Travel Writing
Escape: Yallah Morocco
04/04/09 16:45
This Morocco
trekking feature appeared in
Escape
Magazine (Poland) and was translated for
the issue. Contact Thomas for more information.
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Souks in Fez, Morocco
19/11/07 14:48
Walking over the crooked stones
lining the conurbation of hilly alleyways that
form the medina of Fez, the smell of mule dung
hangs in the musty air, as it has for over a
thousand years. From the 11th to the 15th
centuries, this was North Africa’s epicenter of
commerce, science, and religion. Saints lived
and died here. Kings chose it for their thrones.
Bartering still means boisterous haggling while
shopkeepers offer sweet mint tea. Transporters
yell “balak!” (Clear the path!) leading
overburdened animals of labor.
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Have Bike, Will Travel
07/08/07 05:43
Two months before completing a
one-year teaching contract in the small Korean
province of Jeju Island, wanderlust beckoned and
I longed for an exciting adventure, something
extraordinary and uncommon.
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The Sirens of Jeju Island
05/07/07 18:05
Off the shores of Jeju-do (Cheju
Island), nowhere close to the ancient isle of
Capri in the Tyrrhenian Sea, you might hear a
strange, distant sound echoing off the seaside
cliffs of Songsan (Sunrise Peak). Odysseus, who
might have heard similar alluring sounds as he
rapidly plugged his mates’ ears with wax, knew
that the peculiar melody meant certain death if
the ship approached too close. However, unlike
Odysseus, you won’t have to tie yourself to the
mast to witness these sirens of Asia — the
haenyo divers of Jeju.
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