Africa

Live the adventure of Africa. Javier Reverte and Javier Brandoli among others take you to the black continent, from deserts to jungles. We have distilled for you the spell of Africa.

399 articles

Ishak: "It's still spring, the revolution lives on

Topara chance made me George Ishak, political founder of Kifaya, movement in 2004 He paved the way for the Revolution. broke, somehow, the culture of fear of getting the right to demonstrate under the Emergency Law and the right to elect president.

byMaria Ferreira

5 June, 2014

And 25.000 miles after… The end came

we watched the sea, that sways violent L`Agulhas, in search of nonexistent shadows of the horizon. And understanding they were not, there no corners, We had understood that the way and we had reached our destination. And we feel the emotion of the child and dreaming of the adult who makes their dreams come true. We had done, were there.

byJavier Brandoli

2 June, 2014

Elections in Egypt: the retransmitted truth

It's exhausting trying to find something real. I look at the pictures and see the joy of the people and I think happiness is sustained by the desire to be happy, not by the facts.

byMaria Ferreira

27 May, 2014

The best sunset I saw in Africa

It was a new hotel, strainer, the 15 the fourth euros, I had a restaurant with big bows on chairs and shiny boxes on the parking. But, We soon discovered that our room smelled of sewage. Clean hole in the floor which was the toilet gave off an odor that filled the small room, almost giving arcades.

byJavier Brandoli

26 May, 2014

Francis: the hero betrayed by his memory

You have 95 years, a white mustache that makes you look like a wise mouse, a smile that lights up the world a thousand times and an early Alzheimer's that sometimes makes him forget that he is a hero, and turns him into a little boy who pees on himself

byMaria Ferreira

21 May, 2014

Southern Ethiopia: Tribe looks dead

And days later went down to Konso and we met by chance with samai. We were seated at a rustic bar when they appeared spectra as I had never contemplated. No man nor beast they seemed, seemed clay molds made little shade. And all the people of Konso began to surround them and watch as you look at the ghosts.

byJavier Brandoli

13 May, 2014

Ethiopia: goodbye to a good man

Perhaps the most important lesson of this pudgy friend 63 years is the forcefulness with which one can speak quietly. We have not had in two months of route one discussion between the three. How would the, travel with you "are favors that never pay me". Goodbye friend, It was a pleasure to travel with such a good man.

byJavier Brandoli

7 May, 2014

¡¡Kilimanjaro, Hakuna Matata!! (part 2)

During the long night I checked the intermittency of my level of concentration with an improvised mantra: "I'm powerful, very powerful, do not fatigue rules, do not govern ". The mind went into a trance, and she lays with her.

byNacho Melero

6 May, 2014

¡¡Kilimanjaro, Hakuna Matata!! (part 1)

Reconozco que todo empezó con la segunda línea "rosa" a predictor. A woman awash in happiness, a man locked in uncertainty, and a gynecologist witness. "Laura, Mario is on his way and. Now I ask you to let me climb Kilimanjaro"

byNacho Melero

5 May, 2014

VaP route to Okavango: nine friends travel to Africa

We must be very lucky, always on expeditions VAP we said goodbye with hugs sincere. Then, when they go we were stunned and in return you look back thinking that this car is not mine. Somehow it costs continue traveling without them, without us.

byJavier Brandoli

1 May, 2014

"in dust and rain

José Luis Feliu decided to bring your camera to the corners of the world, on a two-year journey during which produced the documentary series A World Apart. We present the melting pot of emotions that form the exhibition "Everything is in the world", a collection of photographs that take us away from the city to put us walk the road, in symbolic contexts or isolated spots. A serene look that will take us to the ends of the planet.

byvap

28 April, 2014

Africa

Heroes of the Coptic Hospital

I would not save anyone because there is no one to save. Started an NGO wanting to be a hero and now just want to be happy, less so happy as people who wanted to help.

byContributors

23 April, 2014

Sudan: the world we all dream

Two kilometers later we were in one of those places that you never arrive and when you arrive you never forget. Those ruins of the Meroitic kingdom, continuator of the kingdom of Napata, they seem to have their roots in the desert sands that climb their rocks. Its 2300 years of life turned them into stone, in eagle, tree, lie or maybe in torch.

byJavier Brandoli

22 April, 2014

There were people live in Wadi Halfa

There was a smell of sewage and drainage of misery. He had rotted remains of animals and huge crows flying over our heads with their throats screaming arid clouds. There was again a slow night and the air so thick that you used to block their ears.

byJavier Brandoli

15 April, 2014

To the disappointing and beautiful Egypt

We went with the feeling of seeing a beautiful earth to be pieces that deserves a fresh start, today he does not deserve his inheritance (...) That morning on the pier of the boat that would take us to Sudan were thinking about all this while watching fights and beats by carts loaded, to earn money, more life to lose.

byJavier Brandoli

8 April, 2014

The man who invented women

And Abdul wrapped canvas, He delivered him and asked to change a single thing: "I give you this canvas with a unique condition, if you see somewhere you tell this woman that I'm looking for. You have to promise me you'll do "

byJavier Brandoli

1 April, 2014

In lands gumuz

For centuries, the rases (old Ethiopian war lords) They stocked up on these lands slave, paying the eternal distrust of gumuz against their compatriots in the altiplano, led by amara (the dominant ethnic group in the country), a los que se refieren como "rojos" (for your skin clearer).

byRicardo Coarasa

28 March, 2014

The condemnation of the Cairo

We won with the tomb of Tutankhamen in the Egyptian Museum and we lost the military machine guns cleaned their tanks at the entrance. Always on alert, always ready to go. We won a regular meal in a nice part of the mighty Nile and we lost an unpleasant secret police control where we smelled up our wallets in search of drugs.

byJavier Brandoli

25 March, 2014

Zambezi: Eden browse

A canoe enough to traverse fangs. That was the plan, browse the most populous river beasts in the world, paddling between hippos and stealthily approached the buffalo and crocodiles. Africa live at water gives the traveler a sense of harmony tense, the pleasure of the wild.

byDaniel Landa

24 March, 2014

Cargo from Turkey trip to Egypt

We could not communicate with them almost, none spoke a word of English. Something that stretched around the boat and what we were accustomed. When we asked was for us Haifa and answered five, eight or one hundred, which it depended on believing that we questioned fingers in my hand or trucks that fit on the boat.

byJavier Brandoli

18 March, 2014

Africa

In the darkness of a monastery of Lalibela

Wrapped in his white robes, men and women climbed the slope that led to San Gabriel in silence. White figures marked the meanderings of the path up to the horizon. The more timid, to the meet me, entornaban face, covered by the toga.

byContributors

12 March, 2014

Skeleton Coast: the desert against the sea

Advertised as advertised pirates: with a pair of warm and skull. Well presented one of the least natural parks in Africa. The coast of Namibia does not want intruders because nature pound their own battle of sand and water.

byDaniel Landa

24 February, 2014

Eastbound, rumba to about

One November afternoon my friend Victor Hugo showed up at my house and told me about Maputo map. I said exactly: "In my house Azores years I have hung a map in which I pointed out some routes I wanted to do for the world. It is time to make the first.

byJavier Brandoli

11 February, 2014

Travel in company

I traveled alone a few times and have enjoyed spontaneous meetings, nights are fun and the feeling of freedom that produces a map without consensus. But I've also stumbled irretrievably with the boredom of an empty hostel, a dumb way or beer friendless.

byDaniel Landa

10 February, 2014

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