A journey through Africa

A journey through Africa: Javier Brandoli.

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The day you stop seeing the sea…

Everything is sea, as when under the beach and helped the fishermen to pull nets laying morning (something I do not do much for me as I approach stop pulling the net while they encourage me to continue). Groups of women and children for an hour dragging eternal network, weighing as the ocean and brings small fish are eaten by dozens of people who live near them without.

byJavier Brandoli

2 Oct., 2012

hippo

hippo

The African Macondo: agitators hippo queue

“Ahhhh. And how they get no rain?”, asked with some curiosity before hearing a response that if I had been given a hundred thousand opportunities to give it even had approached me. "Waving queues hippos with their hands, skyward, and prevent rain ", I emphatically explained.

byJavier Brandoli

25 September, 2012

The African Macondo: the sand-eating

"In the market for selling on sand 25 MZN (70 cents). They also soap and soup ". "And do you prefer the chicken or fish soup?”, asked wryly. "That's very expensive, I have no money "

byJavier Brandoli

18 September, 2012

The market for stolen Maputo

It's nine o'clock, I have not had coffee yet, and I just found out last night that I have stolen the rearview mirror and car headlights. It's nine in the morning and another guy threatens to fuck more plaque on your plate that formalizes robberies.

byJavier Brandoli

11 September, 2012

Life on the road

A giraffe crossing the road between cars. One of the young accelerated more than their legs and body plummeted on the asphalt in front of another vehicle. For a moment it seemed dead. His mother, while, nervosa is shaking the bushes

byJavier Brandoli

4 September, 2012

Hailstorm in Indian

A medio camino, suddenly, the sky was dull, the wind hit with more force and began unloading a fierce hailstorm. Unexpected time, que hacía años que allí no sucedía, and the horizon became an intense palette. The sea is green and the sky turned dark gray

byJavier Brandoli

20 August, 2012

Namibia Desert

Namibia Desert

Five stories from the deserts of Africa

Since I can only look north and start walking again to walk again on Africa and its deserts. Places where I have not been as Libya, say hides the most beautiful Sahara; Kenya and dry route to Lake Turkana and Sudan and peaceful life overlooking the Nile.

byJavier Brandoli

24 July, 2012

javier Brandoli

javier Brandoli

The false mythical lone traveler

Many returned days or months later with a veil in the stomach, disappointed to discover that they are not what they thought. Not bad, not think that's failing in the mirror; because without going to return had always lived while they were still going off. One must be very brave to dare to lose.

byJavier Brandoli

12 June, 2012

Illegal, arrested and deported to Malawi

We stopped to get cash at an ATM and get a police car which was down two officers, one armed with a rifle. They begin to look at our car and we understood we had a problem. A smiling educadísimo official, which there is armed, We are asked to accompany them to Police Station

byJavier Brandoli

6 June, 2012

Mozambique Island

Mozambique Island

Mozambique Island, the island lost in time

A small island three miles long by 400 meters wide. A small piece of land lost in the Indian Ocean that, however, is a World Heritage Site since 1991.

byJavier Brandoli

29 May, 2012

train mozambique

train mozambique

A train journey through Africa

In the freight cars go up the goods, in the passenger see people hanging near windows and runs to secure the sale. It is pure Africa. You see kids wearing from live chickens coming through the windows after brisk business.

byJavier Brandoli

22 May, 2012

Liwonde: the laughter of hyenas and canoe safari

And when we decided to go to sleep came the sound of hyenas. Their cry is singular, acute, as if floating in the air and never leave. Overwhelms and fascinates sleep listening to his wild and menacing laughter. Camping in the African Parks has a point of contact with the very special nature, as if to touch the beasts with their ears

byJavier Brandoli

15 May, 2012

Malawi Lake

Malawi Lake

Malawi: the lake of stars

I hear the voices of a dozens of people who sing, sing on the lake. Her voice has the sound of African songs, melancholy, sad. They sing with the stomach rather than the throat. I turn my eyes ahead, the sun disappears. One of the most beautiful sunsets I have referred in my life.

byJavier Brandoli

8 May, 2012

Malawi: the death of President, police corruption

We went to Malawi the day who had just died its corrupt president. Chronicle of a few hours where we were robbed at the border and tried in another policing. An uprising threatens the country's power struggle.

byJavier Brandoli

1 May, 2012

Tete: the washerwomen of the Zambezi

Contemplate a striking picture: dozens of women, some half-naked, wash their clothes and bodies in the river. They do the routine every morning he goes to a must, the washing of clothes and his body to the gaze of the absent other.

byJavier Brandoli

24 April, 2012

Gorongosa: the burden of elephants

The whole herd creates a perfect circle to protect their young. As if obeying a military order adopting a perfect figure of defense. It is one of the most beautiful moments I have lived in African safaris. Everything has a wild harmony.

byJavier Brandoli

17 April, 2012

Chong Oene: camping on a deserted beach

Suddenly some fishermen contemplate leaving the vegetation or the distance two women who collect shells and realize that nothing is empty at this location.

byJavier Brandoli

10 April, 2012

Amore and Misteria in Maputo

Maybe not the best time to teach that in the back were two other people, more when we found out later that at that time was one of the officers gun unholstering (amidst all the tension, was much, the situation was even comical)

byJavier Brandoli

3 April, 2012

Pothles Blyde River Canyon

Pothles Blyde River Canyon

South Africa: Leopard welcome

The Johannesburg airport sornisas, the calm of Graskop, the unexpected and brutal beauty of the Blyde River Canyon and the luck to see the big five in one day in Kruger. VaP. route begins ppor South Africa.

byJavier Brandoli

27 March, 2012

Kruger Park Buffalo

Kruger Park Buffalo

Running Route in South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi

Day 21 March begins the journey to prepare a route that in August we will discover the fascinating and unknown Mozambique. Also cross the South African Kruger and Lake Malawi. In April we will program and cost. !The adventure begins!

byJavier Brandoli

11 March, 2012

The traveler and the nostalgia (II y fin)

I look out the airplane window British leads me to Spain, after a stopover at Johannesburg. I am slowly losing the image of Table Mountain to be impossible to retain its shape. Symbolic image. Cape Town is over, just for now Africa.

byJavier Brandoli

16 January, 2012

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 ".

byJavier Brandoli

12 January, 2012

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.

byJavier Brandoli

28 December, 2011

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.

byJavier Brandoli

22 December, 2011

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