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The true story of Invictus

The famous Nelson Mandela text delivery captain of the South African rugby, Francois Pienaar, is the poem Invictus, which gives the film its name, but a fragment of a speech by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt who performed at the Sorbonne in Paris

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

Rolihlahla Mandela: pulling the branch of a tree

What would Mandela when he thought his life perhaps he was locked up this time in the plot of a hospital? Who and what does Mandela for South Africans? Can this crazy and impossible country without her figure? I speak of my impressions. This time I talk about my life in South Africa, I say as I understand Rolihlahla.

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

"When we hear talk Madiba"

A chant sung in Zulu by hundreds of people who lament sounds, to victory in defeat, South Africa too used to losing gaining. The street is a people boil. Hundreds of people watching, dance, sing, photograph, pray, callan.

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

Racism in South Africa: the moral of the zebra and giraffe

I landed in South Africa with racist trial done beforehand and making me an easy composition of place I would make things easier to build relationships: Blacks, noncriminal, Whites are good and very bad (...). Por Javier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

Johannesburg: City of Miracles

No place amazes me more than this: for his cruelty coal and gold color, for his last race with sticks and forgiveness unexplained. A South African fatalism me I think its virtue: there is no country in the world that can boast of living so well with tears.

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

The votes from the toilet

South Africa is built for the poorest outdoor communal toilets, unprotected, that degrade the dignity of persons. Many clubs Police, riots in the streets, dozens of covers of newspapers and elections. La democracia y la de hand tank

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

Tsavo: Elephants Warhol

Enter a national park and the first thing you find to be elephants red is like arriving five minutes late to a game of your favorite team and see on the scoreboard already wins 3-0. From there, It is very difficult to keep the bar.

byRicardo Coarasa

29 November, 2013

Today should be in Central African Republic

Excuse this time not describe anything. Who wants to read it ...

byJavier Brandoli

26 November, 2013

Amboseli: Revenge of the Kilimanjaro

Amboseli has a gift. Waking up every day in the lap of Kilimanjaro, the roof of Africa, is the gift that nature has blessed you. A gift and a paradox. It is curious that the main attraction of the second most visited park in Kenya, after the renowned Masai Mara, you get up in the land of Tanzania, the neighboring country.

byRicardo Coarasa

22 November, 2013

Lamido endless copulation, the elder 120 years

[st] "Of course it's easy, There is only Allah and you want to help a little ",…

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

20 November, 2013

The tribe of "La Roja"

[st] April 2013. A ball is bouncing lost Paradise Beach in Vilanculos. Mozambique. A group…

byJavier Brandoli

19 November, 2013

In the cradle of Patagonia

I looked at that plateau. I could not believe that there had been born in Patagonia. Sure ... I owe an explanation to the reader. Patagonia was born there but the myth of Patagonia as a wild and mysterious. I was in Puerto San Julian in the search, as always, of stories, anecdotes and wild. There, against the infinite blue of the Atlantic, are given both: history and nature.

byGerardo Bartolomé

16 November, 2013

Two hours in Amsterdam

Aterricé and Amsterdam, after two weeks in Kenya, with a piece of my heart still wandering the savannah, with Masai dirt on the sole of my shoes...

byRicardo Coarasa

14 November, 2013

Photo Safari Masai Mara by

The Masai Mara is the park most recorded and photographed Africa. VAP photos we present the fruit three-day safari in this nature reserve. Enough said.

byJavier Brandoli

12 November, 2013

Vasa: the redemption of a fiasco

I have always been more interested in the trail that a defeat leaves than that of a triumph.. A loser has more backrooms and is lavish in edges. Therefore, the story of a ship launched with salutes of honor that sinks on its first voyage, without even leaving the port, it aroused sympathy in me.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 November, 2013

Qandil Camp: walk free by Masai Mara

ntonces hear crisp and close the howl of a hyena. He seems to be behind the wooden fence that protects me. I listen laughter disturbing the mammal. I stop one second, I smile. I am passionate about the African wild. There, in Kandili it is, real, open, sincere. I close the tap and now I hear sounds in plural, are several.

byJavier Brandoli

6 November, 2013

The spectacle of poverty: come and see

Poverty has become a commodity, Gentlemen. Perhaps to blame the false belief that misery is true, absolute. But even that: Now the misery is manipulated and makeup, becoming increasingly melodramatic dyes.

byMaria Ferreira

5 November, 2013

Lago Nakuru: the fault of Robert Redford

Las imágenes de la avioneta de Robert Redford planeando sobre las aguas del lago en "Memorias de África" have meant the best tourist promotion you can imagine.

byRicardo Coarasa

1 November, 2013

From Havana to Santiago: flood, and revolution are

Talking about eastern Cuba is talking about colonization (This is where Columbus appeared for the first time), of resistance and independence, economic and cultural development, policy, of revolution and, finally, History. A trip to Santiago feeds all that.

byDiego Cobo

31 Oct., 2013

Immoral bribe to cure malaria

Cover, we gave him 200 MZN (5 EUR). I felt terrible. I'm ethically against all such arrangements fucking destroy this land. What to do? How to play the cards in a world without rules?

byJavier Brandoli

29 Oct., 2013

Naivasha: the voracious lake Rift

The rainy season had been prolific and Naivasha had an exultant look. A good stretch of the shore was flooded and suddenly was surprising to navigate between wooden fences, lampposts, palafitos wells and lost in the mangroves.

byRicardo Coarasa

25 Oct., 2013

Chickpeas and pumps in the old Colombo

From 1983 a 2009 attacks, car bombs and suicide girls were the daily norm. And with them a feeling of generalized fear. Everything in town was arrested. Everything? Not. In a small open an old tradition remained oblivious to the fear and prudence of that time; Sunday Galle Face Green.

byAlex Zurdo

23 Oct., 2013

Ruta VAP (X): the opinion of travelers

All I have narrated VaP. route I, Javier Brandoli, for nine post. It was from my perception from where the journey has been told, trying to reflect what they lived. Today, to put the finishing touch to this beautiful adventure, they are, my fellow, those who take the word.

byJavier Brandoli

22 Oct., 2013

Ouagadogou and shooting stars

The driver brakes suddenly, all senses alert. Curfew, curfew!, screams as he turns. But what makes? The rumor sounds dangerously close and I can now identify the noise Shots!

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

16 Oct., 2013

Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
Of the ruins of the empires: Asia's adjustment with European colonialism	9,45/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,40/10
"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
"Pilgrims of beauty": Italy and Greece Bacanal	9,20/10
"Travel with Charley": Raw portrait of the US 60	9,05/10
Winter notes on summer impressions: Dostoevsky in front of the mirror	8,90/10
The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
Strengthen the foundation: Africa raises its voice	8,15/10
My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country	6,25/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10

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