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Ruta VAP (II): Things waters of the Indian

Until recently Mozambique was one of the poorest countries in the world. No wonder. What I have seen so far and what I have been told shows me a face of Africa a little different from the one I knew. The Portuguese had to leave in 24 hours, which did not allow a minimally planned decolonization, shortly after there was a fifteen year civil war. The result is that the few Portuguese infrastructures have been lost.

byContributors

12 September, 2014

The African Macondo: it paralyzes good order

Rafael, one of the guards of the hotel, Sergeant former wartime, rests next to the water tank on the hill there Hotel. He sits, looking ahead, when the head of an enormous boa appears between their legs. A snake that is already part of the landscape of the hill, always lost in the bushes nearby and there recurrently about drinking.

byJavier Brandoli

20 November, 2012

The day you stop seeing the sea…

Everything is sea, as when under the beach and helped the fishermen to pull nets laying morning (something I do not do much for me as I approach stop pulling the net while they encourage me to continue). Groups of women and children for an hour dragging eternal network, weighing as the ocean and brings small fish are eaten by dozens of people who live near them without.

byJavier Brandoli

2 Oct., 2012

Life on the road

A giraffe crossing the road between cars. One of the young accelerated more than their legs and body plummeted on the asphalt in front of another vehicle. For a moment it seemed dead. His mother, while, nervosa is shaking the bushes

byJavier Brandoli

4 September, 2012

Hailstorm in Indian

A medio camino, suddenly, the sky was dull, the wind hit with more force and began unloading a fierce hailstorm. Unexpected time, que hacía años que allí no sucedía, and the horizon became an intense palette. The sea is green and the sky turned dark gray

byJavier Brandoli

20 August, 2012

TRAVEL TO THE PAST PRESENTS AFRICAN TOUR!

The route Viajesalpasado, Villas do Indian and South African Eland Expeditions, Malawi and Mozambique aims to teach part of the lesser known South African. It is a full path in which we crossed by three national wildlife parks; a national park in the middle of paradise islands of the Indian Ocean ...

byvap

7 May, 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

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

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.

byJavier Brandoli

29 November, 2011

Vilanculos: dismissed in paradise

While waiting in the sun for someone to come to our rescue and we saw happen to Mozambicans who walk, Like most African, in the middle of nowhere doing nothing other, get a truck from the hotel. One can already sense that it must be a special place a place that stands for a way impossible

byJavier Brandoli

22 November, 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