Travel is the recurrent theme of all my experiences, understood not as achieving a goal, but as an approaching to places and cultures.
Travel is the recurrent theme of all my experiences, understood not as achieving a goal, but as an approaching to places and cultures.
China is almost a continent and as such can offer extremes and opposites at the same time; the ancient and very distant culture can still be observed in remote villages, increasingly surrounded by the advancing and swallowing civilization.
Entering Afghanistan catapults into another dimension: you enter a sphere where time and people do not belong to anything known.
In the area of Bhavnagar (region of Gujarat - India) I could go inside some factories where big iron plates (which arrived from the demolition of boats) were cut, melt and transformed in rods. Those rods are then used in reinforced concrete.