Mon: Savitsky’s art museum in Nukus, out of amassing early 20th century russian avant-garde paintings, deserves a glance.
Tue: Feeding stray dogs in Koh Samui means a tens of thousand dollar bill per month.
Wed: Registan square in Samarkand is reaching capacity…
Thu: Meaningful cartography puts the extent of lake Chad desiccation in perspective to inform the struggle between pastoralists and farmers.
Fri: Sary Tash on my mind.
Mon: A puppet circus still roams the back roads of Lithuania every summer with plenty of young newcomers.
Tue: Rapa Nui colorful games give an exotic touch to an otherwise very westernized island.
Wed: How a first cousin couple ends up in the tiny islet of Litloya, off the coast of Langoya island, way above the Artic circle in northern Norway needs lots of explaining.
Thu: Mount Kinabalu in Sabah (Malayan Borneo) keeps well moisted an inland that used to be covered by a thick rain forest rich in pitcher plants and orang-utans.
Fri: Remembering the placid shores of Song kul (Kyrgyzstan) notwithstanding the tough life of a new wife in her family-in-law’s yurt.
Mon: Crossing the Darien gap on foot, (mis)guided by “coyotes”, chased by criminals, poorly aided by the army to reach the American wall ain’t worth it.
Tue: Great Blasket island, at the very west tip of Ireland, provides a peculiar refuge for a couple of londoners escaping the rat race.
Thu: Deforestation of eastern Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) to give room to palm plantations follows the same sad pattern as in seen peninsular Malaya.
Fri: European union shameful subsidies in exchange for fishing rights in senegalese waters forces the artisanal fishermen to migrate to the EU.
Wed: Sarawak’s deforestation to give room to palm oil plantations shows how little has been learned from the same process happening in peninsular Malaya.
Fri: Minca as a refuge for the daughter of a colombian survivor of 1950’s “la violencia” gives hope for a lasting peace in the country.
What I learned last week is ... 