Tag: sepia
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Day 1~ June 1st~ Xinjiang
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, spanning more than 1.6 million square kilometeres in the north western part of China, borders Tibet, Russia, Mongolia, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Kasakhstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. It is home to different ethnic groups like Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, Kyrgyz, Mongol, Tajik and the Han Chinese. Only about 4,3% of Xinjian is suitable for…
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Day 29~ May 29th~ Cambodia
When a small child looks at me and holds my stare, I can’t help but wonder ‘what’ looks out of those eyes. Unburdened by personality traits and identity, small children can look deep into your soul with a strange kind of knowing, soul to soul.
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Day 15~ May 15th~ Cambodia
Nature always finds a way to erode away human traces on its surfaces around the planet. In the temples of Angkor Wat, like in this old one in Ta Prohm, nature’s ways are not very subtle. The magnificent banyan trees just march over the great temples with their large trunks and extend their roots to…
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Day 12~ May 12th~ Cambodia
The children of the world are the only hope for its future if there is to be one… They are the ones who will carry on when we stop, who will live after we die, and who will break into the new realms that await the human race after we come close to giving up.…
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Day 26~ March 26th~ Egypt
The Pyramid of Khufu in Giza, the greatest and largest pyramid known to us, I had the chance to walk inside it in 1996. If you find the pyramids mysterious and impressive on the outside which everyone I know does, then the inside will leave you mystified! The pyramid of Khufu is constructed with shafts…
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Day 16~ March 16th~ Egypt
History and civilizations are not linear in their development… Each time I look at remains of ancient civilizations like the Chinese, the Mayans, the Romans, the Greeks, and the Egyptians, I find it quite difficult to relegate the fact that a lot of what is evident in their artifacts and architecture points to a more…
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Day 15~ March 15th~ Egypt
They say that whatever you do while alive on this planet is printed in the astral light of it, in its archives, waiting to be tuned to and accessed… I remember one time while working in Paris and on a quieter morning at the Louvre, standing in front of the Mona Lisa gazing at her…
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Day 29~ February 29th~ Lebanon
I am 2 days late in posting this because I am finding it so hard to leave my one month process with Lebanon, the most special place for me on this Earth. But life and this project must go on. On to the next journey in the next place which you will know about in…