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  • Beyond voclan Negra is an area called volcan chico, which is the most barren landscape i´ve ever seen.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • I remember the things that filled my senses while I fell asleep there: warm tortillas cooking over wood fires; copal resin burning in the church next door; cool breezes from nearby pine forests; diesel fumes from overburdened trucks; and the volcan de fuego puffing ash and intermittent red sparks off in the distance.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Lanzarote is all volcan, amazing scenary, Fuerteventura all beach and La Palma all green really special forest.

    calling in favours 2007

  • Where I am right now, the coffee and wifi flow freely, wisps of smoke puff out of the volcan de fuego nearby, and all is well.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • I have to say thats very cool indeed. petit volcan says:

    ASCII Rave in Haskell « Alex McLean 2007

  • S.V.; PEGUES, Histoire du volcan et des iles volcaniques de Santorin (Paris, 1842); CIGALLA, General statistics of the Island of Thera (Hermopolis, 1850), in Greek;

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Toi, Sicile, que ronge un volcan souterrain, Grece qu'on connait trop, Sardaigne qu'on ignore, Cites de l'Aquilon, du Couchant, de l'Aurore, Pyramides du Nil, Cathedrales du Rhin!

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • See, the Queen puts on her crown, 'and she pointed to the volcan

    Montezuma's Daughter Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • She is not so lofty as her 'husband,' for so the Aztecs name the volcan Popo, and when first I looked I could see nothing but the gigantic shape of a woman fashioned in snow, and lying like a corpse upon her lofty bier, whose hair streamed down the mountain side.

    Montezuma's Daughter Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Look yonder! 'and she pointed toward the snowy crest of the volcan Xaca.

    Montezuma's Daughter Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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