River Rafting Company Recommended by our Momentum Adventures guide on the Upper Klamath trip: http://www.driftnepal.com.np South Asia Bibliographies: Nepal A comprehensive listing compiled by UC Berkeley and subcategorized by academic area and media type. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/nepal.html Encylopedia Smithsonian: South Asian, Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern Art and Architecture Another cool bibliography. http://www.smithsonian.org/Encyclopedia_SI/freersac/seasiart.htm Human Rights Watch Publications: Asia/Nepal On forced relocation, child soldiers, disappearances… http://hrw.org/doc/?t=asia_pub&c=nepal
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On the road
Where I’ve Been
M found this little tool online. It lets you make a dynamic map of the states you’ve visited. Here are mine: Create your own.
Read moreAnd in the End…
I’m sad to leave this country. I’m sad to leave the people. I’m sad I lost my new, expensive camera on the plane home. I’m sad to lose the memory card in my camera that had a bunch of last-day photos of Don Toí±o, Gail and others. I made a tentative vow to myself to continue studying Spanish, and to return for a longer time once Lulu goes to college. [Ed. note, 12/3/07: Read about […]
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It’s almost time for us to go home, and it’s come too soon. On my last day of Spanish school our field trip was to the village of Jocotenango, where my teacher and Doí±a Rosa live and where there’s a museum of Maya musical instruments and clothing: Centro Cultural La Azotea. The young woman who gave me a tour of the museum spoke no English but, since I was her only audience, explained things so […]
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