Panda Bear keeper for a day
Panda Bear keeper for a day in Chengdu China. Read our previous posting “Shangri-La Hotel Chengdu!” As we were driving to the Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding (sic) north of the city of Chengdu, I noticed that the traffic lights had four lights rather than the usual three red, yellow and green ones….
BEST of Cameroon food : Shrimp Ndole !
Shrimp Ndole. Since Cameroon comes from the Portuguese word for “shrimp river”, it is only fitting that our featured dish for the country be the shrimp Ndole, made from essentially from peanuts, shrimp, and vegetables. “Ndole is one of the national dishes of Cameroon. The Ndole is like the Cameroonian flag revered by her children…
BEST of Bulgaria food : Monastery Gyuvetch !
Gyuvetch : best of Bulgaria food! Read our previous posting: “Best of Brunei food: Ambuyat!” Monastery Gyuvetch, an oven baked meat and vegetable stew, is a dish from Bulgaria with a very special history. It originated centuries ago in the kitchens of the Rila Monastery, the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria….
Battielal and the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve!
Battielal was our naturalist guide for our game drives through the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Sawai Madhopur, a town located about 100 miles southeast of Jaipur, reached by way of a four-hour hair-raising, constantly bumpy but most interesting drive. Until 1971, the year Indira Gandhi brought about a constitutional amendment which took away most of…