Tuesday 4 December 2018

Santiago fiesta in Huancayo


In Latin America they have a special cult of Santiago Matamoro, or Saint James the Killer of Muslims. In Huancayo in the middle of Peru they make street fiestas in his honour. They have a figure of Santiago on a white horse and they dance around it. Apparently all August there are street fiestas like that. 










Tuesday 2 October 2018

Ancient Australian painting

One can see these in some caves in Kakadu National Park in the Top End of Australia. 
Nobody really knows when these pictures were created. Some say a few thousands years ago, but nobody knows for sure. 
Nobody really knows what for either. Some anthropologists say they have very important ritual meaning, although nobody knows for sure. They could just as well been painted by stone age hooligans on the walls of stone age habitations. 










Tuesday 25 September 2018

Roads in Arizona


Roads that are straight as far as you can see and you can drive for hours on end and they seem never to end – well, there aren't many places in the world where you can see that.