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

Robberies suffered by police in Africa

Of course, negotiating the ridiculous rule violation, in which the group of policemen paid in cash the amount agreed upon bargaining, it addresses all, it would be a humiliating lack of authority for agents that are robbing you hide.

byJavier Brandoli

15 November, 2011

Chimoio: Back to Africa

"hay un mercado en el que se venden los restos de los restos y a su alrededor una masa de gente que deambula vendiendo, looking, going, buying, drinking or eating, that the street is the great house of Africans. Next to the bus station, always meeting place for the cities, there is a market for indoor wooden huts. Almost no light enters or run the air. The fishy smell is intense dry"

byJavier Brandoli

8 November, 2011

Videoblog

Cape Horn: World's End

Again I was following in the footsteps of Charles Darwin, the author of the Theory of…

byJavier Brandoli

3 November, 2011

Goodbye Zimbabwe, Mugabe goodbye

The feeling is that the country is undone, everything is decaying. No freedom dreamed of and fought, that a leader of your own skin color does not make you free, tions from comida, no security. It could be anything this beautiful country and the blame is not the liberators of the ancient tyrants. Zimbabwe has enough resources and infrastructure legacy-still languish- to dream of something more than a patriotic salute to the black cause. The cause is to have future black shelves.

byJavier Brandoli

2 November, 2011

The Highlands and the last night in Zimbabwe

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.

byJavier Brandoli

24 Oct., 2011

Mana Pools: Buffalo attack, the night of hyenas

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.

byJavier Brandoli

17 Oct., 2011

Berna: five centuries of imprisonment for the bears

(...) Is 1513 when the soldiers come home victors of the Battle of Novara carrying a live bear as a trophy. We decide to build an animal enclosure, a pit before the central door (...) French General Brune humiliated in 1798 to the Bernese after taking the city and take all the animals to Paris.

byJavier Brandoli

12 Oct., 2011

Videoblog

Matusadona: safaris in bote

This beautiful park is a cluster Zimbabwean different image, reflections in the water, of varied colors…

byJavier Brandoli

7 Oct., 2011

Matusadona: the park that does not belong to the maps

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.

byJavier Brandoli

7 Oct., 2011

Maputo: the most beautiful train station in the world

Maputo has an important historical legacy. Account, say, with one of the ten most beautiful train stations in the world, designed by Eiffel; a fort in which he played the fate of the colonies of South Africa; an iron house as beautiful as useless and the arena to the south of the planet. A special city.

byJavier Brandoli

28 September, 2011

36 horas navegando el Lago Kariba

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.

byJavier Brandoli

26 September, 2011

A beer in Victoria Falls: the promise of the end

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.

byJavier Brandoli

15 September, 2011

The march of the elephants

The march of the elephants

Videoblog

The march of the elephants

In the park of Hwange, Zimbabwe, a group of elephants cross quickly when encountering a group…

byJavier Brandoli

8 September, 2011

The hotel of the trees and the words

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.

byJavier Brandoli

8 September, 2011

Rhineland-Palatinate: stone sentinels of the Rhine

Following the course of the Rhine is to cross over the waters of Europe's history. A flow may be the best road we understand the past of a region. In this case, the route leaves you speechless. The castles and fortresses are happening before our eyes. The river is just a spectator.

byJavier Brandoli

7 September, 2011

Great Zimbabwe: the ruins of Black Africa

(...) 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.

byJavier Brandoli

1 September, 2011

Gonarezhou: the garden of the baobab

(...) Sometimes tourists ended excursions on foot after being assaulted and car stolen in the middle of the visit. A free in the package include a walking safari to the hotel. That is the past ...

byJavier Brandoli

26 August, 2011

Spain

Cuenca: track of the impregnable wall

A city of steep, narrow streets in which history is palpable to the rhythm of the feet. Cuenca is one of those Spanish villas step that is required. Its cathedral and the well known Hanging Houses have made this spot an icon that we all have in memory.

byJavier Brandoli

25 August, 2011

Kuna Yala Islands: "Lost" in the middle of the Caribbean by 20 dollars a day

To inhabit a deserted island, without electricity or running water, between the Caribbean Sea is a unique experience. Sleep rough at night under starry skies only light a fire. Pure nature.

byJavier Brandoli

15 August, 2011

Tuscany: the secret of Chianti Route

Florence, Siena, Pisa .... There are few places in the world with more beauty accumulated Tuscany. Art history and overwhelming that this time the mix with the allure of Chianti Route. Small towns, medieval aspect, scattered around a small road through Tuscany. Good restaurants and good hotels to go to one of our favorite routes.

byJavier Brandoli

11 August, 2011

Agenda VAP

VAP, in "The Good Life" of Punto Radio

The reporter interviewed Elena Markinez on Sunday 31 de julio en su programa de Punto Radio "La buena vida" Javier a Brandoli, one of those responsible for viajesalpasado.com. From Cape Town, Javier beat out for the audience his experiences in South Africa a year after Iniesta goal.

byJavier Brandoli

1 August, 2011

Normandy: the footprints of the «Longest Day»

The beaches of Normandy are a fascinating trail of war who has lived most cruel man. Between sand, museums, churches and cliffs can discover everything that happened 6 June 1944 in which the sea dawned with a date with history.

byJavier Brandoli

1 August, 2011

Three week visit to Zimbabwe

(...) sail on Lake Kariba and sleep three nights on their, I hope, calm waters; and I'll get to the mountains of Nyanga park where tumbling water see you again, this time at the falls Mutarazi (...), porJavier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

29 July, 2011

Sport in South African townships

...Only a few used condoms with the band, in the grass, remember that we are in territory fucked. The rest is an installation of the first set in a third zone. Langa is one of those neighborhoods where the salads are dressed with oil from the car..

byJavier Brandoli

22 July, 2011

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