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There were people live in Wadi Halfa

There was a smell of sewage and drainage of misery. He had rotted remains of animals and huge crows flying over our heads with their throats screaming arid clouds. There was again a slow night and the air so thick that you used to block their ears.

byJavier Brandoli

15 April, 2014

Sudan: a route across the Nubian villages

"Nos dimos cuenta de que en el norte de Sudán hay un pueblo sin tiempo definido, barely sneaks into the destinations of travelers, whose history seems destined to be buried as his temples. But Ahmed opened the doors of his house, forever, unconditionally."

byDaniel Landa

2 September, 2013

Top 7 / Rivers

There are glacial rivers, tinted waters of the Amazon basin, rivers flowing through valleys is impossible in Mexico. Some drag become less lyrical and wild, other cross deserts to remind us that without them there is death only Sandy.

byDaniel Landa

28 May, 2012

Videoblog

The real sources of the Nile at Ripon Falls (Uganda)

Ricardo Coarasa- Jinja (Uganda) The locals say this place as the exact point where the Nile begins its journey 6.500 km to its mouth in Egypt. When the browser Speke gave the mythical sources 1862, here were the Ripon Falls (flooded after dam construction). The gurgling river now in the same place, as if looking out the waterfalls would like timidly surface. The Nile is here an oasis of calm water that can be navigated by boat for a few dollars. The panorama is taken from the same island that Speke drew near Ripon Falls.

byRicardo Coarasa

5 November, 2010

Uganda: the encounter with the "green" Nile

Playing the Nile is a special experience for the traveler. His wild in Murchison Falls leap; his calm millennial against Paraa Safari Lodge. Uganda is a country of green landscape, red dirt roads, dense clouds skies. A fascinating place.

byJavier Brandoli

12 Oct., 2010

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