What’s on family dinner tables around the globe?
Photographs by Peter Menzel from the book “Hungry Planet”
Come see What The World Eats. A few years ago photographer Peter Menzel and his wife Faith D’Aluisio started to photograph what family’s around the globe eat and wrote down what their weekly expenditure is. In 2005 they published [...]
If you’re ever in Zimbabwe, don’t miss the chance to take a swim in The Devil’s Pool, a small lagoon, enclosed by rocks, on the edge of one of the biggest, most beautiful waterfalls in the world, Victoria Falls. Set on Livingstone Island, at a height of 103 meters, Devil’s Pool is definitely one of [...]
China expert M Taylor Fravel believes the issue of the Dalai Lama’s visit to Tawang monastery in Arunachal Pradesh (India), in the long-term, will probably not worsen relations between the two countries.
“I think it will probably be overblown. Obviously, China is going to protest. I don’t think it will have a long-term effect, but in [...]
Oktoberfest is a sixteen-day festival held each year in Munich, Germany during late September (and running to early October). It is one of the most famous events in Germany and the world’s largest fair, with some six million people attending every year, and is an important part of Bavarian culture. Other cities across the world [...]
According to a report carried out in www.news.com.au, here are the 5 most over-rated ancient and historical sites in the world.
1 . Stonehenge, UK :
Famous for its astonishingly huge stones. The summer solstice ceremony held by druids and New Agers confirm it as a cathedral to mystical paganism.
Reality: Tourists [...]
What are your first thoughts, when you think of Egypt? A dry place, a desert, Cairo and the pyramids? And on top of that you probably would never heard of Sharm El Sheikh.
The simplicity of sun, sea and sand. The luxury of five-star hotels, water sports, shopping and entertainment. This is Sharm el-Sheikh, one [...]
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown” – so goes this age-old proverb. However, it is not just uneasiness in store for a monarch. Emperors globally have enjoyed and continue to enjoy luxurious lifestyles. Some even have 13 brides. The best levels of comfort that money can fetch are in store for the [...]
No.10 Full Moon Party
Location: Puro Beach, Palma, Mallorca
Date: June 7, 2009
Taking its cue from Thailand’s famed full moon parties, Puro Beach’s Full Moon Party draws a sexy bohemian crowd who sprawl on sun-loungers by day and sidle up against one another’s sweaty bodies by night. With a Philippe Starck-inspired interior and a gorgeous wooden terrace [...]
The cultural gap across the Atlantic
The Western world (i.e. Europe, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand) could be considered as a single “Western civilisation”. ‘Westernness’ could be defined by people who are ethnically or culturally European, in other words people of European descent or speaking a European language as their mother-tongue.
Europe itself has the greatest [...]
