Tag: Travel

  • The Parintins Folklore Festival Is One of Brazil’s Liveliest and Most Extraordinary Events

    The Parintins Folklore Festival Is One of Brazil’s Liveliest and Most Extraordinary Events

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     Ed Cunningham of Time Out travels to the heart of the Amazon rainforest to attend the Parintins Folklore Festival, one of Brazil’s liveliest and most extraordinary events. Here’s his description of the event. It sounds AWESOME! Taking place on an island in the middle of the Amazon river, Parintins is accessible only by plane or…

  • Richard Wu Breaks the Mold

    Richard Wu Breaks the Mold

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    Solitaire International features the “iconoclast” Richard Wu and his “one-off, new-age” jewelry. Richard Wu is the architect of the unexpected, and breaking the mould is second nature to him. His artistry lies in expressing his existential angst through one-off, new-age creations. Starting out as a traditional jade carver and engraver in Suzhou, China, and later learning…

  • “Tradition Does Not Confine Us – It Guides Us”

    “Tradition Does Not Confine Us – It Guides Us”

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    In a recent post I acknowledged my mixed feelings  about traditional cultures. Subsequently, I came across this column by Tiffani Gyatso in Buddhistdoor Global. She writes beautifully about the tension between tradition and modernity and concludes: Tradition sustains; contemporaneity provokes. And perhaps the future of art—of those expressions that truly touch the human spirit—lies precisely…

  • Lambi Judaai – Reshma

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    Lambi Judaai – Reshma Lambi Judaai – Reshma Reshma was born in Bikaner, Rajasthan to a Banjara (Gypsy) family around 1947. She did not receive any formal education and spent much of her childhood singing at the mazars (shrines) of the mystic saints of Sindh. She once said in an interview, “I was born in a family of saudagars (traders) in…

  • Getting in touch with Maasai culture and the natural beauty of southern Kenya

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    Michael Benanav shares his stay at Maji Moto Maasai Cultural Camp with his readers at the New York Times: Though the camp is highly rated on Trip Advisor, I wasn’t really sure where the experience would fall on the spectrum between “farcically touristy” and “viscerally authentic” (which aren’t official review categories, but perhaps should be).…

  • Become a WWOOFer and Travel The World For Next to Nothing

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    WWOOF — an acronym for Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms — offers you a way to travel the world for next to nothing. (Normally, you pay only to get there.) At the organization’s website, you can search the database of organic farms around the world to see who’s looking for someone to help out. WWOOF hosts are those…