, Venezuela
Aventura
PN Canaima, Venezuela

Kerepakupai, Salto Angel: The River that Falls from Heaven

In 1937, Jimmy Angel landed a light aircraft on a plateau lost in the Venezuelan jungle. The American adventurer did not find gold but he conquered the baptism of the longest waterfall on the face of the Earth
Ceremonies and Festivities
Pentecost Island, Vanuatu

Naghol: Bungee Jumping without Modern Touches

At Pentecost, in their late teens, young people launch themselves from a tower with only lianas tied to their ankles. Bungee cords and harnesses are inappropriate fussiness from initiation to adulthood.
Nova Sintra, Brava, Cape Verde, panoramic
Cities
Nova Sintra, Brava, Cape Verde

A Creole Sintra, instead of Saloia

When Portuguese settlers discovered the island of Brava, they noticed its climate, much wetter than most of Cape Verde. Determined to maintain connections with the distant metropolis, they called the main town Nova Sintra.
Lunch time
Margilan, Uzbekistan

An Uzbekistan's Breadwinner

In one of the many bakeries in Margilan, worn out by the intense heat of the tandyr oven, the baker Maruf'Jon works half-baked like the distinctive traditional breads sold throughout Uzbekistan
Treasures, Las Vegas, Nevada, City of Sin and Forgiveness
Culture
Las Vegas, USA

Where sin is always forgiven

Projected from the Mojave Desert like a neon mirage, the North American capital of gaming and entertainment is experienced as a gamble in the dark. Lush and addictive, Vegas neither learns nor regrets.
Reindeer Racing, Kings Cup, Inari, Finland
Sport
Inari, Finland

The Wackiest Race on the Top of the World

Finland's Lapps have been competing in the tow of their reindeer for centuries. In the final of the Kings Cup - Porokuninkuusajot - , they face each other at great speed, well above the Arctic Circle and well below zero.
Eternal Spring Shrine
Traveling

Taroko George

Deep in Taiwan

In 1956, skeptical Taiwanese doubted that the initial 20km of Central Cross-Island Hwy was possible. The marble canyon that challenged it is today the most remarkable natural setting in Formosa.

Vietnamese queue
Ethnic

Nha Trang-Doc Let, Vietnam

The Salt of the Vietnamese Land

In search of attractive coastlines in old Indochina, we become disillusioned with the roughness of Nha Trang's bathing area. And it is in the feminine and exotic work of the Hon Khoi salt flats that we find a more pleasant Vietnam.

View of Fa Island, Tonga, Last Polynesian Monarchy
Got2Globe Photo Portfolio
Got2Globe Portfolio

Exotic Signs of Life

Acre, Templar Stronghold, Israel, Crispy Sweets
History
Saint John of Acre, Israel

The Fortress That Withstood Everything

It was a frequent target of the Crusades and taken over and over again. Today, Israeli, Acre is shared by Arabs and Jews. He lives much more peaceful and stable times than the ones he went through.
PN Timanfaya, Mountains of Fire, Lanzarote, Caldera del Corazoncillo
Islands
PN Timanfaya, Lanzarote, Canary Islands

PN Timanfaya and the Fire Mountains of Lanzarote

Between 1730 and 1736, out of nowhere, dozens of volcanoes in Lanzarote erupted successively. The massive amount of lava they released buried several villages and forced almost half of the inhabitants to emigrate. The legacy of this cataclysm is the current Martian setting of the exuberant PN Timanfaya.
Sampo Icebreaker, Kemi, Finland
Winter White
Kemi, Finland

It's No "Love Boat". Breaks the Ice since 1961

Built to maintain waterways through the most extreme arctic winter, the icebreaker Sampo” fulfilled its mission between Finland and Sweden for 30 years. In 1988, he reformed and dedicated himself to shorter trips that allow passengers to float in a newly opened channel in the Gulf of Bothnia, in clothes that, more than special, seem spacey.
José Saramago in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, Glorieta de Saramago
Literature
Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain

José Saramago's Basalt Raft

In 1993, frustrated by the Portuguese government's disregard for his work “The Gospel According to Jesus Christ”, Saramago moved with his wife Pilar del Río to Lanzarote. Back on this somewhat extraterrestrial Canary Island, we visited his home. And the refuge from the portuguese censorship that haunted the writer.
travel western australia, surfspotting
Nature
Perth to Albany, Australia

