Category: culture
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Growing Tea in Sri Lanka
Sri Lankans love tea. It is a holdover from British colonialism. A Scottish man named James Taylor started the tea industry in Sri Lanka in the 1800s. Then he moved to North Carolina to make sweet music. Teehee. Here are some pics and a video of the day Rochi, Giham and I went to the…
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Grand palace
We almost didn’t make it to the Grand Palace in Bangkok due to the heat. But, we got up early on our last day. It was great. Inside the walls were rooms formerly used as royal residences, temples and monuments to deceased royals.
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Buddhist Temples
Caroline and I visited three temples over the course of our time in Chiang Mai and Bangkok. Here are some pics to enjoy of them!! And the last one:
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Taipei 101
At one time in the mid 2000s (how do you spell “aughts”?) the building known as Taipei 101 was the tallest in the world. Our visit there Monday found me thinking about three things: 1. Looking from above I could really understand better how the mountains and the city are intertwined around the edges of…
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Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial
The very crude way I understand the history of Taiwan is that China had a civil war and Mao Zedong’s communist party beat the ruling party led by president Chiang Kai-Shek. In 1949 President Chiang and over 2 million military and civilians fled to the province of Taiwan. Some believe Taiwan is a part of…
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Inequity front and center
When I saw this sign offering men more money than women – and not even giving women the dignity of their age and maturity- I thought, “Well, I am not in Kansas anymore!”
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The Evil Eye
During the tour of street art there was a small mask that I had seen on a building the day before. I learned it was to scare away The Evil Eye. Our tour guide and the other young woman on our tour explained the belief and how it plays out in customs. If someone gets…
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