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We’ve all experienced culture shock at one time or another, but few of us would expect Christmas celebrations and customs to be shocking. After all, Christmas may be one of the most universally celebrated holidays in the world given how many non-Christians participate in the non-religious commercial aspects of the holiday. We all recognize the [...]
Sometimes a museum almost has to be visited. That’s how we ended up in this coca museum in Puno, Peru dedicated to coca and….Andean festival costumes. The masks in the museum were incredibly diverse and colorful and are often used for religious celebrations. Fortunately small cards described the festival associated with each mask. Perhaps most [...]
Over the centuries countries and civilizations have erected hundreds of war memorials. To either glorify victories (Arc de Triomphe in Paris) or remembered the fallen (Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC) these memorials seem as ubiquitous as the human experience. On our trip around the world we saw discrete memorials to fallen soldiers by the side [...]
Admittedly I hadn’t heard of International Women’s Day before traveling overseas. It’s not commonly celebrated in the USA, shocking considering the idea for a women’s day started with our women’s rights and suffragette movements over 100 years ago. How easily we forget. At any point in time, there are regions in the world undergoing political [...]
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