The nostalgia of the traveler (Part I)
You see your life pass, Cape Town was because my life, dim. Nostalgic things that resolves with a practical "and mind you that balls, all that is past ".
A Place in the World
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Waterfront: a tourist complexes bobo
(...) It's not my place or, I now understand, ceases to be. It's just a good place for a drink without thinking that in Africa the luxury malls are prepared for the rich or imbecility tourists. Remove bias is important to travel and sometimes unfair classism and falsely exercised looking up (...) Por Javier Brandoli.
Cape Town: life at low cost
Many who come to this beautiful city just sense the difference, but they never behold and believe to go visiting a corner of the first world beggars dotted invisible leaving sewers, converted into a dance hungry zombies and alcohol. They come from poverty in the slums of the low cost of living is, always at risk ... Por Javier Brandoli.
Trujillo: the birthplace of the conquistador bastard
No one knew then or know it at the rest of his days, but at that moment began perhaps the greatest epic man who has made
The Bazaruto Archipelago: the brutal beauty of a goodbye
(...) Azura transports its wealthy clients, Harrison Ford had to stay, by helicopter from the airport. How does one cross the globe to sleep in a place or are not willing to walk its streets and its waters? (...) Por Javier Brandoli.
Vilanculos: malaria and the home of artisans
"Sandy ha pasado más de 30 times since he decided in malaria 1999 come and live with your partner, Snowy, a Vilanculos, a natural paradise where the buzz of a mosquito can mean loss of life"
The strange story of a normal day in Africa
A workshop between chickens and debris; un banco con entradas para "ricos" y "pobres"; un zimbabuense que se cruzó la frontera con sus caballos a Mozambique huyendo de la "guerra"; a bicycle hanging from the fish; a road impassable; an eternal corner ... A day in Vilanculos.
Vilanculos: dismissed in paradise
While waiting in the sun for someone to come to our rescue and we saw happen to Mozambicans who walk, Like most African, in the middle of nowhere doing nothing other, get a truck from the hotel. One can already sense that it must be a special place a place that stands for a way impossible
Rascafría: the bridge of forgiveness and the house of the hanged
And is that for those with at least three votes against innocent, the next destination was waiting a mile above, towards the port of Boundaries: the House of Gallows. Death or life depending on the distributers of Justice decided that the prisoner was to turn his steps to the right or left.
The five best sunsets in the world
What are the best sunsets on the planet? Where can seen the best of the sun gear? Here are our five proposals. What are your?
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
