A House in Bali: The Intitial Ceremony…
Bali is after all the “Island of the Gods” so it should have come as no surprise that before constriction could start on our house in Canggu there had to be a ceremony… The ceremony was required because the land was part of a rice paddy field so to ensure harmony Dewi Sri, the goddess [...]
Papua New Guinea: Puri Puri men of Tufi
To the casual visitor to Papua New Guinea, the impression that the country is deeply religious would be easily gained. Missionaries are common in the country and I have met them in even the most remote locations – once unexpectedly about 2 hours up the Isis River on the remote south coast of New Britain. [...]
A Life in a Day: Shai Ram Sharma – Jaipur in Rajasthan, India
Sometimes you just automatically connect with people… so it was with Shai Ram Sharma as I wandered around near the City Palace in Jaipur the capital of Rajasthan in north-west India. Street and people photography is not really my forte, particularly in poor countries like India where, although the streets teem with photogenic subjects, I [...]
China: Shanghai’s Dong Tai Road Antique Market
The Dongtai Road “antique market” in Shanghai well worth a visit and is a pleasant way to pass an hour or two, but don’t go there expecting to find anything really genuine… There is very little for sale that could be classified as actually antique, although you will find things like Chinese made cameras that [...]
China: The Shanghai Insect Market
Shanghai is a city of immense contrast and you don’t have to go much farther than the Bund area to see the most vivid of those contrasts. Here the wide and powerful Hangpu River separates the old colonial part of Shanghai from it’s brash new counterpart Pudong. But if you wander around Shanghai you will [...]
Traveling in China – Don’s Handy Hints…
I was recently back in China for 3 weeks, about 1.5 years after living there for nearly two years – it really is an interesting place, full of contradictions and very much a puzzle wrapped in an enigma. It’s basically a huge “parallel universe” of 1.3 billion where there are many superficial indications of western [...]
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