Mount Tai Shan, Five Peaks, one of the Nine Sacred Mountains of China continue… July 27, 2008
Posted by dodo in : Air Tickets, Airlines, Cars, Destination, England, Greece, Hotels, Malaysia, Sightseeing, Sweden, Trails, Trip, Venezuela, Wales , 4commentsShortly after midnight, a monk with a lantern awoke them with the cry: ‘The Bodhisattva has appeared!’ They threw on their clothes, their teeth chattering with the cold, the excitement, or both, and they scrambled across the temple courtyard and mounted to the tower. As they entered they found themselves facing one of the windows looking out on the vastness of the space beyond. Everyone gasped in surprise — none of them was prepared for what they saw. Numerous orange spheres of light where floating ‘majestically’ through the darkness of the mountain night beyond the window. (more…)
Naked Amongst the Guzerat June 26, 2008
Posted by dodo in : Caracas, South America, Venezuela , add a commentJuan turned on the generator at 3am. The slap of light catapulted me towards the obligatory shower. By three-thirty Senor Sanchez had arrived to take us on the long journey to Caracas. In air-conditioned blackness we drove past the fan- shaped traveller’s palms screening the swimming-pool, past the banana plantation where every day old Eduardo listlessly dribbled the hose over the tall leaves; through theiron gates of the hacienda to cross the wide, lush valley of African stargrass. The herds of Brahman cattle recently delivered from the Llanos plains for fattening stopped grazing momentarily to walk away from the assaulting headlamps. Already their vivid black noses glistened with good health, their silvery hides hanging in draped bands like velvet necklaces swaying gracefully as they munched. (more…)
