A journey through Africa

A journey through Africa: Javier Brandoli.

216 articles

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

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

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

Seven months and one week after I return home

Summary of seven and a half months, several countries and many adventures in Africa

byJavier Brandoli

21 Oct., 2010

Uganda: with chimpanzees in the jungle wild

The Kibale forest hides one of the last strongholds of wild chimpanzees. Follow the thick tropical vegetation is an unforgettable experience. Her screams, the jumps between the branches and almost human behavior make this place something magical.

byJavier Brandoli

15 Oct., 2010

Uganda: the encounter with the "green" Nile

Playing the Nile is a special experience for the traveler. His wild in Murchison Falls leap; his calm millennial against Paraa Safari Lodge. Uganda is a country of green landscape, red dirt roads, dense clouds skies. A fascinating place.

byJavier Brandoli

12 Oct., 2010

Decadent city and the Masai from the beach

Everything in Zanzibar is pleasing to the senses. Lovely people and conversations with them anecdotes accumulate. Two weeks on this island, including aircraft, can be introduced into the environment of the 1.200 EUR. Just avoid the luxury hotels.

byJavier Brandoli

7 Oct., 2010

Zanzibar: smiles smell of cloves

The earliest sunsets of the tropics are yellow and red. The nights are spent in restaurants lit with torches and glasses are taken from the deck chairs

byJavier Brandoli

4 Oct., 2010

Chitambo: dust and dry leaves cover the heart of Livingstone

Mi primer post en Zambia lo titulé "buscando a David Livingstone". Today I am, finally, with its surprising and forgotten grave. A magical place, loaded with symbolism and literary images.

byJavier Brandoli

26 September, 2010

Kafue National Park: Leopard failure

Before beginning the search for the heart of Livingstone tried to see the leopard, an animal that eludes me for months. In the Kafue Park, en Zambia, assemble all devices to achieve the expected meeting.

byJavier Brandoli

19 September, 2010

Royal Zambezi Lodge: Is the best hotel in my life?

Nights in a room without water under the spell of a unique hotel. In the Lower Zambezi as never enjoyed the lush African Nature.

byJavier Brandoli

16 September, 2010

Lusaka: the city that smells of dust, soulless

Lusaka is a city without a soul, dry, rarefied atmosphere and face. A stopping place for travelers who are African route

byJavier Brandoli

9 September, 2010

Zambia: looking for Livingstone

I crossed the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia walking. The taxi left me across the river and from there more than two miles, after crossing the bridge between the two countries, to leg and vein entering Africa.

byJavier Brandoli

6 September, 2010

A journey through Africa

7.200 miles after, Victoria Falls

7.200 miles after, Victoria Falls. The roar of the water can be heard from afar, as a warning that the place was chiseled only for some chosen. The smoke makes up the water near the horizon. A thick layer of vegetation prevents tripping eyes until the statue of the first European to set foot on this land: David Livingstone shows the way to the wild water.

byJavier Brandoli

2 September, 2010

Okavango: boats on the sand

The desert swallowed by the water. The pleasure of listening to hiccups hidden in the blue. Pure nature. Nights candle. El Okavango.

byJavier Brandoli

29 August, 2010

Etosha: wildlife widescreen

Etosha is an explosion of animal life of the African. An elephant that cuts you step; a rhino is the elusive or jackal, dying, rummaging through trash camping.

byJavier Brandoli

19 August, 2010

Himbas: bar, a town and a football match

After crossing Skeleton Coast, a long desert that ends at the foot of a sea that has left behind the bodies of ships along the coast, we arrived at Camp ongong.

byJavier Brandoli

17 August, 2010

The Aserejé and sandstorm

Africa, sometimes, I despair. It gives and takes away at will. The timetables are fiction and commitments made with smiles that are not always met. These things travel, luckily, are usually arranged. ¿Point?

byJavier Brandoli

13 August, 2010

The game of billiards and the Great Fish River Canyon

It was not easy to leave South Africa, Police were playing ball, border risks, and wanted me to pay a fine because I had expired visa. "Call your boss, 'I said, but that makes it clear that I have permission to 15 de septiembre ". The guy must have thought I was going to put heavy and it was easier estamparme the seal and I lost in the desert of Namibia. We leave.

byJavier Brandoli

9 August, 2010

At the gates of Namibia

My last look at Cape Town, real, from the Table View, how my mood at that moment: fog, that you could not see the city across the bay, and a sunken ship, and corroded iron, before my eyes

byJavier Brandoli

5 August, 2010

Gracias/Thank you

Now tomorrow I leave Cape Town, after four and a half months of a wonderful life, I would like to thank some people that I've come across and that have been, forever, me.

byJavier Brandoli

31 July, 2010

Not refrain from reading wine lovers

I have the feeling that when you leave this country next August 6, on the border with Namibia, will start a few hectares of vineyards that are useless. My passion for wine, that comes from afar, just had to stumble on my last week in Cape Town where he was looking for: Wine tastings at three euros!

byJavier Brandoli

27 July, 2010

A change in the look

The grand finale are never easy. The World Cup in South Africa left a trail of nostalgia, new calm. The streets were emptied of people, Environment, of wild nights and returned, in part, Shadows.

byJavier Brandoli

23 July, 2010

"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