Andean Explorations – 13: Floating islands of Uros
This post is part of my Peru travel series: Travel stories | Photo gallery The Uros is the name of a tribe of pre-Incan people who live on 42 self-fashioned floating man-made islets located in Lake...
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Andean Explorations 14 – Amantani island
This post is part of my Peru travel series: Travel stories | Photo gallery A welcome break from sleeping in hostels or buses, this night I spent in an authentic Quechuan village in a real home with...
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This post is part of my Peru travel series: Travel stories | Photo gallery The Inca moral community code says, “ama sua, ama llulla, ama qhilla” (Quechua: do not steal, do not lie, do not be lazy.)...
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Rice fields and empty lands
Bhutan travelogue: Chapter 13 | Read other chapters – See photo gallery Enjoying the rural landscape of Bhutan The monastery of the Divine Madman, called Chimi Lhakhang, about 20-minute walk from the...
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Bhutan travelogue: Chapter 21 | Read other chapters – See photo gallery Strolling around the little Wangdi village Legends relate that Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, the unifier of Bhutan as a nation-state...
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Pereslavl Zalessky and the journey back to Moscow
This post is part of my Russia travel series: Travel stories | Photo gallery An idle one-street town on the outskirts of Moscow, Pereslavl Zalesskiy was the last orthodox religious center I visited…....
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From my explore Canada travel series | Read other chapters – See photo gallery Charms of an animal farm in a little town in NorthEastern Ontario I spent few days of the 2009 Christmas holidays at my...
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