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Erg Chebbi Dunes: the home of the Berber

In southeastern Morocco, on the border with Algeria, is one of the doors of the Sahara, Berber land. It is without doubt one of the most beautiful places I've encountered on the planet. A perfect evening, sitting on the dunes. The photos speak for themselves.

byJavier Brandoli

6 April, 2011

Africa: the "city fish" shampoo

The answer, like everything else in the economy, is based on the relationship I have, would and could, universal law that divides the rest essentials. Much of Angola's population does not use toilet paper, expensive and imported article, lo que hace que el papel higiénico sea un producto de "lujo" priced for its economy would be equivalent to cleanse the back (pardon me) the Encyclopedia Espasa-Calpe.

byJavier Brandoli

18 March, 2011

South Africa Correspondent: goodbye to the sycophants of papo

(...) Correspondent work takes you away from the prominent papos sycophants who prowl the newsroom; of that market with the drool and news (...) of those who admire the amount of hours over the quality of the words; of pats on the shoulder when your subject is shaken by the social gatherings; of the miserable than ever tremble at the keyboard ...

byJavier Brandoli

11 March, 2011

Highgate: forgotten cemetery Karl Marx

On a hill, Victorian graves surrounded by other illustrious neighbors, lies the body of Karl Marx. In Highgate Cemetery, in London, a place of magic. Dense vegetation between sculpture and a bust tombs under which you read a historical phrase: "Trabajadores del mundo uniros".

byJavier Brandoli

1 March, 2011

South African Cinema: bites in consciousness

A child raped by boyfriend, having AIDS, his mother; a view of the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation (created to grant amnesty to all who will plead guilty after apartheid) that uncovers the brutal torture and betrayal at the time of the racist regime.

byJavier Brandoli

25 February, 2011

Sailing with Malaspina

"Del 30 July 1789 until 18 September 1794, the Spanish Navy officers Alejandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante y Guerra led an expedition around the world geopolitical ..." Two centuries later I got on the boat. A day with Malaespina.

byJavier Brandoli

18 February, 2011

The woman from my balcony

The woman from my balcony is just a story I see from my window. A woman, like so many here, living on the street, keeping your belongings in a culvert and waiting for her life consumed. Llevo un año mirando lo que hace "la mujer desde mi balcón".

byJavier Brandoli

11 February, 2011

A China, an Angolan, a South African… cardboard and rabbits

Cape Town is a city created the world remains, lives arrivals from afar, opposing cultures, Goodie, meaningless laughter, desires. It is the history of Angolan driver who wants to be millionaire, the synagogue, the Muslim Quarter and the smell of species.

byJavier Brandoli

4 February, 2011

South Africa: cigarette, theft and hugs

Back to walk down the street with guys who follow your trail asking you to give them something to justify their steps (are often hungry types, others with faces and, almost always, with serious alcohol problems); up to a new, empty bus because whites continue to use their cars and their minibus blacks ...

byJavier Brandoli

22 January, 2011

The fucking "evil of Africa"

Back to Africa. Maybe back to Africa unless all imaginable Africas. In my Africa, on your skin, There are bars in which fuses look, linen napkin restaurants and painted lines on roads. All that awaits me back in Cape Town: European complexion, however, observed a black soul.

byJavier Brandoli

15 January, 2011

Lausanne: Zeus has the Dream Team

The sneakers with Jesse Owen humbled Hitler; revive the basketball final in Los Angeles 84; Eric Moussambani bathing suit ... All exciting sports history, from classical Greece, is in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.

byJavier Brandoli

5 January, 2011

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.

byJavier Brandoli

26 December, 2010

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?

byJavier Brandoli

24 December, 2010

Housing

Housing

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 ...

byJavier Brandoli

21 December, 2010

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.

byJavier Brandoli

13 December, 2010

Dunnotar Castle

Dunnotar Castle

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

byJavier Brandoli

7 December, 2010

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

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2010

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?

byJavier Brandoli

29 November, 2010

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).

byJavier Brandoli

27 November, 2010

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.

byJavier Brandoli

25 November, 2010

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 ...

byJavier Brandoli

17 November, 2010

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.

byJavier Brandoli

17 November, 2010

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.

byJavier Brandoli

10 November, 2010

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.

byJavier Brandoli

4 November, 2010

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