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Teaching a Man to Fish
Posted 02 Sep 2010 by Gabrielle Yetter My colleague, Siratha, asked me last week if I could help him write English captions for the photos he was displaying at the Indigenous People's Day event in Siem Reap. Since I only had 30 minutes before heading out to my language class, I swiftly ran through the photos, asked him about the subje...more... |
Nepal Buddhist
Posted 02 Sep 2010 by Karchung Lama Situated at the Terai plains of the southern Nepal, Lumbini is the place where Siddhartha Gautam, the Shakya Prince and the ultimate Buddha, the Enlighted One, were born in 623 BC. The sacred place, marked by a stone pillar erected by Emperor Ashoka of India in 249 BC, is listed as one of the World ...more... |
Bird Watching
Posted 01 Sep 2010 by Karchung Lama Nepal is indeed a paradise for birds with over 800 species recorded representing 10% of the worlds population in just a tiny fraction of the earths land mass. Just to list a few: eight species of stork, six species of pheasant, 17 species of cuckoo, 3 species of crow, cormorant, egret, black ibis, e...more... |
Heartening News regarding Tiger Poachers
Posted 27 Aug 2010 by Aline Dobbie  TIGER PROTECTION GROUPDear All This is finally a great news- North’s Veerappan gets 6-yr term for poaching Notorious poacher Sansar Chand, better known as ‘Veerappan of north India’, was on Wednesday sentenced to six years in jail — maximum punishment prescribed under the Wildlife Protec...more... |
Fiji Me with Moon Fiji
Posted 26 Aug 2010 by David Stanley Avalon Travel Publishing has released the 8th edition of Moon Fiji, the original travel guide to the 322-island Fiji archipelago. Since 1985, Moon Fiji has been the leading travel guidebook to Fiji. Author David Stanley began writing about the South Pacific in 1979, and over the years tens of thousa...more... |
Tahiti Travel Guide
Posted 26 Aug 2010 by David Stanley Avalon Travel Publishing has released the 6th edition of Moon Tahiti, the leading travel guidebook to French Polynesia. Author David Stanley wrote the first South Pacific Handbook in 1979. Ten years later the handbook’s French Polynesia chapter was spun off as a separate guide and Moon Tahiti contin...more... |
Free the beaches
Posted 24 Aug 2010 by Justin Francis  Private clubs are taking over Italy's coastline charging up to GBP 68 per day for access to PUBLICLY owned beach front. http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/22/italy-beach-berlusconi-rossi-zuccheroThis has made me so furious I am starting a free the ...more... |
What you should not miss while visiting Vietnam in October
Posted 24 Aug 2010 by David Nguyen Hanoi is preparing to celebrate its millennial birthday, take a look to activities to celebrate 1000th Thang Long – Hanoi anniversary, Vietnam 1. Opening day (October 1) * The opening ceremony will be held by the Hanoi authorities and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism at the Ly Thai To s...more... |
Australia’s not supposed to be this cold in winter.
Posted 20 Aug 2010 by Julia  Back in Bali we never thought about how cold we were going to be.Australia’s not supposed to be this cold in winter. Bali was lovely and hot and a bit humid when we got to Ubud, we settled nicely in to our own little private temple with amazing door and window surrounds and carvings to match....more... |
Altitude: 5-day trek and village houses in Valbona and Thethi
Posted 19 Aug 2010 by lieke van leeuwen Despite their extreme isolation (or maybe because of it) the northernmost villages of Albania are growing in popularity. This region is well worth the hours of rocky commute required to get there. The landscape is a three dimensional postcard of jagged alpine peaks, thickly vegetated valleys, and th...more... |
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