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April 03 2012 Amore and Misteria in Maputo

For: Javier Brandoli (Text and photos)

Maybe not the best time to teach that in the back were two other people, more when we found out later that at that time was one of the officers gun unholstering (amidst all the tension, was much, the situation was even comical)

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

December 15 2011 The Bazaruto Archipelago: the brutal beauty of a goodbye

For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)

El archipiélago de Bazaruto: la brutal belleza de un adiós

(...) Azura transports its wealthy clients, Harrison Ford had to stay, by helicopter from the airport. How does one cross the globe to sleep in a place or are not willing to walk its streets and its waters? (...) Por Javier Brandoli.

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

sep 01 2011 Great Zimbabwe: the ruins of Black Africa

For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)

Gran Zimbabue: las ruinas de la África negra

(...) Connect the last great king with the revolutionary little dictator rules the country; the great liberator who has left so many dead machete as will leave them with hunger if you will not soon, he decided to invent a royal line that jumps several centuries in time. Robert Mugabe, senses of Zimbabwe, name has become a direct descendant of the great African pride.

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

ago 30 2011 Jodhpur, India: the land of death

For: Edward Winter (text and photos)

(...) Standing proudly on a hill just over one hundred meters, strength is the image and emblem of Jodhpur. Built in the late fifteenth century, still belongs to the Maharaja of the city and is proud of never having been conquered (...) only child, wearing a traditional costume plays dirulba, a stringed instrument. He is accompanied by a letter that looks like a lament ...

Asia, Postcards of the world

may 14 2011 Mozambique: sense of freedom
For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)

The city falls apart like cardboard soaked by rain. Its rugged skin of tall buildings in the center, of concrete sidewalks with reluctance and constant hole, does not prevent the city has the same philosophy that all major African cities I've visited: throng outside misery, unsuitable sales stalls, fruit stored on timbers or shoes littered the streets. City, however, perhaps by the beautiful sound of Portuguese, seems closer; almost, at times, more Caribbean than African.

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

April 14 2011 Sargadelos, Lugo: smoking history
For: Edu & Eri (text and photos)

Sargadelos Lugo is a parish with just over 150 inhabitants. It may seem an unimportant, but at its heart lies the factory that introduced the first industrial capitalism in Spain, by Edu & Eri.

Spain

sep 26 2010 Chitambo: dust and dry leaves cover the heart of Livingstone
For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)

Chitambo: polvo y hojas secas cubren el corazón de Livingstone

My first post I titled Zambia "buscando a David Livingstone". Today I am, finally, with its surprising and forgotten grave. A magical place, loaded with symbolism and literary images.