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Simojovel: the spots of amber

The Chinese came one morning three years ago and changed everything.. They came to buy the pure amber, the one without spots. Prices have increased tenfold and now local artisans can no longer buy that amber, we can't pay it.

byJavier Brandoli

20 May, 2015

Africa
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A journey through Africa

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

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