Africa

Africa is perhaps the most disconcerting place in the world. A continent of many faces to which you travel to the past tries to put face, to tell your story.

60 articles

The greed and dreams

This conversation, cases literal, I had it yesterday with Acasio, a co-worker who was taking some pictures for the new hotel website. Married, has two daughters. Not enough money. Walk three hours every day to come to work. The whole conversation started because we talked about dreams.

byJavier Brandoli

18 December, 2012

Villas do Indian

Villas do Indian

40 years: water in the sink

The distance is in my mind time and time has taught me that I'm confused with my own distances. Now that today I am 40 years, that figure terrifying pushing some to bungee jumping in the sink, I am more than ever strokes on the map. More vitally ordered and disordered than ever, that in all my virtues hide my main defects.

byJavier Brandoli

11 December, 2012

Lebolo: The "purchase" of a woman

"I bought a kid, a suit with shoes and tie for Father, a suit with sneakers for mother, one case of soda, a case of beer, five liters of wine, two liters of Nipa (local firewater), 5 Rolling snuff packages, 500 MZN (15 EUR) and six transport guests (70 meticais per person)”

byJavier Brandoli

4 December, 2012

A photo

Every day I have to put forward a picture in this magazine and I guess surprise many of my readers from as far. Every day I walk through a world of markets that smells of dried fish and a strange life which spreads before me.

byJavier Brandoli

13 November, 2012

Benin: nonreturn door

The Door of No Return is one of those places that transmits more by suggesting that at showing, where the silences are loud and shake until the last recesses of the soul. You can almost hear cries million captives in the waves, pleas sent as messages in bottles lost in the ocean.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

9 November, 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

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

Malawi: Encounters of water and fire

If you want to know more about Lake Malawi recommend the article by Javier Brandoli: Malawi: the lake of stars. If you want to know more VaP. organized trip that includes a visit to the Kruger Park, pinchad here!

2 July, 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

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

Burkina Faso: Dafra sacred catfish

The scene is indescribable. All around the rocks and hanging bloodstained fur hundreds of goats, cows and a horse, be scattered walking endless chicken feathers like a foam party they were, the smell of death pervades every corner of the lake.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

5 February, 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

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

Camel Road Gates Sahara

"Llevamos 4 running days. Not hot, Contrary to what most thought. The light reverberates on mica lining the road, where more than one occasion the rounded forms of the abundant fossils or arrowheads are more unreal the way in which we operate under the slow pace of camels, as in a dream"

byJuan Ramon Morales

5 December, 2011

Ethiopia (In): in search of Spanish who discovered the sources of the Blue Nile

Children are behind the rider meowing "yuiyuiyui"; yui means foreign. All reach out asking for money. The panhandling becomes suffocating. It is certainly worse than in any other African country that has been. As for the legend that throw stones, true. Some of these beggars are children and there are also skillful slingers to be careful.

byMiquel Silvestre

2 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

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

Javier Reverte trips

Africa and childhood dreams

Who has not dreamed of in childhood to be an explorer and with practicing the profession of white hunter? At least, in my generation was common, when kids played in organizing expeditions of exploration and hunting items in search of big game, usually, course, in an imaginary Africa that we dreamed about desolate fields Navalcarnero, the place where I spent my summers.

byJavier Reverte

13 August, 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

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

Agenda VAP

Miquel Silvestre presents his book in Barcelona

All travel lovers and travel books have an appointment this week in Barcelona.…

byRicardo Coarasa

18 March, 2011

Africa: the "city fish" shampoo

The answer, like everything else in the economy, is based on the relationship I have, would and could, universal law that divides the rest essentials. Much of Angola's population does not use toilet paper, expensive and imported article, lo que hace que el papel higiénico sea un producto de "lujo" priced for its economy would be equivalent to cleanse the back (pardon me) the Encyclopedia Espasa-Calpe.

byJavier Brandoli

18 March, 2011

Riders for health: African Motorcycle

Solidarity with the Third World poses a risk: that its practical application in the field of adventurers trick is to escape the demands of work and social First. In Africa, Official solidarity white donors tend to travel in Toyota Land Cruiser.

byMiquel Silvestre

26 January, 2011

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