The YouTube video below was my favorite track while traveling through the mountains of Ladakh. Sure, it's a very enchanting melody. But it also had a very practical benefit: It's really hard for Buddhist drivers to speed down a mountain with that kind of a soundtrack. Unfortunately we didn't have … [Read more...]
Soundtrack of Georgia
While staying with a Chechen family in Pankisi, my tour guide put her mp3 player to work. I wish I could have asked the locals what they thought of my half Indonesian, half German guide blasting out the national anthem of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria. Unfortunately, that opportunity didn't arise. … [Read more...]