Javier Brandoli

Brandoli Javier Manzano, Journalist and photography lover. I have lived since 2010 South Africa, Mozambique, Mexico, Italy, Thailand. I now live in the United States, New York, since April 2025.

460 articles

Covers of books on Africa

Covers of books on Africa

The best travel books and politics of South Africa

Now, flight to Johannesburg tomorrow again, here are the books I recommend to understand something this continent. There will be other, Insurance, of high quality and I'll read in the coming years, so I understand this list as personal and situational.

byJavier Brandoli

20 March, 2012

Cabo de Gata

Cabo de Gata

Cabo de Gata: snow, the pastor and the lighthouse keeper

The history of old men who saw snow, a lighthouse keeper at the mist leaves no sleep, a pastor who has never left the park or farmers who depend on a dry swamp. The guts of my favorite place in Spain.

byJavier Brandoli

13 March, 2012

Kruger Park Buffalo

Kruger Park Buffalo

Running Route in South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi

Day 21 March begins the journey to prepare a route that in August we will discover the fascinating and unknown Mozambique. Also cross the South African Kruger and Lake Malawi. In April we will program and cost. !The adventure begins!

byJavier Brandoli

11 March, 2012

University of Coimbra

University of Coimbra

Coimbra: the walls of letters

The University is like if you observe any, with the city at the foot, to warn residents that are here one after the run. Then, among its narrow streets and steep, the city speaks in its walls filled with messages of rebellion, the default of thinking before he decided to be.

byJavier Brandoli

6 March, 2012

Dodging rocks

The challenge of exploring the world in the XXI century

Many think that the climbers are crazy about climbing mountains to engage in risk of their lives but I understand them beyond what words can explain. There is something up there. Reach the summit should look something like what I feel when I reach a distant destination ...

byJavier Brandoli

2 March, 2012

Delhi (II): an awakening to blows

I woke up with an Indian Bollywood actor seemed a, with his mustache, gently holding my hand and gave me some blows with the other. One dreamed many awakenings in India, but I never imagined one so surreal.

byJavier Brandoli

28 February, 2012

Delhi (In): backpackers, the smell and cleavage

Paharganj is backpacker area and seekers of life. They say it's one of the most dangerous areas of the city, but nothing in this place looks like a risk not survive. We stayed at the Inn Cozzy, christened the resort, whose price per night is less than five euros.

byJavier Brandoli

21 February, 2012

A route through the charming towns of Segovia

Historical towns that retain a spectacular heritage and delicious cuisine. A simple route, easy to do to spend a day or a weekend, in a rural Spain to discover which preserves its past. Enjoy a path of the senses.

byJavier Brandoli

14 February, 2012

Lima: Looking for this child

What is surprising is that John, the child face something sad look aged and, is also working. In fact, John would be nearly impossible without making the thousand bricks a day that will give the family with six euros to eat. Eight years after that child look

byJavier Brandoli

7 February, 2012

Florence: lost in the night

That's when you find the sound of your steps solitary narrow cobbled streets. As is, There are even some places where there seems to echo. Curious feeling of walking back to the hotel tired with the constant desire to lose again.

byJavier Brandoli

24 January, 2012

The traveler and the nostalgia (II y fin)

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.

byJavier Brandoli

16 January, 2012

The nostalgia of the traveler (Part I)

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 ".

byJavier Brandoli

12 January, 2012

Agenda VAP

VaP. organize author tours 2012

Routes for people with curiosity and desire to see the world with the same philosophy we do this journal. Travel writer designed for people who write here. Here's our decalogue of intent: enjoy and learn; singular and plural ... I hope.

byJavier Brandoli

2 January, 2012

Waterfront: a tourist complexes bobo

(...) It's not my place or, I now understand, ceases to be. It's just a good place for a drink without thinking that in Africa the luxury malls are prepared for the rich or imbecility tourists. Remove bias is important to travel and sometimes unfair classism and falsely exercised looking up (...) Por Javier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

28 December, 2011

Cape Town: life at low cost

Many who come to this beautiful city just sense the difference, but they never behold and believe to go visiting a corner of the first world beggars dotted invisible leaving sewers, converted into a dance hungry zombies and alcohol. They come from poverty in the slums of the low cost of living is, always at risk ... Por Javier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

22 December, 2011

Trujillo: the birthplace of the conquistador bastard

No one knew then or know it at the rest of his days, but at that moment began perhaps the greatest epic man who has made

byJavier Brandoli

20 December, 2011

The Bazaruto Archipelago: the brutal beauty of a goodbye

(...) 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.

byJavier Brandoli

15 December, 2011

Vilanculos: malaria and the home of artisans

"Sandy ha pasado más de 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"

byJavier Brandoli

9 December, 2011

Best of VAP

The seven most beautiful palaces in the world

These are the seven palaces that we liked in VaP.. What are yours?

byJavier Brandoli

30 November, 2011

The strange story of a normal day in Africa

A workshop between chickens and debris; un banco con entradas para "ricos" y "pobres"; un zimbabuense que se cruzó la frontera con sus caballos a Mozambique huyendo de la "guerra"; a bicycle hanging from the fish; a road impassable; an eternal corner ... A day in Vilanculos.

byJavier Brandoli

29 November, 2011

Best of VAP

The twelve most beautiful waterfalls in the world

What are the twelve most beautiful waterfalls in the world? Twelve proposals of twelve wild waterfalls, spectacular and unique locations. What are your? By J. Brandoli y R. Coarasa.

byJavier Brandoli

23 November, 2011

Vilanculos: dismissed in paradise

While waiting in the sun for someone to come to our rescue and we saw happen to Mozambicans who walk, Like most African, in the middle of nowhere doing nothing other, get a truck from the hotel. One can already sense that it must be a special place a place that stands for a way impossible

byJavier Brandoli

22 November, 2011

Rascafría: the bridge of forgiveness and the house of the hanged

And is that for those with at least three votes against innocent, the next destination was waiting a mile above, towards the port of Boundaries: the House of Gallows. Death or life depending on the distributers of Justice decided that the prisoner was to turn his steps to the right or left.

byJavier Brandoli

17 November, 2011

The five best sunsets in the world

What are the best sunsets on the planet? Where can seen the best of the sun gear? Here are our five proposals. What are your?

byJavier Brandoli

16 November, 2011

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