Jaiselmer, golden city of the Indian desert

There are places that are self-sufficient. To enter Jaiselmer is to go back in time, to marvel at each door, each archway, each column  When I went there, this fabulous city had already adapted well to the tourist demand and there were gadget shops in the streets that holidaymakers like to take home. Around the fortifications, … Read more

The Jain temples of Khajuraho, India

India is full of wonders and contradictions: between unbridled sex and puritanism, the Temples of Khajurâho invite us to a happy and uncomplicated sexuality   Khajurâho ? Less known than the Taj Mahal, this village might not be of any interest to curious travellers if it did not contain a marvel of architecture and history: … Read more

Tyrants, Dictators and Genocide: Cambodia, 1975

Travelling also means visiting history. Not everyone talks about glory and victory, that’s Cambodia Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A city teeming with people, noisy tuk-tuks, temples, street markets, a river. There are many things to visit. Museums, palaces, a night market, an extermination camp, a museum of genocidal crimes. Killing Field and Camp S21.The Killing Field are mass … Read more

Encounter with the children of the world

No need to be a parent to fall under the spell of the children of the world. They are everywhere, holding out their hands and smiles to us and huddling in the arms of strangers without fear. A tidal wave of tenderness!   In some countries, unlike in the West, children are present everywhere   … Read more

Khajurâho, India: a lake, temples and the most beautiful women in the world

The women of Khajuraho are dressed in brightly coloured saris, always embroidered with sequins, their arms covered with glittering bracelets. They are an ode to femininity and beauty  Gold earrings in the nose, ears, Indian women are jewels, precious stones.Thin face, aquiline nose, protruding cheekbone, fleshy and delicate lip. The golden metal shining on their brown … Read more

Traveller’s life: the cool hippies rastas

Travelling offers great encounters: other travellers are part of it!  Don Det is an island in Laos, close to the Cambodian border. It is one island among thousands of others, on the Boloven plateau. Tiny, there is only one main street here, and it is still made of clay. These islands are popular for the … Read more

Maditation (failed meditation retreat)

Meditation attempt, Burma, Pa-auk-taw-ya Kyaung  Like everyone else in this world, I am curious about myself. Who doesn’t dream nowadays of finding the way, the guru, the genius shrink who will reveal us to ourselves, will give us the absolute method to find the path to wisdom, inner beauty and the way to resist the … Read more

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