Tag: legend
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Oman: A Land of Mystery and the Unseen
My brief journey to Oman—just three nights and four days—felt like stepping into a surreal dream. It was as if I had peered behind a curtain into a more subtle reality, a place where the unseen felt closer, and the veil between worlds seemed tantalizingly thin. This enigmatic land had me reflecting on its deep…
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Day 12~ August 12th~ Boracay
A very strange phenomenon I have encountered repeatedly is with the fear islanders have of the sea or it might be a great awe of the mysterious waters. I keep finding out that locals that live near the sea or ocean never really go into it with the exception of fishermen and sailors. Even in…
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Day 22~ July 22nd~ Vietnam
When fire meets water, when legends merge with life, when mystery overshadows skepticism, when fantasy touches your heart and you fly with the dragons…
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Day 20~ July 20th~ Vietnam
Halong Bay~ the bay of descending dragons~ they came from the sky to help save the people from invaders, they spat out pearls that turned into small islands, and they loved it so much that they decided to stay.
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Day Three Hundred Eighteen, December 6, 2011
Today was the day Nikolaus comes to see German children and they get ready for him by cleaning their boots (Nikolaus Stiefel) and setting them out at night to wake up to sweets and presents if they were good the past year or a tree branch in the boot if they were not. Lea lives…
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Day One Hundred Forty Six, June 17, 2011
The sticky fly in warm weather is perhaps the most annoying of all insects I used to think. It just comes to land on your skin and keeps coming back no matter how many times you ‘shu shu shu’ it. When growing up in Lebanon we children were told that the fly was an invention…