Tag: culture
member name: Joel Carillet
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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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August 30, 2006 01:02 PM EDT --
My waitress at the Mountain View Hotel in Sapa, Vietnam.
"They are, all of them, attractive, graceful, demure women who confirm immediately . . .
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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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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 04, 2006 01:28 PM EDT --
My sister and me with local friends, March 1986
"'Oars! Oars!' he intensely whispered, seizing the helm -- 'grip your oars, and clutch your souls, now! . . .
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August 07, 2006 05:29 PM EDT --
Motorbikes in Saigon, Vietnam; the Cathedral of Notre Dame is in the background.
There is a problem with automobiles, and I'm not talking about break-downs or pollution. I'm . . .
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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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February 02, 2007 01:38 PM EST --
PART I – THE SETTING
I was in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, and in several weeks I would be traveling to China over the 15,397-foot . . .
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February 29, 2008 04:18 PM EST --
The following story, based on a 2004 visit to Bangkok and set largely in a strip club, is one of the more sensitive pieces I've . . .
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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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March 07, 2007 01:28 PM EST --
Several minutes after crossing the border into Uzbekistan I exchanged $20; in return, I got a wad of bills wrapped . . .
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July 06, 2006 01:14 PM EDT --
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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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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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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