epub |eng | | Author:Hemanta Mishra & Jim Ottaway

12 SCIENCE AND SHAMANISM “Drinking from one end and pissing from the other,” I muttered. “Farting and shitting in between.” I wanted to relieve the tension. We had a long, ...

epub |eng | 2016-12-31 | Author:Guides, Insight [Guides, Insight]

9 Dambulla, Sigiriya and Anuradhapura A two-day excursion into the past, driving from the southernmost point of the Cultural Triangle (Kandy) to the northernmost point (Anuradhapura) with trips to the ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-09 | Author:Simon Denyer

9 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? The heart of India’s democracy, parliament, is barely beating ‘Whatever the Constitution may or may not provide, the welfare of the country ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-13 | Author:Bill Porter

Kazak hosts at Lake of Heaven The lake was formed long ago by landslides that blocked the only side not hemmed in by the Tienshan Mountains. Then, five years before ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-09 | Author:Peter Levi [Peter Levi]

There are twenty-five lines of this inscription, written with incised guidelines on a smooth-sided, rough-backed slab of white limestone. The script is based on Greek with some special Kushan characteristics, ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Dominic Ziegler

CHAPTER 9 52°21.7' N 127°31.0' E The narrative of the European conquest and settlement of new lands comes everywhere now with acknowledgment of guilt and open shows of contrition. Except ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:Jonathan Tucker

Figure 25 Sogdian clay ossuary and deformed skulls. Seventh–eighth century. Over the next 300 years control of the city changed hands a number of times but it continued to thrive ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Sandy Gall [Gall, Sandy]

13 The Protection-Money Racket We don’t trust what they say any more. Pushtun elder, Kandahar, quoted in the New York Times, 26 March 2010 Kandahar is Afghanistan’s second city, the ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Christopher Aslan Alexander [Alexander, Christopher Aslan]

8 The dawn sweepers ‘You would never believe it,’ he said, ‘how our women are spoilt among us Sarts (Uzbeks). You can often see Kirghiz women working in the fields, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Planet, Lonely & Masters, Tom [Planet, Lonely]

4Sleeping Adaaran Select MeedhupparuRESORT ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %658 7700; www.adaaran.com/selectmeedhupparu; full board r from US$472; aiWs) Meedhupparu has gorgeous white beaches sloping down to a perfect turquoise lagoon. ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

Skardu – 23 January When I woke last night to use our ‘commode’ (that same bucket in which water is fetched during the day: of such unsavoury details is domestic ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Day 3: Geling to Tsarang 6–7 hours / 890m ascent / 870m descent The trail from Geling turns westward and climbs gently through fields in a broad valley, passing below ...

mobi |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Lonely Planet

* * * IF YOU CAN’T CLIMB YUSHAN, TRY… With over a thousand people applying for the 90 permits to climb Yushan each day, you need some options if you ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Horse Riding The wooded hills, villages and lakes around Udaipur are lovely riding country. You'll saddle up on Rajasthan's celebrated Marwari horses, known for their intelligence, stamina and cute inward-curving ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Johnson’sGUESTHOUSE ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %9846466399, 0477-2245825; www.johnsonskerala.com; d ₹500-850; iW) This backpacker favourite in a tumbledown mansion is as quirky as its owner, the gregarious Johnson Gilbert. It's ...