Tag: asianessays
member name: Joel Carillet
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September 14, 2006 12:09 PM EDT --
A sign at Jallianwala Bagh, in Amritsar, India. The grounds mark the spot where, in 1919, British troops gunned down several hundred unarmed Indians who were portesting against British rule. . . .
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November 29, 2006 04:26 AM EST --
A few shots of food in Asia, ranging from recognizable fast food to delicious ethnic plates.
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June 16, 2006 08:38 PM EDT --
I had come to Hong Kong by ferry from Macau, one hour to the west. By the time I was checked for SARS, got my passport stamped, and found my way from the international terminal (on Hong Kong Island) . . .
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August 26, 2006 11:36 AM EDT --
I'm posting these pictures with only a minimum of commentary (mostly because I have a lot to do today here in Tennessee and shouldn't be spending time posting pictures about Tibet). This . . .
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October 03, 2006 11:54 AM EDT --
THERE ARE A LOT OF BICYCLES ROAMING AROUND THIS WORLD. HERE ARE PICTURES OF A FEW OF THEM...
Beijing, China
Taxila, Pakistan
Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam
New Delhi, India
Kunming, China (parked . . .
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December 21, 2006 04:53 PM EST --
On Christmas morning 2003, as dawn struggled to break through the soup-like fog that had the small town of Sapa thoroughly enveloped, I struggled out of bed. I had been up late the night before, . . .
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January 06, 2007 09:56 PM EST --
A SELECTION OF PHOTOS OF THAT UNIVERSAL ANIMAL, THE DOG
Hanging outside a school in Dharamsala, . . .
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May 21, 2006 02:08 AM EDT --
Fyodor Dostoevsky was a perceptive observer of both man and nature. The Russian novelist was a brilliant writer as well, and if you have not read anything by him perhaps you . . .
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May 27, 2006 01:49 PM EDT --
Girl at sunrise walking along the moat surrounding the world's largest religious monument, Angkor Wat.
Centuries ago, Cambodia was a great power and ruled over territory stretching from Vietnam . . .
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August 16, 2006 10:12 AM EDT --
You could tell just by looking at the windows: Zongdian was a tough and gritty sort of town. At least in the old quarter, the windows were splattered with mud, as if Earth herself were slinging . . .
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December 22, 2006 11:41 AM EST --
For several years now, I have been unable to lightheartedly sing Christmas carols containing the word "Bethlehem". . . .
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September 04, 2006 12:51 PM EDT --
The following photographs are from Hoi An, a town in Vietnam that was once a major port but today is rather quiet...though you may overhear tourists talking about the town's beauty
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June 01, 2006 12:48 PM EDT --
"We travel," says travel writer Pico Iyer, "to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate." Reading about a place . . .
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April 04, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
"You must see the Bund at dawn," a British photographer in my hostel told me several times over the course of my week in Shanghai. I was no stranger to the Bund, that beautiful facade . . .
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June 21, 2006 09:57 AM EDT --
Lijiang, China
Since at least the time of the Qin Dynasty (the rulers who unified China in the third century BC), people have been propelling a ball forward with their feet. This predecessor of . . .
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July 01, 2006 01:24 PM EDT --
There are many good reasons to travel to Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic tucked away in the mountains of Central Asia. One reason, at least if you are like me, is that you will finally master . . .
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July 26, 2006 11:11 PM EDT --
Tucked among the mountains in the northernmost reaches of China's Yunnan Province, Deqin county is home to 55,000 people, 80 percent of whom are Tibetan. I entered Yunnan Province from Laos . . .
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July 27, 2006 10:22 PM EDT --
The longest I've ever been in a foreign country without leaving was fifty-two months (that was Papua New Guinea). The shortest I've ever been in a country, not including airport stops, . . .
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August 11, 2006 06:58 PM EDT --
On a very hot August afternoon, my train pulled into Delhi from Agra and I took my first step in India's capital. After finding a hotel for $3.60 a night in the backpacker district of . . .
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September 13, 2006 02:04 PM EDT --
Outside a coffee house in Jaipur, India. One could enter here to urinate, but anything beyond this had to be done elsewhere.
This sign at a park near Luang Prabang, Laos was curiously . . .
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