Mozambique Island, the island lost in time
A small island three miles long by 400 meters wide. A small piece of land lost in the Indian Ocean that, however, is a World Heritage Site since 1991.
javier Brandoli
Javier Brandoli lives in Africa and lives Africa. He is one of the travel founders to the past a universal journalist, A STORIES SEARCH.
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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.
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.
Gorongosa: the burden of elephants
The whole herd creates a perfect circle to protect their young. As if obeying a military order adopting a perfect figure of defense. It is one of the most beautiful moments I have lived in African safaris. Everything has a wild harmony.
South Africa: Leopard welcome
The Johannesburg airport sornisas, the calm of Graskop, the unexpected and brutal beauty of the Blyde River Canyon and the luck to see the big five in one day in Kruger. VaP. route begins ppor South Africa.
Cabo de Gata: snow, the pastor and the lighthouse keeper
The history of old men who saw snow, a lighthouse keeper at the mist leaves no sleep, a pastor who has never left the park or farmers who depend on a dry swamp. The guts of my favorite place in Spain.
Coimbra: the walls of letters
The University is like if you observe any, with the city at the foot, to warn residents that are here one after the run. Then, among its narrow streets and steep, the city speaks in its walls filled with messages of rebellion, the default of thinking before he decided to be.
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.
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 ".
Cape Town: life at low cost
Many who come to this beautiful city just sense the difference, but they never behold and believe to go visiting a corner of the first world beggars dotted invisible leaving sewers, converted into a dance hungry zombies and alcohol. They come from poverty in the slums of the low cost of living is, always at risk ... Por Javier Brandoli.
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.
Unknown by Jaén (In): the rock paintings of Sierra Morena
There are two, looking at the world as more of 6.000 years, when our ancestors painted in a corner of Sierra Morena. On the bare stone broken for ever and ever, the silhouettes of carmine powder have become a generation after another. Have overcome the time. Son eternas.
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.
Mana Pools: Buffalo attack, the night of hyenas
Suddenly comes a hyena that crosses in front of me, less than five meters, along the shore. At another time I guess I would have been paralyzed but not in the Mana Pools Park where one accepts the surprising part of the routine.
A beer in Victoria Falls: the promise of the end
And he looked, side again looked hop Zambia, where I lived last year unrepeatable moments. And laughed and waited for Fernando Bernardo, I called to join the group, and I put back on the precipice of rocks where the water was a blanket that you calaba, and never wanted to leave, and the delayed, I almost know acojonaba beginning to put a period and what followed? the best year and a half of my life.
Cuenca: track of the impregnable wall
A city of steep, narrow streets in which history is palpable to the rhythm of the feet. Cuenca is one of those Spanish villas step that is required. Its cathedral and the well known Hanging Houses have made this spot an icon that we all have in memory.
VAP, in "The Good Life" of Punto Radio
The reporter interviewed Elena Markinez on Sunday 31 de julio en su programa de Punto Radio "La buena vida" Javier a Brandoli, one of those responsible for viajesalpasado.com. From Cape Town, Javier beat out for the audience his experiences in South Africa a year after Iniesta goal.
Sport in South African townships
...Only a few used condoms with the band, in the grass, remember that we are in territory fucked. The rest is an installation of the first set in a third zone. Langa is one of those neighborhoods where the salads are dressed with oil from the car..
Memories of the World Cup in South Africa
The World Cup is in my heart the night that after the Spain-Portugal ended up at the Cuban bar in Cape Town watching an average Spanish team got drunk at five o'clock surrounded by ladies of paid and unpaid.
The “Zip Zap Circus” project
Clarification on the end of the project to help Zip Zap Circus. There is nothing shady, there is a communication. Good luck to this beautiful and fascinating children program.
(II)… circus performance of children with AIDS
Javier Brandoli. Cape Town's performance was the 27 April, national holiday in South Africa that commemorates…
Shoes skin and blood transfusions
The cynicism reached its zenith when the very Ngonyama said "I did not fight to stay poor". It's one of those who continues to take, in cash and in the first person to have fought for the freedom of their own.
(In) Circus training for children with AIDS…
Javier Brandoli. Cape Town Those who follow my blog about a Trip through Africa read a post…
The newest hotel in Africa
Agulhas Country Lodge Posada de la Almay. The hotel's southernmost continent. No more. Is final. Es Cape Agulhas. Return is only.
