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Until 1970, they were unaware of the existence of any people on Earth besides themselves. Hard to believe with such extensive views from their 140 foot high tree dwellings, but when you’re living in one of the least explored jungles in the world, these things can happen. The indigenous Korowai tribe have been building their [...]
There are no cars or motorcycles in the medieval quarters of Jodphur, India, once the capital of a princely state. Contrasting the burnt orange of the Thar Desert, the old city is painted in brilliant blue. Local guides say the houses were painted blue to indicate the homes of the upper-caste Brahmins, but others say [...]
The soundtrack of Flinstones cartoons broadcast continuously over the park’s tinny loudspeakers, echoing eerily between the dusty, dilapidating houses of Bedrock’s famous residents from a bygone era. Built over 40 years ago during the Route 66 roadside attraction craze, this lonely concrete replica of a cartoon town has seen better days. You can only wonder how [...]
Today I learned there’s a skateboarding school in Afghanistan where 40% of its students are female. In a part of the world where little girls are getting shot at for promoting women’s education, that’s a pretty impressive statistic. In a part of the world where little girls aren’t even allowed to ride a bicycle, that’s [...]
When a group of Australian scientists went on a a voyage to study plate tectonics (?) in the Pacific Ocean, the world map indicated that they would be passing an uninhabited island on their way called Sandy Island. When the boat approached the island’s coordinates, the captain prepared all the safety stops to make sure [...]
Taking counterfeiting to a whole new level… Paris in China In the outskirts of Shanghai stands a fake Eiffel Tower overlooking a replica of the Champ de Mars and rows of Parisian townhouses. This is not Disneyland in China, this is the gated community of Tianducheng, built in 2007 by real estate develepors Zhejiang Guangsha [...]
These women are the last of their kind. In their floral wetsuits, they fill their lungs with air and dive for long periods of time deep into the Pacific ocean, with nothing more than a mask and flippers. They are known as Ama and make a living hunting for abalone, a sea snail that produces pearls. [...]
You’d have to see it to believe it, so before I explain anything, just take a look … This is the Maeklong Market, west of Bangkok, a decades old place of trade in Thailand. Vendors were so comfortable here that when the Maeklong Railway built a commuter train to Bangkok running right through the middle [...]
I went on a mad spree this morning on Tumblr looking for some colorful urban marvels that I’d like to hop to and from if I had one of those teleportation thingys from Star Trek. Welcome to another edition of Travel P*rn™! Tbilisi, Georgia via here Georgetown, Malaysia Via here San Juan, Puerto [...]
You might think this sounds a little odd but sheep pageantry is in fact not all that different to the dog and cat shows we put on in the western world. In Senegal, sheep and rams are like pets. In 8 households out of 10 in Senegal, there are live-in sheep and rams because it’s [...]
Far from the gleaming multiplex cinemas most of us are accustomed to, there are places that
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Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina
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When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always
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The weekend is fast approaching, we’re looking forward to letting our hair down, maybe go
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1. A Storybook Tower by Friedensreich Hundertwasser AFP/ Timm Schamberger This might look like it
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I‘m not the kind of person you’re going to catch waiting in a museum queue that goes
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Now let’s just get something straight. If you want a train in your basement, you’ll
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1. French actor, Gerard Depardieu used to look very, very different. Here he is with Robert DeNiro
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I‘ll admit, I enjoy the occasional Big Mac just as much as the next mass-consumerist, but you
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As bizarre, off-beat and kitsch as they come is the International Banana Museum, boasting the
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is probably one of the most fascinating places on
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Blind dates are bad enough but when your own parents take to the streets and advertise your eternal
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For those of you learning to drive, it might sting a little to know that dogs have beaten you to
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So think of the biggest and baddest predators in the animal kingdom, the most powerful carnivores
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