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Japan: Kyoto fleamarket around a temple(1)

June 20, 2010

Voices hushed, feet in socks shuffling softly on tatami mats, sandalwood smoke from incense sticks,  heads bowed in ancestral prayer …  not so at the Kyoto temple fleamarket: a cacophony of voices, from shrill to shriller, boom to bass, everyone trying to overtrump the other and all with the same message: “buy me”. Hundreds of [...]

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Thailand: Spending a day with tigers

Poachers had killed the female tiger but left the new-born cub to fend for itself.  Passing villagers found it whimpering in the bush and decided to take it to the newly established temple near Kanchanaburi, Thailand.  Little did the Buddhist monks realize that they were embarking on a unique venture in 1994 with that very [...]

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Honeymooner’s paradise

Honeymoons – what a wonderful time to explore a new country!  And New Zealand is a place that offers it all:  beaches, mountains, hot springs, culture, adventure.  I don’t want to sound like the official tourism marketing agency, but it is true, this country does offer everything to honeymooners of all ages, by the way. [...]

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China: “Turandot” revisited in Beijing

Not planned, but welcome nonetheless:  A quick week in Beijing, my old stomping ground.  The occasion was a visit to a new production of Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Turandot” by the same directing/designing team that I had worked with in 1997/98 for “Turandot in the Forbidden City”:  Zhang Yimou, Chen Weiya, Zeng Li and Gao Guangjian. [...]

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