"A Million Stones", Miquel Silvestre
Sentence:"A continent, Africa. A princess, the bike. A stone Milo. Tres mil estrellas".
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.
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Africa on a bike. One million rocks
An authentic account of a motorcycle trip through Africa. A book detailing the reality of the black continent beyond the postcards and luxury safaris. En "Un millón de piedras" chewing desert dust, they suffer the corrupt, sometimes, African bureaucracy and finished the night drinking with the strange bedfellows who always invents the way.
Tanganyika and the Queen of Africa
A little over a year since last time I traveled to Black Africa. And for a few days, I sailed on an old ferry, the "Liemba", on the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, one of the largest in Africa; lake area full of stories and legends ...
A lion at night
Javier Brandoli (South Africa) The night safaris are always special. Animals are the currency, a…
Namibia: Kolmanns- coup, the ghost town of diamonds
City, in the desert, is now a ghostly landscape. The once luxurious homes look like dunes go through doors and windows. The richness of the period in which flourished diamonds has given way to oblivion. There was installed the first x-ray machine in Africa, there was a casino, had air conditioning ...
The "poetry" of the battlefields
Graham Greene wrote that "over time, even the battlefields seem poetic places ". I've seen a few in the course of my travels, for historical inquiries inevitably push me towards them.
Seven months and one week after I return home
Summary of seven and a half months, several countries and many adventures in Africa
In a Himba village
The life of the Himba and tourists
Zanzibar: explorers home, slave nightmare
Zanzibar, the pearl of the Indian, essence of odor and taste, is a mask with two faces disparate. Starting point of the great explorers of the nineteenth century was also, for centuries, one of the nerve centers of the slave trade, the most terrible wound in the heart of Africa.
Street theater work on AIDS in Khayelitsha
Street Scenes: dance and theater against AIDS in South Africa. Javier Brandoli
"Exterminate all the savages"
"De acuerdo: You need to travel! But, Why just over here?”
El Jem: The Roman Coliseum lost in the desert
El Jem is a luxury, sometimes forgotten, the traveler should expect a lover of history in the middle of the driest nothing. There is a beautiful city, and surrounded by countryside yet fascinante.Sin, it is a place touched by magic man.
