About the Author
My name is João Leitão and I was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1980. Since from an early age I’ve been creatively stimulated to explore various means of self developing, traveling and creative thinking.
My awareness in traveling was also brought together while history, sociology and anthropology of art kept my attention back at high school and university.
This blog is my online travel diaries in english. If you have any doubts, opinion or comment please feel free to do so.
I live in South Morocco.
You can contact me directly by phone +212.1836.5279 or to my personal email contact @ joaoleitao . com
Thank you and see you around.
October 16, 2006 at 11:21 am
Hello Joao,
I would like to congratulate you for the very interesting information and fascinating pictures you have been publishing in your blog and VT Website.
I just moved back to Morocco after spending several years in the US. And I get a cross your website while I was searching for some information on South Morocco (Marakech/Merzouga/Zagoura). I am currently organizing a 10 days trip to south of Morocco for some of my friends from the US.
Good Luck for all your future Adventures
Meryem
November 25, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Olá João,adorei ver as suas reportagens publicadas na net e no seu blog. Cheguei até ao seu trabalho quando me encontrava a procurar informações e fotos sobre o Kazakistão. Após ter deliciosamente a sua reportagem, quiz saber quem era o autor, e fiquei contente, que afinal não seria o único Portuga a querer viajar para tão longe. Fiquei com muita curiosidade de saber qual a razão de ter mudado de ideias á última hora da sua viagem á America do Sul para o Kazakhistão.
Um grande abraço e parabens pelo seu excelente trabalho.
Paulo Brandão
January 10, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Hi Joao,
Happy New Year!
Now, this is a bit long story, but here goes. I’ve never been to Portugal, but in July last year I came across the work of your fellowcountryman, Victor Gama, who’s got a connection with Sintra (or so his profile says). I went to look for photos, and found your album at Virtual Tourist. The photo of a fountain that opens the Sintra album (the one in sombre gamme) made a profound impression on me, and in October I finally put my impression into verses (I am a writer and poet).
A bit of a disappointment, I guess – I’m Russian, so the poem is in Russian, too. I didn’t realise you had a blog, so I’ve put up the photo and the poem together at my Russian blog, here – http://loscuadernos.livejournal.com/2007/01/10/. The poem was published separately before on the web.
Now, I stated your authorship, and the use is non-commercial. However, the picture is uploaded like an image from my pc. I’d like to know if you’d prefer me to upload the photo as a URL from VT website.
A huge, huge thank-you, and lots of inspiration in 2007. I noticed you’ve been to Russia, so perhaps you’ll go again and take more wonderful images?
All best,
Julia
April 14, 2007 at 8:22 am
Du musst ein Fachmann sein – wirklich guter Aufstellungsort, den du hast!
June 29, 2007 at 9:37 pm
welcome to libya desert. is good tiem and good feeling.
mahakka73@hotmail.com
April 25, 2008 at 6:38 am
that is a beautiful view, where was that photo taken?
May 31, 2008 at 8:27 am
I wrote a diary about my trip to Asia. Can I use your great picture of a iranian bus?
July 30, 2008 at 10:25 am
hey Marketta yes please you can use my picture, don’t forget to send a link back to my blog. thank you.
April 9, 2009 at 11:00 pm
hello João! my name is angela, im from kazakhstan, almaty, but currently im studying in Bilbao as a part of erasmus mundus exchange programme(by the way i’ve been to lisboa las month, it was soooooooooo cooooooool, i loved it, Tejo river seemed just gorgeous for me!). so , i’ve found ur article describing ur stay in almaty while i was surfing the internet in an attempt to find pics of almaty. i need to do that because i wanna create an album with pics of my home city in facebook. the reason for that is that i meet many people from all parts of the world here (most of them of course students , in a university where ‘m currently studying) and all of them have a biased image of Kz, imposed by a movie Borat (i think u’ve heard about this movie ”Kazakstan , ever wondered?” with Sasha Cohen Baron). so many people think that we live in a village, dont have electricity, dont know what is a car and internet, and ride camels =(, so i decided to make an album on my blog to let them see that my city is not like that. So what i wanted to say is that, thanks for ur article. it is so nice and warm, it was really pleasant for me to read these words about my city (however i am not a big patriot=)), and frankly speaking i’d like to live in another place), but anyway, thank u =)