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feb 05 2012 Burkina Faso: Dafra sacred catfish

For: Enrique Vaquerizo (text and photos)

Burkina Faso: los siluros sagrados de Dafra

The scene is indescribable. All around the rocks and hanging bloodstained fur hundreds of goats, cows and a horse, be scattered walking endless chicken feathers like a foam party they were, the smell of death pervades every corner of the lake.

Africa, No news from Ithaca

Jan 16 2012 The traveler and the nostalgia (II y fin)

For: Javier Brandoli

I look out the airplane window British leads me to Spain, after a stopover at Johannesburg. I am slowly losing the image of Table Mountain to be impossible to retain its shape. Symbolic image. Cape Town is over, just for now Africa.

Blogs VaP, A Place in the World, A journey through Africa

Jan 12 2012 The nostalgia of the traveler (Part I)

For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)

You see your life pass, Cape Town was because my life, dim. Nostalgic things that resolves with a practical "and mind you that balls, all that is past ".

Blogs VaP, Highlights, A Place in the World, A journey through Africa

December 09 2011 Vilanculos: malaria and the home of artisans

For: Javier Brandoli

Vilanculos: la malaria y la casa de los artesanos

"Sandy has spent more than 30 times since he decided in malaria 1999 come and live with your partner, Snowy, a Vilanculos, a natural paradise where the buzz of a mosquito can mean loss of life"

Africa, A Place in the World, A journey through Africa

December 05 2011 Camel Road Gates Sahara
For: Juan Ramon Morales (text and photos)

Ruta en camello a las Puertas del Sáhara

"We 4 running days. Not hot, Contrary to what most thought. The light reverberates on mica lining the road, where more than one occasion the rounded forms of the abundant fossils or arrowheads are more unreal the way in which we operate under the slow pace of camels, as in a dream"

Africa, Blogs VaP, The Dark Side of the Moon

December 02 2011 Ethiopia (In): in search of Spanish who discovered the sources of the Blue Nile
For: Miquel Silvestre (text and photos)

Etiopía (I): en busca del español que descubrió las Fuentes del Nilo Azul

Children are behind the rider meowing "yuiyuiyui"; yui means foreign. All reach out asking for money. The panhandling becomes suffocating. It is certainly worse than in any other African country that has been. As for the legend that throw stones, true. Some of these beggars are children and there are also skillful slingers to be careful.

Africa, Dodging rocks

nov 29 2011 The strange story of a normal day in Africa
For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)

Las extrañas historias de un día normal en África

A workshop between chickens and debris; a bank with tickets "rich" and "poor"; a Zimbabwean who crossed the border with their horses fleeing Mozambique "war"; a bicycle hanging from the fish; a road impassable; an eternal corner ... A day in Vilanculos.