Tag: life
member name: Joel Carillet
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June 23, 2006 06:54 PM EDT --
I wrote this journal entry a few days before leaving Sumatra for Singapore. I was at the end of two days beside Lake Maninjau, a crater lake not far from the town of Bukit Tinggi. . . .
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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 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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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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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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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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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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April 25, 2008 01:21 PM EDT --
What follows is lifted from my personal journal and is set in 2004 on Indonesia's largest island, Sumatra. I don't . . .
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July 12, 2006 09:43 AM EDT --
There are both certain times and particular places where I grow angry to the extent that I am uncomfortable with myself. I value feeling the range of human emotions, for this makes me feel . . .
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December 11, 2006 12:31 PM EST --
On the road, it is often a loving stranger who illustrates that, at our best, we are all brothers and sisters . . .
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February 07, 2008 11:14 AM EST --
An article I wrote about Father Yousef (above) for the January/February issue of Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is now available online. I've posted an excerpt . . .
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June 06, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
In 329 BC, when Alexander the Great first laid eyes on the cosmopolitan city of Samarkand, he said, "Everything I have heard about [Samarkand] is true, except that it's more beautiful than I . . .
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May 22, 2008 05:00 PM EDT --
Early this summer I anticipate the publication of my book 30 Reasons to Travel: Photographs and Reflections from Southeast Asia . . . .
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July 11, 2006 11:34 AM EDT --
"My heart drops at the sight of Pithy's mom holding her corpse to her chest, weeping. Pithy is limp in her arms, her blood soaking into her mom's blouse. So much blood everywhere. . . .
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July 03, 2006 12:07 PM EDT --
Almost two years ago, while in the Vietnamese city of Hue, I rented a motorbike one afternoon to explore the surrounding countryside. In one village I stopped and found a teenage girl loading . . .
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July 13, 2006 10:24 AM EDT --
The April day in 1975, in which the Braves beat the Astros 2-1 at Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium, was not a good day for Loung Ung. This young girl -- this child -- cried because April . . .
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November 17, 2006 08:54 AM EST --
As a few of you know, I am in the midst of a six-week visit to Palestine and Israel. This is a difficult land, full of violence and injustice, but most of this you will not see on the news. . . .
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