A journey through Africa

A journey through Africa: Javier Brandoli.

216 articles

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.

byJavier Brandoli

15 December, 2011

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"

byJavier Brandoli

9 December, 2011

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.

byJavier Brandoli

29 November, 2011

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

byJavier Brandoli

22 November, 2011

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.

byJavier Brandoli

15 November, 2011

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"

byJavier Brandoli

8 November, 2011

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.

byJavier Brandoli

2 November, 2011

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.

byJavier Brandoli

24 Oct., 2011

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.

byJavier Brandoli

17 Oct., 2011

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.

byJavier Brandoli

7 Oct., 2011

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.

byJavier Brandoli

28 September, 2011

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.

byJavier Brandoli

26 September, 2011

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.

byJavier Brandoli

15 September, 2011

The hotel of the trees and the words

He threw earth to control the wind, loaded his gun and looked not meet me surrounded by pachyderms. In the jungle, the market, without defenses, and controlling the rustling of leaves that were on the floor carpet. Africa.

byJavier Brandoli

8 September, 2011

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.

byJavier Brandoli

1 September, 2011

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 ...

byJavier Brandoli

26 August, 2011

Three week visit to Zimbabwe

(...) sail on Lake Kariba and sleep three nights on their, I hope, calm waters; and I'll get to the mountains of Nyanga park where tumbling water see you again, this time at the falls Mutarazi (...), porJavier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

29 July, 2011

Sport in South African townships

...Only a few used condoms with the band, in the grass, remember that we are in territory fucked. The rest is an installation of the first set in a third zone. Langa is one of those neighborhoods where the salads are dressed with oil from the car..

byJavier Brandoli

22 July, 2011

Epupa Falls: the water of the tribe of mud

It is without doubt one of the nicest places I've gone for Africa. North of Namibia, difficult to access, there are some spectacular waterfalls. Next to them the primitive tribe of the Himba and their ancient customs that are sold to the dollar. A fascinating world.

byJavier Brandoli

21 July, 2011

The story of a hero in the Republic Center- African

A Spanish doctor who was left alone while the rest fled by the arrival of the guerrilla. One night healing people and seeing how they killed. He saved dozens of lives. Passed fear, very afraid, but decided not to leave. The story of a hero.

byJavier Brandoli

15 July, 2011

Memories of the World Cup in South Africa

The World Cup is in my heart the night that after the Spain-Portugal ended up at the Cuban bar in Cape Town watching an average Spanish team got drunk at five o'clock surrounded by ladies of paid and unpaid.

byJavier Brandoli

7 July, 2011

Three days with the "pure" Afrikaner

"So I grew, thinking it was impossible to talk to her until after my grandmother died and came back to South Africa knew other English-speaking, just refused to use. He hated the English and everything having to do with them."

byJavier Brandoli

1 July, 2011

A journey through Africa

The “Zip Zap Circus” project

Clarification on the end of the project to help Zip Zap Circus. There is nothing shady, there is a communication. Good luck to this beautiful and fascinating children program.

byJavier Brandoli

26 June, 2011

Mozambique: The dilemma of corruption in African cooperation

Nothing in this post a fascinating story of my trip. There is a special night where I heard many voices that narrate here. I was used to learn a lot, I hope that you would also serve. He told about it so unworthy of a toll as necessary, as nauseating as essential. A dead end? By Javier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

17 June, 2011

"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	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