Across the Far West of Australia

Few people worship evasion like the aussies. With southern summer in full swing and the weekend just around the corner, Perthians are taking refuge from the urban routine in the nation's southwest corner. For our part, without compromise, we explore endless Western Australia to its southern limit.
Girl plays with leaves on the shore of the Great Lake at Catherine Palace
Autumn
Saint Petersburg, Russia

Golden Days Before the Storm

Aside from the political and military events precipitated by Russia, from mid-September onwards, autumn takes over the country. In previous years, when visiting Saint Petersburg, we witnessed how the cultural and northern capital was covered in a resplendent yellow-orange. A dazzling light that hardly matches the political and military gloom that had spread in the meantime.
Matukituki River, New Zealand
Natural Parks
Wanaka, New Zealand

The Antipodes Great Outdoors

If New Zealand is known for its tranquility and intimacy with Nature, Wanaka exceeds any imagination. Located in an idyllic setting between the homonymous lake and the mystic Mount Aspiring, it became a place of worship. Many kiwis aspire to change their lives there.
Fort Galle, Sri Lanka, Ceylon Legendary Taprobana
UNESCO World Heritage
Galle, Sri Lanka

Galle Fort: A Portuguese and then Dutch (His) story

Camões immortalized Ceylon as an indelible landmark of the Discoveries, where Galle was one of the first fortresses that the Portuguese controlled and yielded. Five centuries passed and Ceylon gave way to Sri Lanka. Galle resists and continues to seduce explorers from the four corners of the Earth.
Era Susi towed by dog, Oulanka, Finland
Characters
PN Oulanka, Finland

A Slightly Lonesome Wolf

Jukka “Era-Susi” Nordman has created one of the largest packs of sled dogs in the world. He became one of Finland's most iconic characters but remains faithful to his nickname: Wilderness Wolf.
Mahé Ilhas das Seychelles, friends of the beach
Beaches
Mahé, Seychelles

The Big Island of the Small Seychelles

Mahé is the largest of the islands of the smallest country in Africa. It's home to the nation's capital and most of the Seychellois. But not only. In its relative smallness, it hides a stunning tropical world, made of mountainous jungle that merges with the Indian Ocean in coves of all sea tones.
Rostov Veliky Kremlin, Russia
Religion
Rostov Veliky, Russia

Under the Domes of the Russian Soul

It is one of the oldest and most important medieval cities, founded during the still pagan origins of the nation of the tsars. At the end of the XNUMXth century, incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Moscow, it became an imposing center of orthodox religiosity. Today, only the splendor of kremlin Muscovite trumps the citadel of tranquil and picturesque Rostov Veliky.
Serra do Mar train, Paraná, airy view
On Rails
Curitiba a Morretes, Paraná, Brazil

Down Paraná, on Board the Train Serra do Mar

For more than two centuries, only a winding and narrow road connected Curitiba to the coast. Until, in 1885, a French company opened a 110 km railway. We walked along it to Morretes, the final station for passengers today. 40km from the original coastal terminus of Paranaguá.
Singapore, Success and Monotony Island
Society
Singapore

The Island of Success and Monotony

Accustomed to planning and winning, Singapore seduces and recruits ambitious people from all over the world. At the same time, it seems to bore to death some of its most creative inhabitants.
Daily life
Arduous Professions

the bread the devil kneaded

Work is essential to most lives. But, certain jobs impose a degree of effort, monotony or danger that only a few chosen ones can measure up to.
São João Farm, Pantanal, Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul, sunset
Wildlife
Fazenda São João, Miranda, Brazil

Pantanal with Paraguay in Sight

When the Fazenda Passo do Lontra decided to expand its ecotourism, it recruited the other family farm, the São João. Further away from the Miranda River, this second property reveals a remote Pantanal, on the verge of Paraguay. The country and the homonymous river.
Full Dog Mushing
Scenic Flights
Seward, Alaska

The Alaskan Dog Mushing Summer

It's almost 30 degrees and the glaciers are melting. In Alaska, entrepreneurs have little time to get rich. Until the end of August, dog mushing cannot stop.