A few kilometres west of Tolagnaro lies vast lake Vinanibe which is rich in prawns and connected to the Indian ocean by a small channel. There is a small islet at the northern side where Vinanibe river enters the lake, and on the islet is the so-called Portuguese Fort, the oldest surviving building in Madagascar. […]
Schlagwort: Geschichte
Tolagnaro (Fort Dauphin)
Tolagnaro, also known by its French colonial name Fort Dauphin, is Madagascar´s southernmost city, built on a peninsula at the south-eastern tip of the island at the place of the former settlement Tholongar. After a brief visit of Portuguese castaways in the Antanosy region at the beginning of the 16th century, it has been the […]
Update: Antananarivo – Tana par plaisir
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Fajã de Água
If Fajã de Água wouldn´t already exist, I´m pretty sure some writer or film director would make it up. It resembles too much a dream or a fantasy, and it is too close to at least a million clichés we´ve been fed with through movies, advertisement and pulp literature, because it´s the place at the […]
Nova Sintra
The capital of Brava Island is Nova Sintra, sitting about 500 metres above Furna down at the seashore. A winding road leads up to Nova Sintra which takes no more than ten or twelve minutes, but you come to a totally different world. Where Furna is hot, humid and rocky, Nova Sintra is green, humid, […]
Cidade do Maio (Cidade do Porto Ingles)
The capital of Maio is located at the southwestern tip of the island and has the only decent port. Some 3.000 or 4.000 people are living there, and all the island´s students attend high school in town. Maio had been discovered in 1460 but was of no further interest because of being barren and hostile. […]
Cidade Velha
In 1462, Antonio da Noli, an Italian seafarer exploring the Atlantic Ocean for the Portuguese, built a settlement at the exit auf Ribeira Grande, a beautiful valley at the south coast of the island of Santiago. This is the beginning of human history on the archipelago as the settlement started to flourish, being granted the […]
Kariba dam wall – Die Kariba-Talsperre
A few kilometres east of Siavonga lies the Kariba dam wall with the road to Zimbabwe. The construction of the dam wall was planned in 1955 by the government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, under the name of Central African Federation (CAF) a part of the Commonwealth. Preparation work started the same year. […]
Kitgum – Reconciliation at the centre of terror – Versöhnung im Zentrum des Schreckens
Kitgum is a calm and relaxed town at the centre of northern Uganda, and it wouldn´t be worth mentioning, if Kitgum and it´s 45.000 inhabitants had not been the centre of power of Joseph Kony and his Lord´s Resistance Army (LRA) for years. That was from where the pseudo-religious, fanaticised butchers covered the north with […]
Gulu
We had planned to visit Gulu 2012 but back then, it had been a matter of time to decide either to visit Gulu or to climb Mount Elgon in the east. We have had some setbacks when it came to visiting Uganda’s unique nature reserves. Often, it was only possible to reach a national park […]
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