Seven months and one week after I return home
Summary of seven and a half months, several countries and many adventures in Africa
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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.
Katmandu: a ghost in the night
Nepal, one o'clock. The plane that brought us out of China, of which we say goodbye…
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.
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.
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
Lhasa: the ancient Forbidden City in Tibet
"I have for the most happy who ever lived the days when, miserable with my pack on shoulder, wandered over hill and dale in the wonderful land of snow ". Sometimes, one sentence is enough to cross half the world in search of a dream landscapes. The traveler, while flying from Kathmandu to Lhasa, Tibet's capital, continues to spin these words of Alexandra David-Neel, the first European woman who managed to enter the Forbidden City, disguised as a beggar, in the distant 1924.
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.
No to immigration law in Florida
Normally politics matters little to me and more when it is that of a country that is not the…
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
If it costs less than $10 and not find it in the street 8, is that there
The Street 8 of Miami, between Douglas Road to Brickell Avenue, is probably, after the lights…
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.
Old Panama: the slaughter of the English privateers
Panama is, in a corner of the first Spanish city to be built in the Pacific (now part of the outskirts of the city), a symbol of the harshness with which the English pirates attacked the Spanish overseas possessions.
Portsmouth: the port that sent the D-Day heroes
Portsmouth is the port city where transport ships sail full of 4.000 landing craft, shipyard where it all began, the port where thousands of men consumed their last hours of life that 6 June 1944 before heading to the heart of Europe under the Nazi.
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.
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.
Churros Spanish flavor in the heart of Cuban Miami
And it is that I was in one of those, of homesickness and memories of my winters…
“Shangri-La”: the place of immortal men
It is a magical and mysterious territory, it was like before the Trojan Hector and Achilles, or the underwater kingdom of Atlantis
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?
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.
