Mkuni: a villa African
Javier Brandoli (Zambia) The Mkuni villa next to Victoria Falls, on the side of Zambia.…
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.
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Have you heard how hippos shout?
Javier Brandoli (South Africa) It is one of the strongest and most memorable sounds of the jungle. The hypos are…
Seven selected enclaves of African history (on my journey)
Tracing the history of Africa is not always an easy task. But, the continete has obvious symbolic places in which to understand a little more of his turbulent past. Here are seven that I spent.
A lion at night
Javier Brandoli (South Africa) The night safaris are always special. Animals are the currency, a…
Santa Maria Nova: Church gravestones speaking
Amid the urban center of a city surrounded by a river, the mountains and the signal from a nearby sea. A modern cemetery is to the left of the view, the first person to cross the street, then a fence and then fixed in a strange church. A church? A cemetery? Are both things at once?
Namibia: Kolmanns- coup, the ghost town of diamonds
City, in the desert, is now a ghostly landscape. The once luxurious homes look like dunes go through doors and windows. The richness of the period in which flourished diamonds has given way to oblivion. There was installed the first x-ray machine in Africa, there was a casino, had air conditioning ...
Cheetah hunting
Javier Brandoli – Kruger Park (South Africa) In the Kruger Park, South Africa, We arrived when a cheetah had just finished…
Discovering the Sources of the Nile
The encounter with the legendary source of the Nile is an unforgettable experience for any lover of travel. Its calm water, the fishermen with image stitching their networks and throwing the horizon, the morning mist, country music bar, current noise in areas of rapid ... wherever the White Nile was born.
Scotland: Tour of the wildest castles
The traveler includes a rock that comes from the same sea guts. On top of that mass of stone castle holds a, Dunnottar, demolished and
Kruger Park: the fight to the death between men and lions
After the park opened to tourists stopped killing lions, administrators stunned after finding that the public preferred to watch the cats that the thousands of antelope that raced across the savannah
Quito: the city built on the ashes of the Incas
The capital of Ecuador is one of the best examples of colonial architecture. Their churches and monasteries, well preserved, give the city a romantic and old. But, Quito was once a great city of the Inca empire. Why there are no remains of the greatest empire that existed in America before the arrival of the Spanish?
Flamenco classes in South Africa
Javier Brandoli (South Africa) La Rosa Spanish Dance is a flamenco academy in Cape Town. A unique…
And in injury time… came the leopard
There are stories that seem taken from a film script. Followers of this blog know that a few months ago I threw in the towel on the important, most crucial, challenge of seeing the "big five" in Africa: elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo and leopard (take an ironic commentary crucial, although my boat for joy when I saw it was to win the Champions).
Toledo: the secret caves and the Templars
¿How are Toledos? Arabic, the Christian, Jew, you got the miracle that all live together in harmony at a time ... The beautiful Spanish city has the power to reinvent itself each visit. VOD in this report shows the most mysterious and hidden Toledo, the less visible to tourists: the eternal city of the Templars and secret caves.
Vysehrad: the dark and obscure hill in Prague
Outside the monumental center of Prague there is a hill that is buried in the history of the Czech Republic. A cemetery, a church and gardens filled with exciting legends. A place as beautiful and haunting as the great city that was born at his feet. It all starts with the life of the Princess Libuse and pagan prophecy ...
Portugal: two dream homes in the medieval frontier
The charming interior of Portugal, with their people calm and past perennial, hides a story of battles and castles border lookouts. Two lodgings's dream lost in the fields of brand vintage Lusitanian.
Flight helicopter over Victoria Falls
Javier Brandoli (Livingstone, Zambia) Helicopter flights over Victoria Falls are the opportunity to see the…
How do you say fart in Uganda?
The fun and special experience a unique encounter with mountain gorillas. A South African clumsy got a special time to become a mad trip to the jungle. The encounter with the great apes left a lasting memory.
The show of mzungus and the dwarf
There are some stories from the end of my trip to Uganda that should not be forgotten. The bad connections blocked, as I wanted, that blog and travel go hand in hand. Now, from the snowy mountains of Switzerland (What change!!!), I begin to explain the end of what for me has been a fascinating adventure.
Brittany: the way of the customs
A journey through history attached to the wild sea Breton. Red rocks by the water that climbs. A path which passes through the mythical Mont Saint Michel and its abbey full of mystery. Customs officers kicked the coast in search of shipwrecks and pirates.
Seven months and one week after I return home
Summary of seven and a half months, several countries and many adventures in Africa
The cells of slaves from Zanzibar
Next to the Stone Town's Anglican Cathedral, under what is now a hostel, they can…
Uganda: with chimpanzees in the jungle wild
The Kibale forest hides one of the last strongholds of wild chimpanzees. Follow the thick tropical vegetation is an unforgettable experience. Her screams, the jumps between the branches and almost human behavior make this place something magical.
Uganda: the encounter with the "green" Nile
Playing the Nile is a special experience for the traveler. His wild in Murchison Falls leap; his calm millennial against Paraa Safari Lodge. Uganda is a country of green landscape, red dirt roads, dense clouds skies. A fascinating place.
