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oct 24 2011 The Highlands and the last night in Zimbabwe

For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)

Las Tierras Altas y la última noche en Zimbabue

We walked along a narrow dirt road that is gaining ground in the middle of a forest where almost no light slips. Among lianas, branches that must be overcome under, fallen logs and following the progress of a boy who leads a path that seems eternal. Occasionally we heard the sound of water near and suddenly disappears. No one sees only the horizon.

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oct 17 2011 Mana Pools: Buffalo attack, the night of hyenas

For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)

Mana Pools: el ataque del búfalo, la noche de las hienas

Suddenly comes a hyena that crosses in front of me, less than five meters, along the shore. At another time I guess I would have been paralyzed but not in the Mana Pools Park where one accepts the surprising part of the routine.

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oct 07 2011 Matusadona: the park that does not belong to the maps

For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)

Matusadona: el parque que no pertenece a los mapas

Matusadona is a treat to the senses. A unique park, very beautiful, Africa teaches from the waters. It is so removed from everything that seems to be hidden from the world, as if there's life to develop on his back, the shadows (...) This place has something of paradise vetoed, end of nowhere where I never found, of piece of land that belongs to the maps.

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sep 26 2011 36 horas navegando el Lago Kariba

For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)

Then, Captain looks at me and said how about you? I looked and even calculating what they mean 15 I answer years: "I do not know what I'll do the next 15 minutes ". We laugh and we enjoy beating of waters began to rise in the wind. "Sometimes they become ten feet, tell me.

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sep 15 2011 A beer in Victoria Falls: the promise of the end
For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)

Una cerveza en Cataratas Victoria: la promesa del fin

And he looked, side again looked hop Zambia, where I lived last year unrepeatable moments. And laughed and waited for Fernando Bernardo, I called to join the group, and I put back on the precipice of rocks where the water was a blanket that you calaba, and never wanted to leave, and the delayed, I almost know acojonaba beginning to put a period and what followed? the best year and a half of my life.

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sep 08 2011 The march of the elephants
For: Javier Brandoli

In the park of Hwange, Zimbabwe, a group of elephants crosses quickly to meet a group of strangers invading your home, we. Offspring, males and females who follow his eternal walk among the leafy branches of trees. The latest issue looks at us defiantly and throws a warning beeper. This [...]

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sep 08 2011 The hotel of the trees and the words
For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)

He threw earth to control the wind, loaded his gun and looked not meet me surrounded by pachyderms. In the jungle, the market, without defenses, and controlling the rustling of leaves that were on the floor carpet. Africa.