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To the disappointing and beautiful Egypt

We went with the feeling of seeing a beautiful earth to be pieces that deserves a fresh start, today he does not deserve his inheritance (...) That morning on the pier of the boat that would take us to Sudan were thinking about all this while watching fights and beats by carts loaded, to earn money, more life to lose.

byJavier Brandoli

8 April, 2014

Johannesburg: City of Miracles

No place amazes me more than this: for his cruelty coal and gold color, for his last race with sticks and forgiveness unexplained. A South African fatalism me I think its virtue: there is no country in the world that can boast of living so well with tears.

byJavier Brandoli

5 December, 2013

Ruta VAP (VIII): sleep in the "worst" hotel in the world

Have water?, asked. “No, no water, "he said quietly as the two we lay on a plastic couch office whose ceiling had a crack that threatened to collapse on our heads.

byJavier Brandoli

8 Oct., 2013

Ruta VAP (WE): the worst day of the trip

[st] We had almost called for trouble by announcing so many times that there was a route before Vilanculos and…

byJavier Brandoli

24 September, 2013

Villas do Indian: the prettiest tent sea

The site is cute, very pretty, carefully detailed rooms, excellent food restaurant and a pool and sea clear and warm water. But what I like is that I realized that the only rule that was imposed on me own and it was written: "Bother you in", said in a sign that no one painted.

byJavier Brandoli

1 May, 2013

Philippines: story without a moral

I would like to thank the weirdo guy not named Nilson. And it often, a setback leads to an infinitely better than what we had planned. And lying on a beach tan paradise was a good plan, but being adopted by a Filipino family was infinitely better. Thanks how is your name.

byOlga Moya

17 April, 2013

Jodhpur, India: the land of death

Then, come to my ears musical notes and a voice begins to sing. A few feet away from me a young, only child, wearing a traditional costume plays dirulba, a stringed instrument. He is accompanied by a letter that looks like a lament or, at least, gave me melancholy.

byEduardo De Winter

7 April, 2013

The forests of the legendary quetzal

The scenery was out of place. The mountains seemed painted a dark green and ghostly mist swayed between alpine looking houses. We rescued the suitcase with clothes that fit an autumn nonexistent in the rest of the Caribbean countries.

byDaniel Landa

11 February, 2013

Alaska: to around motorcycle history

It is a moment that can be worth a life, that justifies all the efforts and sufferings. I realize that this is the best ending I could have my trip, I'd rather have them come to conclude the REO as a hermit. Here and now are the true explorers who have come to seek.

byMiquel Silvestre

16 January, 2013

Getting to Africa: Niger

er the hippos that are in the Niger River on the outskirts of the city? Ugh complicated, gasoline has hiked, I can not get a picture 100 EUR! On the brink of insanity, faltered, I beg leave cockroaches company not too greedy and wishing me a good firing stroke.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

11 January, 2013

Malawi: the lake of stars

I hear the voices of a dozens of people who sing, sing on the lake. Her voice has the sound of African songs, melancholy, sad. They sing with the stomach rather than the throat. I turn my eyes ahead, the sun disappears. One of the most beautiful sunsets I have referred in my life.

byJavier Brandoli

8 May, 2012

Amore and Misteria in Maputo

Maybe not the best time to teach that in the back were two other people, more when we found out later that at that time was one of the officers gun unholstering (amidst all the tension, was much, the situation was even comical)

byJavier Brandoli

3 April, 2012

The Bazaruto Archipelago: the brutal beauty of a goodbye

(...) Azura transports its wealthy clients, Harrison Ford had to stay, by helicopter from the airport. How does one cross the globe to sleep in a place or are not willing to walk its streets and its waters? (...) Por Javier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

15 December, 2011

Great Zimbabwe: the ruins of Black Africa

(...) Connect the last great king with the revolutionary little dictator rules the country; the great liberator who has left so many dead machete as will leave them with hunger if you will not soon, he decided to invent a royal line that jumps several centuries in time. Robert Mugabe, senses of Zimbabwe, name has become a direct descendant of the great African pride.

byJavier Brandoli

1 September, 2011

Mozambique: sense of freedom

The city falls apart like cardboard soaked by rain. Its rugged skin of tall buildings in the center, of concrete sidewalks with reluctance and constant hole, does not prevent the city has the same philosophy that all major African cities I've visited: throng outside misery, unsuitable sales stalls, fruit stored on timbers or shoes littered the streets. City, however, perhaps by the beautiful sound of Portuguese, seems closer; almost, at times, more Caribbean than African.

byJavier Brandoli

14 May, 2011

Spain

Sargadelos, Lugo: smoking history

Sargadelos Lugo is a parish with just over 150 inhabitants. It may seem an unimportant, but at its heart lies the factory that introduced the first industrial capitalism in Spain, by Ed&Different.

byContributors

14 April, 2011

Chitambo: dust and dry leaves cover the heart of Livingstone

My first post in Zambia was titled "looking for David Livingstone". Today I am, finally, with its surprising and forgotten grave. A magical place, loaded with symbolism and literary images.

byJavier Brandoli

26 September, 2010

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.

byJavier Brandoli

16 September, 2010

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

byJavier Brandoli

9 September, 2010

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.

byJavier Brandoli

6 September, 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

"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,30/10
"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
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
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