Breakfast has always seemed such a mundane meal to me. The taste-tantalizing delights of a Porterhouse steak, or a filet mignon, topped off with cheesecake or a chocolate sundae, are missing. Instead, my normal fare is juice, fruit, toast, cereal …
Category: Asia
Smiles and Suffering Amongst India’s Poorest Children
India. A country with a dizzying mix of cultures, languages and religions, all merging together to make a unique cocktail of sights, sounds and smells. India is home to over a billion people, making it the second most populated country …
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Paddling the Waters of Hong Kong by Antonio Graceffo
An unemployed travel writer and former merchant seaman, I was bumming along the coast near Hong Kong’s Deep Water Bay, when I stumbled onto a sign which read “Boat trip around the world, only $100 HK.” Having nothing to keep …
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Beautiful India, Part 4 (Please see June, July, and August issues) by Arvind Viswanathan
I was taken to a village high up on the mountain, along the narrow road to the Nicholas Roerich Museum. Nicholas Roerich was a Russian Renaissance man who lived from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. He was an …
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Trading Home Comforts For Dreamy Mountains in Nepal by Julie Thompson
The comforts of the west are definitely lacking in Nepal says Britta Schroeder, a volunteer from Colorado, U.S. But despite living on rice and sleeping in a straw bed for 4 months, she would not have traded her experiences as …
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HOMAGE TO BIG BUDDHA by Hendson Quan
I turned my head to face the window and immediately sensed something overhead. My eyes instinctively glanced out and slightly upward. There it was, the Big Buddha towering over me as the #2 bus I was riding in swirled around …
SOLANG VALLEY AND SOLANG NATH PART 3 by Arvind Viswanathan
We drove to Solang Valley, where the Indian winter games are to be held. With this introduction, I got out of the car, only to be mobbed by people offering me a horse-ride to a place they called “Naya Amarnath”. …
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Sihanoukville: SCUBA Diving is Saving Cambodia’s Reefs
The fishermen turn away from the blast. After the hand-grenade has exploded, they can simply pick the dead fish off of the top of the water. Hand-grenade fishing is much easier than fishing with nets. But, it is one of …
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In an Akha Village Living Among Thailand’s Largest Hill Tribe
“Every Akha village has two gates,” Explained my host, Daniel McMartin, a man who has lived with and advocated for the Akha for more than thirteen years. “One at each end.” The bamboo gate, which keeps out evil spirits, seemed …
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Painting India Red by Brent Lewin
What do you get when you cross a kaleidoscope of colour with April Fools Day and a touch of urban guerilla warfare? I found out when I went to India this March to bear witness to Holi. Of the many …
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