Meandering Morocco, part two

November 5, 2009 · 2 Comments 

For part one

“J’Alla, J’Alla. Madam, give me bag. Very heavy. Not for lady to carry.”

I watch in embarrassment as he is loaded with tonne after tonne. He just stands there obediently, no sign of resistance, not a complaint, just the odd blink and the occasional neigh. Finally, my mule is fully laden and ready to go!!

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Actun Tunichil Muknal, Belize, Caves and Superstition

August 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

My guide, Jose, looked around at me and put his finger to his lips, “Shh, can you feel the spirits?”

I held my breath. Human skeletons and cracked pottery lay scattered on the ground. Obsidian blades that were once used to pierce the tongue and genitals sat near a slate altar at the far wall. We were more than a kilometer underground. I was in Actun Tunichil Muknal, Belize’s “Cave of the Stone Sepulchre.”

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Malta, the Cart Ruts Mystery

July 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

At different sites over the two main islands of Malta and in the surrounding waters are found some man-made features which have been given the name ‘cart ruts’, largely because the first visitors to discover them believed they had been worn by a cart. Their most famous site is at Clapham Junction, named after Britain’s busiest railway intersection, an area in the southwestern part of Malta, where the wind sweeps in from the sea and the air smells particularly salty.

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