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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Sexual miracles of Prince Abed
It was a tupper sex that Elena Ochoa was regulated area will now have clientele, kind of boring, to see their husbands in off in front of TV
Street theater work on AIDS in Khayelitsha
Street Scenes: dance and theater against AIDS in South Africa. Javier Brandoli
What do you know Spain?
Little is known of Spain in Cape Town. Spain is still a stranger in this corner of Africa, but no surprises with which this earth stumble spanish trail.
Soweto: MA in international relations
I realize I'm a nerd who teach the same story of misery and repeated to get the money. It is certain poverty; there is throughout the country, but here is a photo souvenir trades
A cheetah eating an antelope in the Kruger Park
A cheetah hunting an antelope just and starts eating its prey. Look for all…
The trip was made inside
One day I figured it was possible to take a break longer than usual. So far I've seen a lot of part-time world
Music in Kalk Bay (Javier Brandoli)
One morning in the fishing harbor of Kalk Bay, on the outskirts of Cape Town
European Un
A reality to be learned quickly is that you are a mzungu always in this part of the globe. The same story in other parts of the world where hunger corners
Advance for not moving anything
Cross the street and a guy came out of the shadows that fell upon my. I could not understand, I thought I'd ask for money, and I said no. Just at that moment I realized I was missing an eye, but instinctively went into my house
La sangoma (healer) and a concoction called "African beer"
The sangomas are a kind of ancient healers. A culture based on herbs, beliefs in the afterlife and their symbols. South Africa is estimated that more than 200.000. They are respected people and that goes for help physical or spiritual advice
Black taxis: with room 12 fit 22
Nothing happens, Your head is attached to the window perfectly, stop your knees feel them in a short time and every drop of a traveler becomes a symmetric Tetris makes all parts of the interior have to move to vacate 60 kilos of muscle and flesh
La Recoleta: the kidnapping of dead Evita and Aramburu
Aramburu ordered the 23 November 1955 kidnap the corpse of Evita, being embalmed by Dr. Pedro Ara Spanish. The body is standing on a flower delivery van and begins a tour around Buenos Aires
The mountains of the moon
Author: Richard Burton. Sentence: "El favor de los vientos va acompañado de polvareda"
Un safari en un Volkswagen Polo
Northern Cape is one of the lesser known places in South Africa. To us it seemed a place touched by the magic of authentic
A week later ...
A week ago I was in Khayelitsa, Langa y Guguletu. A week ago my vision of this place has changed. A week ago I'm preparing the return
Faces of the township (photos)
They're just expensive, but speak for themselves. Each picture was complicated to understand. It was difficult to look through the viewfinder and see what the reality was that it was across.
Waking up in the perfect city
It is impossible, if you have not seen anything about this city, believe this place is the right big toe of Africa. Not bad or good, I have learned to accept, is a reality that you tattooed on the eyes if you walk through some neighborhoods selected.
Monte Castillo Cave: ¿Flags painted on the prehistory?
In the bowels of the earth hide in Cantabria signs left by the primitive man does 200 ages. A legacy indecipherable in the eyes of modern man.
The smell of poverty
Cities always have a personal scent. A kind of nose that does not slap you forget. Whenever you return to the same place you remember the distinctive smell that there learned to chew. Cape Town I smelled nothing.
The safety of Cape Town: ¿Blank pistols?
¿A's with machete or gun? Typical phrase (take as a metaphor) among foreigners in South Africa with which to start a conversation. Something like working or studying southern version and some toast.
El Jem: The Roman Coliseum lost in the desert
El Jem is a luxury, sometimes forgotten, the traveler should expect a lover of history in the middle of the driest nothing. There is a beautiful city, and surrounded by countryside yet fascinante.Sin, it is a place touched by magic man.
First night in Cape Town mutant
I like to stare at the screen and imagine where he fled outputs. This time I did not want to change the destination. I wanted to come to Africa and I'm in Africa.
Change Raul jersey for two liters of petrol
If I've learned a few trips I've done before in the village is more lost most remote corners of a football shirt can get you out of trouble
