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Travel: Looking for the Salvador of Dona Flor - The magic and exuberance of Brazil's fifth-largest city where 'every day is a feast day'
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Travel
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Salvador (the capital of Bahia and the fifth-largest city of Brazil) was a town I had read about. I was anxious to discover if the reality matched up. 'Salvador's population is about 1,050,000. It was founded in 1549 and was till 1763 the capital of Brazil. Most of the 135 churches, the fortifications, and some other buildings date from the 17th and 18th centuries.'
SURVEY - EGYPT - Rooms at the bottom - POVERTY - A large chunk of the population still lives in or at the margins of poverty.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Travel
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Abu Zabal is not a name featured on the tourist map, nor indeed one that slips easily from the lips of government officials or company directors.
Survey of India - Sleeping giant stirs.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Travel
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Kherala, in the state of Haryana, some 50km south of Delhi, fits the image of the age-old village whose traditional values Mahatma Gandhi sought to preserve. But take a closer look and you'll discover the modern age tentatively knocking on many a front door.
In the tracks of Quixote across a land of fantasy
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Travel
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As Jimmy Burns crosses La Mancha in search of a hero, reality and fiction begin to merge.
With a name of a conquistador and the bearing of a well-nourished Castilian peasant, Jose Diaz Pintado Carreton struck me as just the person I was looking for in my quest for Don Quixote.
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