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The Temple of Nagda

. It takes us 6 hours to reach Udaipur. As we get closer we visit a superb temple at Nagda. The 11th century Jain temple of Abudji is well preserved and contains a 15th century black-marble idol of tirhankar Shanti Nath. There are very fie ad intricate...

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3 septembre 2006

Jaipur

. After a good swim at the pool, we head to Jantar Mantar, a stunning place devoted to astronomy. The name is derived from the Sanskrit yanta matr meaning ‘instrument of calculation. The building is an observatory, built in 1728 for Maharaja Jai Singh,...

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12 août 2006

A Fanstatic Wedding in Goma

It definitely was a special even in Goma. Not only because after years of living together, Isabelle and Nicolas decided to get married, but this very special moment took place in a very special place. Since they announced their wish to get married here...

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27 juillet 2006

A Famous Psychic

This news comes from Associated Press. Since he predicted the murder of former Prime Minister Hariri and as well as Journalist Tuene, Michel Yayek, psychic, has become very famous in Lebanon (he actually gained notoriety when he predicted US space shuttle...

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30 juillet 2006

Museum of the Dead

Baby chimp in formol We leave our friends to visit the building aside. Long alleys of arcades link the buildings with one another. I could close my eyes and imagine the times when those alleys where storming with busy people. Nowadays, the fainting yellow...

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20 juillet 2006

A Pizza for Israel

We've received some comments that we were not impartial with what currently takes place in Lebanon. Hey, let us put this straight. That's correct, we're not impartial here. Our familiy, our country is being shelled, and the least we can say is that we're...

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25 mai 2006

A pilot project - Un projet pilote

Today I am monitoring a food security project in Komanda area. Since the security situation has improved in this part of Ituri, people start returning home. But often, there's no home. Either it's been burned, destroyed, or being occupied by others. Resuming...

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11 mai 2006

The Mwami palace in Nyanza

Mwami's traditional palace Before the arrival of the Europeans, Rwanda was a centralised state complete with a monarchy. Traditionally, the royal court of the kings was mobile. By the arrival of the Europeans, the palace has shifted to Nyanza. It was...

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6 juillet 2006

Dracula - le retour

Voici une news du Congo : "La population de Butembo a manifesté le mardi 27 juin 2006 contre la persistance du phénomène d'extraction du sang humain par des hommes appelés « tireurs de sang ». Ils sont soupçonnés de collaborer avec certains commerçants...

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5 août 2006

Moto taxi

Everybody will tell you this in Congo : "Ah vraiment, le transport, c'est trrés difficile!!" (Ah, we're struggling with transportation!!"). This is definitely the case in Kinshasa. One can only admire the patience and resilience of the inhabitants of...

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29 juin 2006

Next trip - Prochain voyage

We've made up our minds. Our next trip will be to... India. Given the weather should not be great in the south we'll focus on Rajasthan. Here are some photos on how it looks like. Hope we'll be able to take some as beautiful as those ones... We leave...

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9 juin 2006

Kampala

traffic jam in Kampala Kampala is built on seven hills, the city center is on just one of them, Nakasero. The top half of the hill is a garden city of wide, quiet avenues lined with large houses behind imposing fences and a golf course. Embassies, international...

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4 juin 2006

Meat for sale - Une brochette en chemin

On our way to Kampala, we stop by this small village. This man tries his luck selling his goat brochettes to all travellers passing by. We're not much hungry at that point, and I am not quite sure it's all that fresh anyway... Sur la route menant à Kampala,...

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14 juin 2006

Kisoro

The road from Mbarara to Kisoro is a wrinkled path where your maximum speed could reach 40km/hour. The villages are scattered next to the main road and people are busy and very helpful when you ask for assistance and they rarely ask for assistance in...

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3 juin 2006

Uganda

Okay, let's move a bit from Congo and let's talk about one of his neighbours. Uganda. A small journey there, for 5 days, a bit of a professional trip (we'll talk more about the chimp sanctuary tomorrow) but some time to move around and give a taste of...

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4 avril 2006

Amazing faces from China

During our trip in China, we've made great encounters. People from different cultures and backgrounds, with an incredible diversity of clothes and facial expressions. Have a look at the photos we've posted in the new photo album "Chinese Faces " Durant...

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30 mars 2006

The Naxi - Les Naxi

The Naxi is an ethny of the Tibeto-Burmese family that migrated out of the highlands of Eastern Tibet into Lijiang. The Naxi culture is influenced both by Hans and Tibetans. Native religion was based around the ritual specialist called the Dongba, a kind...

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27 mars 2006

More on China / La Chine, encore

We're now back to Goma. It feels great being home again. Quite another world from where we come from. With all those souvenirs in our minds, we would like to share more with you about this whole experience in the Middle Kingdom. So we've decided to rewrite...

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12 avril 2006

Shengcun and Qingkou - DAY 10

After a good night rest in Yuanyang, we head to Shengcun, a village 20 kms south. It takes us 20 minutes to get to pronounce the name right ("Tchenssueeea" in Mandarin). The route going across moutains and rice terraces is superb. When we got there, we...

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10 avril 2006

The sculpted mountains of Yuanyang - DAY 9 - Les montagnes sculptées de Yuanyang

One of the most beautiful seasonal events in Yunnan is the arrival of the winter fog that blankets the valleys and lower slopes of the Ailao Moutains, between the Red River and the border with Vietnam. The verdant moutains rise several hundreds metres...

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7 avril 2006

Shilin Stone Forest - DAY 7 - La forêt de pierre de Shilin

It's been a weird night. We have experienced the Chinese sleeper bus. Very stylish and tight (chinese size!!!) yet comfortable - it took us from Shangri La to Kunming in 12 hours. A Chinese sleeper bus is made of three rows of beds in two levels. We had...

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6 avril 2006

The Tibetans of Shangri La

The inhabitants of this region have all of the characteristics of highland Tibetan culture further west: barley cultivation, yaks, monasteries, etc. However Shangri La's Tibetans are more fortunate than others as they can count on the annual monsoon for...

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5 avril 2006

Shangri La - DAY 6

Shangri La (also called Zhongdian) is situated at an altitude of 3,200 meters, surrounded by the Tibetan plateau on one side and the Sichuan region on the other. Eighty percent of the population here is of Tibetan origin. This region used to be part of...

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22 février 2006

Village tales

A few weeks ago I had the chance to be in the field in a lost corner of the world. In this story the field means the orange sand bumpy road connecting small villages, hills, rivers, forests, and a bunch of tempting landscapes. Waking up early morning,...

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20 février 2006

Massissi Picnic

It was a rainy week-end. But it was fun. After an epic saturday night of dancing and drinking, we decided to join some friends on Sunday and picnic in the mountains. Driving west, leaving the lake behind, and one becomes surrounded by stunning hills,...

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