Nashville, Tennessee, is considered a musical haven for music lovers. Each June, more than twenty thousand country music lovers journey to Nashville ‘Fan Fair,’ a unique festival that allows fans to interact with their favorite artists. More than two hundred performers from top stars to upcoming warblers, participate in this grand occasion. This four-day event …
Was red the first color your eye recognized while growing up? In the cosmos of colors, none is richly layered in cultural symbolism and suggestion as to the color of love, heat, excitement, and anger: namely red. No other color implies as many semiotic meanings and inspires as many emotions. I had visited the Cincinnati …
Do you recall forging and slurping vast quantities of noodles growing up? Almost every person from all walks of life has tasted the captivating flavors of noodles. Whether the noodle is made of rice, potato starch, or bean starch, its popularity can never be disparaged. And that’s why being a noodle lover myself, I was …
Are you looking for a tropical getaway? Then a visit to Cairns, Australia, with added attractions to ‘Kuranda,’ the spectacular ‘Atherton Tablelands’ and the ‘Great Barrier Reef’ may be your answer. Just twenty-seven kilometers northwest of Cairns is ‘Kuranda,’ a small beautiful, tropical village hidden in the rainforest. This place is open to tourists all …
Kakadu, the first Australian area inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Properties, is a natural wonder of the world. The area was so called in honor of the early aboriginal settlers of this region who spoke ‘Gagudju‘, as recorded by Baldwin Spencer, a great anthropologist in 1911. These Gagudju- speaking people were almost …
Strolling through the streets of Alice Springs I was struck by traditional art exhibits – how different this art form was from elsewhere in the world. On gazing hard and reading about it, I realized what a beautiful visual language it was, an imagery that was part of aboriginal life – a connection between their …
It was the year 2000. In January, our small twin-engined plane had whirred into the sky on a sultry summer morning from steamy Darwin towards mystical Alice Springs. Dawn broke out in an array of strange iridescence so native to the southern skies and we gently rolled into a quaint little airstrip seemingly in the …
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