Out there with the Nomads
“As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall...
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New Travel Blog features a story of a Tibetan nomad who had to settle, called Amnye. Stories from Tibet, Yeti story.
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Singing on the Ghats
Benares. Kashi, the city of Light, is the old name for this oldest continually inhabited city in the world. It is as filthy as it is holy and the most prestigious place in all India to die: if you do die here, your soul will go straight to heaven, over the vast...
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DARJEELING DREAMS I remember spinning through the dripping forests as we climbed into the hills on the rickety bus from New Jalpaiguri to Darjeeling: I had a thought I had never had before. I thought how lovely it would be to have a baby and I could see the sweet...
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