The world is, largely, a safe place
People are friendly and helpful.
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Featured article
- by Roberto Rocha
- published from USA
- on 2011.03.23
10 things I learned from traveling around the world
Videos
Pop-up Kathakali
In the southern Indian state of Kerala, an ancient for of voiceless theater still thrives. Kathakali is a riot of colours and rhythms that retells Indian legends.
Learn about it through info-bubbles inspired by the VH1 series “Pop-up video.”
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Couchsurfing diaries: Tomer and Aelon in Canada on 2010.01.04
Bianca informed me we’d be hosting a pair of Israeli men and I immediately turned to my most hardened stereotypes about that country. As usual, they turned out to be entirely true.
They came to our home on January 1 as we were nursing a killer New Year’s Eve hangover. Tomer, a native of Ukraine, had flags of Guatemala, Colombia and Brazil stitched on his backpack. “I speak Portuguese,” he said, in a straining, unmistakably Semitic attempt at Portuguese.
“I speak some Hebrew,” I replied, and fired off three words that would win any schoolboy a swift reprimand. They both chortled and proceeded to teach me more complex obscenities.
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On Indian men holding hands in public in India on 2010.12.11
Nothing like seeing two Indian men holding hands to show how homophobic Westerners really are.
or
Nothing like seeing two Indian men holding hands to show how sexually repressed their society has become.
Which one is it? I think it’s both. What’s your say?
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What a $5 hotel in India looks like in India on 2010.11.12
I want to find the little lying bastard who told me the for $5 you can get a good, clean, comfortable hotel room anywhere in India.
He should suffer for warping my expectations in such an inhumane way.
This is what you get for $5 in the town of Kottayam, Kerala state.
Sounds
Inside an Indian Ashram
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A funeral in Papua New Guinea
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The sound of Fiji’s music
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