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And tuco

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I don´t remember exactly when was, but was around four or five years ago. I went with my family to Antuco, is not a big city, but is known for the volcano that is near. In this moment of my life, I did want to study geology, and this trip was a perfect opportunity to know a powerful structure built for the nature. We were there about two or three weeks, around the eighth day we went to the volcano, in the in the path we saw a big monolith in memory of a military platoon, who dies in a blizzard when they are marching  from the barracks. When we arrive to the skirts of the volcano, the road was flat, as we were going forward, begin to be steeper. In a point (I remember so good this part), the soil was covered for a little black rocks with little craters, like meteorites and the air, smells like ashes, and we are not near of the volcanic cone. We traveled around fifteen minutes more and the air was gray, and smells like rotten eggs and ashes (Probably, for the sulfur), fifteen minute...

Turkey, like turkey

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An old and forgotten city between Europe and the middle east, between the black sea and the Aegean sea, in the Bosphorus, is Istanbul. Isn´t a country, but is a city in a country, that I would like to go, Turkey. Is a ancient country that was the territory of the Byzantine empire and later, of the Turkish empire (dah), Who brought with it, the official religion, Islam. In the ancient this place, controls the trade of goods from Asia and India to Europe; and the control of this region by the Turkish, caused the discovery of America. Personally I would like live in Istanbul or Edessa, ancient cities full of history. Is for this reason that I love this country, the history, so much things happened there, the biggest empires of the earth fought there for this strategic zone, Greeks, Persians, Assyrians, Romans, Saracens. The people that was there builds immense buildings, mosques, bridges, among others. I would like live or work in this place BUT exist a little problem, the...