Matador - culture

Burning Man Tickets...

Oona Fay — Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:10:38 -0500

Hello fellow travelers!!!

This is a last minute search/request/all out effort to find a burning man ticket...I had my ticket lined up for months and then shit happened and I basically got screwed out of my ticket with 3 weeks notice to now find another one! I have friends coming in town from NZ to go...

Rasta Man……No Worries Bredrin

Insolent Minx — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:41:03 -0500

Photographer and travel enthusiast Kelly Saunders takes you on a voyage to Jamaica and shares the untold story of the genuine Rastafarian lifestyle.

Bob Marley, ganja, dreadlocks, cliff jumping and Montego Bay are all synonymous with Jamaica. You will be alright, no worries – you’re in Jamaica...

A Note From Cassie

Valerie — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:17:31 -0500

Cassie, my fellow globetrotter-in-crime, posted a note on her Facebook yesterday entitled "The Official Languages of Me." As soon as I finished reading it I knew it needed to be read by more people than her facebook friends. Those of us who left comments were completely in agreement on everything she...

Contemplating 'Culture'

Olivebeard — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:07:08 -0500

I've begun to notice that cultural anthropology has a tendency to be very external in nature. The analysis of what makes an area's "culture" is often performed by someone who has no childhood connection to that place. And yet, time and time again, experts on an "area" call upon their experience with...

Belief in...What?

terryodee — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:21:08 -0500

The 'objects' I come across predominantly in rural areas, no matter where I travel in central and southern Europe, are religious shrines and icons of one description or another. The closer to the Mediteranian one gets, the more predominant they become.

Never came across any in England, which is not a...

Travelling around Sarawak

winner2me — Wed, 7 May 2008 02:45:02 -0500

After being bombarded with the word 'blogging' for months and I thought why not give it a try...

To begin with, alot of people outside Sarawak on the Northern part of Borneo Island, have yet to discover the friendly people, unique culture, great rain forests where stalcalite formations, one of longest...

Your Teenage Child in a Foreign Land

croftyangel — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:31:16 -0500

I am a proud mother of a now 18 year old son, he has been all boy in his growing but I've never really had to complain much. He is sensitive, loving, and albeit a bit air-headed at times. He was born in Pennslyvania and raised in West Virginia, on a farm with goats, chickens and dogs.

When I announced...

I Am Tourist, I Am No Tourist

cam2yogi — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:20:27 -0600

The Road’s Consistency

Home and settled, now travel bound—it is a constant push and pull between the nature of yin and yang. A traveler is a traveler for life, and to be home is equally a journey as it is while on the road, but there’s a vast difference, a change in perspective. And...

When Chandni Chowk Touched My Senses

Zishaan Hayath — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:34:48 -0600

30-storey glazed buildings with blue-green glass windows. White coloured Tavera jeeps and Indica cars in BPO office parkings. Flyovers under construction. Malls. McDonalds. Indequate public transport. More swanky cars on the road. Dust, smoke and traffic jams.

It's the new face of a city...

Tattooing in Borneo

islandhapa — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:07:10 -0600

In July 2007, I accompanied my boyfriend, Su'a Sulu'ape Freewind, to the Second Borneo International Tattoo Convention in Sibu, where he was an invited guest artist. The convention was organized by our friend Ernesto of Borneoheadhunters Tattoo Studio in Kuching to bring together native tattooists and...

Tel Aviv Art And Culture

israelonblog — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:58:01 -0500

MUSEUMS

Tel Aviv
is home to three of Israel's
largest museums, which draw a total of 1.1 million visitors a year. Among them
are:

Tel Aviv
Museum...

Meru Culture- Kenya

SHALIN — Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:09:40 -0500

Our volunteer work to SHALIN in Meru has started well. One thing we
have started in collaboration with Meru Museum is a program on plastic
bags. The program aims at highlighting the benefits of traditional
containers compared to plastic containers used widely nowadays. The
pupils that will visit...

Thaipusam Festival in Singapore (2007)

khammons — Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:36:19 -0500

Somehow
this journey has felt different from the beginning. Maybe it's because
of the way it came about. Sitting across from my parents pitching a
weak plan of moving to Tahoe for the winter, only to have my mom tell
me that she thought it was a bad idea. "Do you have money to travel?"
she asked....

Living in Germany - a Personal View

Uitsmijter — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:45:52 -0500

My wife and I came to Germany from England in June. We have come here to live with our daughter, and her family. I suppose you could call it semi-retirement, a sabbatical whatever. We wanted a new experience after many years in England, and felt like a change. My wife is from Holland, and has lived with...

Nudity in Buenos Aires

David Miller — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:47:44 -0500

I was up on the roof of our building yesterday (where I take
my breaks), looking out over Rio de la Plata and listening
to the radio when they announced that top Buenos Aires
model Nicole Neumann was going to strip in the middle of Florida
and...

the oxygen-tank-man

David Miller — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:32:01 -0500

An old man named Emilio brought the oxygen tank over last
night. It was the last thing we needed to have everything ready for a
home-birth here in our apartment. (Chances are we won’t need it, but the
doctors attending the birth wanted there to be one just in case. Btw: having a
child in...

The Vodka Story

deli — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:01:42 -0500

There are three things that all russian households have: 1. A set of cabinets that have two glass doors that enclose china and odd things shaped out of glass 2. a tapestry or rug hung on the wall 3. high quality vodka ready in the event that company stops by. This the story of my first encounter with...