In some rural parts of The Philippines and China, people believe that it is best to be laid to rest as close to heaven as possible – literally. Rather than burying them below ground, locals suspend their loved ones’ coffins from the side of cliffs where they hang indefinitely. Self-Mummi...
When I lived in the Philippines, it was described to me as "like eating pudding in an outhouse, " and I never heard a better description. From: Carl A Pforzheimer. I always thought China Town in London had bad drains until I discovered the durian! A group of us clubbed together and b...
The failed Arab Spring, the Balkan unrest, and the Islamic wars in the Middle East have created a sort of chaos in which millions of people have no desire to stay home and face violence and death. What the non-Westerners see on cable television and the Internet are scenes of a carefree,...