https://www.aguaplano.org/en/category/life-sucks-bad-news/ Un-packaged Travel Sat, 12 May 2018 12:47:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 https://www.aguaplano.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/cropped-Logo-Aguaplano-senza-scritta-1-32x32.png https://www.aguaplano.org/en/category/life-sucks-bad-news/ 32 32 https://www.aguaplano.org/en/female-ranger-killed-two-british-tourists-kidnapped-in-virunga/ https://www.aguaplano.org/en/female-ranger-killed-two-british-tourists-kidnapped-in-virunga/#respond Sat, 12 May 2018 12:47:34 +0000 https://www.aguaplano.org/?p=23495 #newsflash One female ranger killed, and two British tourists kidnapped this morning in Virunga National Park, DR Congo https://bit.ly/2IakQM4 #virunga #savevirunga]]> https://www.aguaplano.org/en/female-ranger-killed-two-british-tourists-kidnapped-in-virunga/feed/ 0 https://www.aguaplano.org/en/virunga-national-park-ranger-ishara-birindwa-killed-defending-the-park/ https://www.aguaplano.org/en/virunga-national-park-ranger-ishara-birindwa-killed-defending-the-park/#respond Sat, 08 Aug 2015 04:30:05 +0000 http://www.aguaplano.org/?p=8179 https://virunga.org/donate “We deeply regret to announce the death of our Ranger Easter Ishara Birindwa, killed during a Mai Mai attack on one of our positions in the Northern Sector of the park yesterday evening. A force of Mai Mai militias estimated at between 20 and 30 armed men attacked the ranger position in the early […]]]> https://www.aguaplano.org/en/virunga-national-park-ranger-ishara-birindwa-killed-defending-the-park/feed/ 0 https://www.aguaplano.org/en/the-motionless-trip/ https://www.aguaplano.org/en/the-motionless-trip/#respond Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:43:42 +0000 http://www.aguaplano.org/?p=6651   114.500 tons and 1.500 cabins Electric power generated enough for a city of 50.000 people 5 restaurants, 13 bars, 5 Jacuzzis and 4 pools 1 three stories high theater 1 dance floor the tek coating is enough to cover two soccer field, Fuel consumption: 12 Tons per hour With all the due respect for […]]]> https://www.aguaplano.org/en/the-motionless-trip/feed/ 0 https://www.aguaplano.org/en/children-of-palestine-in-pictures-2/ https://www.aguaplano.org/en/children-of-palestine-in-pictures-2/#respond Sat, 14 May 2011 16:24:00 +0000 http://www.aguaplano.org/?p=6114 Children of Palestine – in pictures]]> https://www.aguaplano.org/en/children-of-palestine-in-pictures-2/feed/ 0 https://www.aguaplano.org/en/ivory-coast-hell-invisible-commandos-march-2011/ https://www.aguaplano.org/en/ivory-coast-hell-invisible-commandos-march-2011/#respond Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:40:39 +0000 http://www.aguaplano.org/?p=5922 Ivory Coast Hell – Invisible Commandos – March 2011 Don’t forget!!!]]> https://www.aguaplano.org/en/ivory-coast-hell-invisible-commandos-march-2011/feed/ 0 https://www.aguaplano.org/en/from-haiti-to-machu-picchu/ https://www.aguaplano.org/en/from-haiti-to-machu-picchu/#respond Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:31:59 +0000 http://www.aguaplano.org/?p=4924 Machu Picchu, one of the most beautiful places on Earth that we have visited in 2002, suffered severe floods that caused casualties and isolation. The newspapers reported nothing about the people who live there in the nearby villages and their difficulties, instead all the reports are about the 1500 tourists who were evacuated by helicopters. […]]]> https://www.aguaplano.org/en/from-haiti-to-machu-picchu/feed/ 0 https://www.aguaplano.org/en/mount-everest-to-host-nepal-cabinet-meeting/ https://www.aguaplano.org/en/mount-everest-to-host-nepal-cabinet-meeting/#respond Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:55:30 +0000 http://www.aguaplano.org/?p=4822 From BBC News Nepal is to hold a cabinet meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the threat global warming poses to glaciers. On 4 December prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and those politicians physically fit enough will ascend 17,192ft (5,250m) to base camp. In October the Maldives held a cabinet meeting underwater to warn of […]]]> https://www.aguaplano.org/en/mount-everest-to-host-nepal-cabinet-meeting/feed/ 0 https://www.aguaplano.org/en/hurricane-in-el-salvador/ https://www.aguaplano.org/en/hurricane-in-el-salvador/#respond Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:51:28 +0000 http://www.aguaplano.org/?p=4065 From BBC: “At least 124 people have been killed in El Salvador by flooding and landslides following days of heavy… President Mauricio Funes has declared a national emergency, describing the damages as “incalculable”. The capital San Salvador and central San Vicente province were the hardest-hit regions…Large parts of El Salvador are without electricity or clean water and […]]]> https://www.aguaplano.org/en/hurricane-in-el-salvador/feed/ 0 https://www.aguaplano.org/en/tsunami-and-earthquake-between-samoa-and-indonesia/ https://www.aguaplano.org/en/tsunami-and-earthquake-between-samoa-and-indonesia/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:58:16 +0000 http://www.aguaplano.org/?p=2336 Autumn 2009 After the  tsunami in Samoa that killed 150, an earthquake hit Indonesia, killing in Sumatra 1000 thousand people.]]> https://www.aguaplano.org/en/tsunami-and-earthquake-between-samoa-and-indonesia/feed/ 0