The Hermits of Karoulia of Mount Athos
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2017
Mount Athos, located on a Greek peninsula in the Aegean Sea, is home to one of the oldest surviving monastic community on Earth. The mountai...
Showing posts with the label Culture
Gävle Goat: The Christmas Goat That Vandals Can’t Keep Their Hands Off
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2016
Every year for Advent, about a month before Christmas, the town of Gavle, in Sweden, builds a giant Christmas goat out of straw. And every y...
Japan’s Notorious Taiji Dolphin Hunt
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2016
One of the most infamous dolphin hunting season has begun on the small coastal town of Taiji, in southwestern Japan. Hundreds of dolphins ar...
Subway Pushers of Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2016
The Japanese rail network is known throughout the world for its superiority and punctuality. In the capital city Tokyo, nearly 40 million pa...
The Dead Cities of Syria
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2016
Scattered across the vast Limestone Massif, in the northwest of Syria, between the Orontes and Afrin Rivers to the west and the Aleppo/Hama ...
Sperrgebiet: The National Park You Can’t Visit
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2016
In southwestern Namibia lies a vast area that’s been off-limits to visitors for more than a century. It stretches along the Namibian coast f...
Vietnamese Water Puppet Shows
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2016
For centuries, Vietnamese kids and grown-ups alike have been entertained by a unique kind of puppet show —one that is performed on water. Th...
America’s Strangest Conventions
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2016
For the last three years, American photographer Arthur Drooker has been to a dozen conventions across the country, photographing some of the...
Mount Bromo: The Hungry Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 26, 2016
Mount Bromo in East Java, Indonesia, is the youngest of several volcanoes in the Tengger massif, and is one of Java’s most active volcanoes....
Wakakusa Yamayaki: The Mountain Burning Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 25, 2016
Fireworks are a great way to celebrate any occasion, but like NuanQuan’s molten iron throwing festival , the Japanese city of Nara ( the cit...
