Tag: people
member name: Joel Carillet
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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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July 21, 2006 02:27 AM EDT --
I've postponed a month-long plan to publish a photo essay from a 2003 trip I made to Gaza. There are several reasons for this, most of them to do with being busy lately, but the primary reason . . .
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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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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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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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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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February 07, 2007 04:02 PM EST --
Kathmandu, the capital and largest city of Nepal, sits in a valley about 4,200 feet above sea level. . . .
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April 12, 2007 01:23 PM EDT --
The entire teahouse was drenched in warm sunlight. Early morning shadows were cast about the room, falling . . .
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August 31, 2007 10:42 PM EDT --
A year ago -- or heck, even six weeks ago -- if you had asked me if I would ever post a photo essay set in a market, particularly . . .
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January 31, 2008 12:50 AM EST --
In providing captions for photo graphs, there is often background to the image that the photographer leaves out. . . .
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November 27, 2008 03:51 PM EST --
This post begins what I hope will be a four-part series on Nicaragua, where I recently traveled for two weeks. The series will be a little different from most of . . .
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December 12, 2008 09:25 PM EST --
This is part two of a four-part series looking at different towns in Nicaragua. To begin at part one -- Granada -- click . . .
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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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March 23, 2007 04:42 PM EDT --
It was early morning when I passed through Thai passport control and boarded a boat bound for the Lao side . . .
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October 26, 2007 01:30 AM EDT --
This installment of my "Reflections on the Road" column draws from the manuscript I've written narrating my . . .
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