The tribe of "La Roja"
[st] April 2013. A ball is bouncing lost Paradise Beach in Vilanculos. Mozambique. A group…
A journey through Africa
A journey through Africa: Javier Brandoli.
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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.
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.
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?
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.
Ruta VAP (IX): arrived on the island with no time
when I imagined this whole project not imagine traveling with eight people from the category of Victor Hugo, Amaia, Txarli, Rosa, Irene, Martin, Lino and Monica, Traveled with eight good people who want to share a dream, I was just one more, the writer of this text, and therefore I'm Javier, the ninth of this group who crossed Africa, Malaui y Mozambique.
Ruta VAP (VIII): sleep in the "worst" hotel in the world
Have water?, asked. “No, no water, "he said quietly as the two we lay on a plastic couch office whose ceiling had a crack that threatened to collapse on our heads.
Ruta VAP (VII): hauling time Malawi
In Malawi one has almost tempted to go back. Getting to the border, turn the car and walk it back down to understand. The country suffers from this evil that bleeds Africa is supporting their greedy leaders after its voracious colonies supported.
Ruta VAP (WE): the worst day of the trip
[st] We had almost called for trouble by announcing so many times that there was a route before Vilanculos and…
Ruta VAP (In): the beauty of the Gorongosa
Green grass onrushing clear water surrounded by land red at times reflected in your slides. It is surrounded by mature trees with branches laden wind. Along its shores and as far as the eye, are scattered hundreds of waterbuck, impalas, birds ... who stop to look at you with awe.
The fake virgin girls photo and King depraved
What else did the rest when you have everything you need to tell the story that everyone wants to hear: that of Africa's last absolute monarch and thousands of young half-naked to which he uses at will. The photograph, this photo, I already spoke for itself ...
Ruta VAP (IV): the grotesque military convoy
For weeks there was no civilian casualties and the army had put a military convoy vehicles we heard all kinds of stories. None resembled reality.
Ruta VAP (III): the flight of the flamingos
They saw octopus, garopas large, the coral sea a fund lost, foreshortened fish, The Nautilus, Nemo and niece Neptune second siren now converted into light some helmets resting on a deep rock. Anything is possible if you want to brush solitude in which the wind blows without disturbing the eyes.
Ruta VAP: la tercera vía
That night we go almost all the legendary Gil Vicente to hear a local band some cheer after the 1908, cool bar from Maputo, until and late hours. Back at the hotel, on the avenue 24 July, a roadblock trying to cash. Want money because Txarli not carry the passport. Play hold me until he sees that no note and let me go. 100 meters later we stop other agents again ...
Ruta Vap, South Africa: crear un grupo
We crossed the border two cars and ten people who had no doubt, had become a group that would route some tests to demonstrate their unity. You were one and that was to say goodbye weeks later in Nampula, without the singular hinder anyone. "We got the hardest", I thought as we headed to Maputo.
Great Migration: the greatest show of nature
Then, those in the mud out of the water and some babies retorceden looking for their mothers who did not cross. There's like a silence, a break, until suddenly a wildebeest, only one, starts running and drags behind him thousands of them to cross the waters again.
Serengeti: perfection and the “piedrocerontes”
I imagine the man coming to camp, by the fire, and explaining to all that he had seen 654 Rhinos, which are stones that calculation could cross until he returned to his hotel. Who cares? One has the feeling that in the Serengeti one has the right to see what he wants.
Soweto Country Club: a golf course in misery
In the door, when we're leaving, note that two of the caddies are burning drug on a foil. They do next to what must have been Guardhouse. Outside, the houses are glossy, brick and mortar, and some with a small garden. A little rusty sign in recuerda last we are in a Country Club Golf amid Soweto ...
Laetoli: the footsteps of Lucy's parents
The importance of the discovery, besides by date, is that raises questions about how it was the development of man. One theory is that brain growth was prompting the advancement and one that was walking on two feet and allow working with your hands. Laetoli is positioned in the second ...
For example, the Maasai
The Maasai do not bury their dead because they believe it hurts the sacred land. Die, put them in leather bags and leave the corpse out of town, away. At three months back to see what happened. If a hyena ate it is that it is a bad person. If you ate a vulture is that it is in paradise.
Tarangire: the path of the giant
The rainy season is ending and the whole landscape looks freshly hand painted with a fine brush. This looks like a park for people looking for calm, who have already traveled this continent and do not need the wonderful evidence of the large parks.
Tanzania y Mozambique, from the air
He must have a border indicate air when you've crossed a border. We could entertain us lie saying that the change is very noticeable. The new houses, roads, Crop, tones of water or any kind of idiocy that allows us to establish ourselves in the deception that is often reality eye.
Un dia en el Kazinga Channel nublado
Near Lake Edward and the cross next to a big town. We hear chants and a crowd of people arranged as in a circle. The song is growing stronger as our barge moves. At this distance we can see that the people are dressed for the occasion without knowing what time it is.
The book of a writer
Ricardo has both scholar as passionate about drinking all the beers to be offered in a bar at dawn. It is a love of literature, of rites, of historical feats of others. Él no es Stanleyo Mallory o Shakleton. He wanted to be, but was born 150 years later. They form part of their genetics, of its roots, their skin. Richard travels to meet, with the curiosity of a journalist, Writer, which launches the world understand and explain.
