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18 Aug 2018

Eid al-Adha / Kurban bayram: How we experienced in Indonesia and Tajikistan the Feast of the Sacrifice

With this year’s Ramadan that just started yesterday, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the three Ramadans that we lived during our long trip, the first in Turkey, the second in Cambodia —where we barely noticed it, as only...

12 Sep 2017

How to cook Central Asian plov (recipe from Tajikistan)

If you have been around Central Asia, you will already know that the most famous and eaten dish in the area is, by far, plov. Many people claim it to be Uzbek, while others say it’s simply Central Asian, but...

10 Jul 2017

Farsi survival dictionary: the language guide you will need to travel around Iran

Planning a trip to Iran? Well, there is something you should know and is that all the people that you meet will be really happy that you visit their country and would love to speak with you, but since they...

09 Jan 2017

Celebrating the Buddhist New Year in Vientiane

During the month that we spent in Thailand, every time we were asked how long we would stay around, we got tired of hearing what a pity we would not be there for Songkran and that we would be already...

31 Oct 2016

Discovering the ancient art of henna

One of the secular traditions of South Asia, Middle East and North Africa is the art of henna. In these different areas, this kind of art was developed more or less in the same period. But of course in different...

30 May 2016

Sweet sticky rice with mango

As you will see traveling around Southeast Asia, all over this region the main aliment used in the cooking preparations is by far the rice, never mind if it’s for cooking salty dishes or sweet ones. For this reason, a...

15 Mar 2016

Samba(r)… Not just a dance!

While being in South India, they kept on asking us about samba. At first, we innocently thought it was about the so-known dance but by the time we reached the state of Tamil Nadu, we realized this was a south...

07 Mar 2016

Serbia on the grill: Pljeskavica

Travelling few months around India one of the things that sometimes I miss the most is the possibility to eat a great and cheap dish of meat. Thinking about it in the last days, came to my mind one of...

23 Feb 2016

The home-made taste of Maharashtra: Pitla

These last days I’m not posting new content due to lack of Internet and also because my phone kind of died and came back to life… Several times. Funny thing is that my girlfriend Eugenia, who stays in India volunteering...