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Ethiopia, ten images

North shows its history with the high forehead, knowing that their kings were great and that his story is beautiful. The south is primtivo, their ancestral tribes are, frozen in time. The people of Ethiopia, the three times I was there, I found girls, rogue, generous, educated and too much weight in their eyes. There was a certain sadness, a field alive and quiet and a free cities.

byJavier Brandoli

3 January, 2015

The boy who saved me from the rain

The trip by Ethiopia motorcycle was being the opposite of what I had imagined. Instead of finding the desert, refugee camps, children with swollen tummies by hunger and high poverty, I found myself in a country of high mountains and green.

byAlicia Sornosa

26 August, 2014

Ethiopia: goodbye to a good man

Perhaps the most important lesson of this pudgy friend 63 years is the forcefulness with which one can speak quietly. We have not had in two months of route one discussion between the three. How would the, travel with you "are favors that never pay me". Goodbye friend, It was a pleasure to travel with such a good man.

byJavier Brandoli

7 May, 2014

Africa

In the darkness of a monastery of Lalibela

Wrapped in his white robes, men and women climbed the slope that led to San Gabriel in silence. White figures marked the meanderings of the path up to the horizon. The more timid, to the meet me, entornaban face, covered by the toga.

byContributors

12 March, 2014

Ethiopia: Ricardo Falls Coarasa (II)

And bag backpack his manuscript and tell him Yohanes that pose under the falls that drench us feebly. And then what subject I. And in a way I pay tribute to the honest words and texts well counted. And this book should come here because here was born.

byJavier Brandoli

4 February, 2014

Ethiopia: look at death in different country (In)

Among a pile of garbage where burning part crap thrown there were dogs, pigs, men and kids looking for something to put in the mouth. They put their hands or snouts in mountains of waste. Children wearing her bare feet. Only the barking was heard of some dogs. In the sky flying vultures and storks.

byJavier Brandoli

28 January, 2014

The story of the man who wanted to kill Mandela

Then, Guta asked his partner to be close the deal in a Church, before God (Ethiopian tradition that required to comply with agreed). "We went to the church and sealed the covenant before God that he would kill him and would not say anything spoken there".

byJavier Brandoli

8 December, 2013

Any street Africa

They were two minutes, nothing special, routine sequence and in that corner of the world passed the reality of make-up before our eyes. There is something hypnotic sway of people, the bustle with which Africa desnorta, aimlessly, without further horizons than a president less corrupt than the previous, a rainy season more lenient

byDaniel Landa

28 January, 2013

Ethiopia (II):Forgotten Tomb Pedro Páez

(...) After reaching a plateau, I admire the stunning views. The lake will be about 10 kilometers that extends over a succession of gentle hills and lush fertile in crops, forests and farms. Farmers and cows roam this idyllic horizon. This scenario is the closest thing I've ever seen the Garden of Eden (...) By Miguel Silvestre.

byMiquel Silvestre

12 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

Gondar: Africa's Camelot

At the foot of the Simien Mountains, Ethiopia holds in its bowels a legacy as valuable as unknown. Who would expect to be confronted by the silhouette of several medieval castles cut in the heart of Africa?

byRicardo Coarasa

19 November, 2010

Axum: The ancient obelisk stolen by Mussolini

In northern Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries on earth, blanket the city of Axum, What bitter irony, one of the main treasures of humanity: three obelisks of the fourth century and countless monolithic stelae embers of a great empire and disappeared.

byRicardo Coarasa

8 April, 2010

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