Donkey Cart

Three generations of Afghan women have found joy, after losing everything as refugees, amid the leafy zucchinis and plush potatoes of their community garden plot in Regina. The women fled the Central Asian country during the Soviet invasion of the 1980s, pulling their belongings in a donkey cart…

You will see a lot of new cars on the roads in Bulgaria, with a good mix of Trabants, Ladas and Skodas from a bygone era. But the the donkey cart is still a widely used form of transport throughout the country. You will find that a large percentage of villagers have a donkey and a cart, though…

Jump to the full entry & travel map Turpan, ChinaTurpan is a little town with lots of markets and avenues lined with grape……Just more grapes.After a lazy afternoon 5 of us went for a ride on a donkey cart through the outlying villages. This was the most enjoyable…

Associate Press Fatah says 57 of its activists have sneaked out of Hamas-ruled Gaza in recent days to reach the West Bank for a key party convention. One Fatah delegate says she put on Islamic dress and rode past a Hamas checkpoint on a donkey cart on Friday. The Islamic militant Hamas and…

Jump to the full entry & travel map Kathmandu, NepalNumber of countries visited: 10Distance travelled overland: 20,000km……sampan, boat, cable-car, moving walkway, toboggan, tarpaulin, donkey, donkey cart, donkey-drawn carriage, horse, minivan, random guy's…

Palestinian men bury the body of 4-year-old Lama Hamdan at Beit Hanoun cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip December 30, 2008. Lama and her sister were reportedly riding a donkey cart Tuesday near a rocket-launching site that was targeted by Israel.Israel and Gaza - The Big Picture -…

New Mexico, 1940. A time in which homesteaders still used burros/donkeys as a means of transportation.Photo by Russell Lee.--[American Memory link]to locate this image, use search terms: burro, cart

Clearly I have depressed all of you into silence with yesterday's posting about Kilmainham Gaol. You came, you read, you slunk away without……roads. That was back when traffic was nothing more than an occasional donkey cart hauling peat; you'd be killed if you tried that now.But I…

On our daily walk through the community garden, the old timers give us green tomatoes and their extra pumpkins. Next year, we are going to try and……land that they inherited from their fathers and grandfathers back in the donkey cart days. Each space is all connected to the others with an…

Jump to the full entry & travel map Rongpu Si, Xizang, ChinaAs we arrived……the whole way due to a recovering broken leg so we decided to stay with her and walk beside the donkey cart she would be riding on. Unfortunately they had banned the donkey carts and now the…

Today's theme is WRINKLED. Since I had posted several photos of the older generation with wrinkles during my recent Silk Road Trip, I will gather……a century taken at The Grape Valley in Turpan, XinJiang Province, China.Donkey cart owner taken at GaoChang Former City in Turpan, XinJiang…

The view of the Koutoubia from our balcony. Each of those "windows" has a blast-horn speaker to shout out the daily calls to prayer. Might-e-fine wakeup call if you want to get up before dawn.Typical of the souks...these are streets, with donkey cart and motor-scooter and foot traffic and all,…

Roast Lamb is a known delicacy in XinJiang province. Tonight our tour group had the whole roast lamb for dinner.. The photo above showing our……become worried again with my obsession. By the way, did u notice the donkey cart opposite the road?This is a nearer view of the donkey cart…

The ruins of the Ancient City of GaoChang (高昌古城) is located nearby HuoYanSan or Flaming Mountain about 46 km southeast of Turpan. The ancient city of Gaochang and Jiaohe, are two of the well preserved ruins of the ancient cities in China.Donkey CartOur donkey cart "driver" :DOn the dusty…

Let's continue with the series in Turpan, XinJiang Province again... And I'm still stuck at Day 3 out of the 10 days tour.. o.OSugong Pagoda ……this Uyghur young chap has smooth skin without any wrinkles.. Unlike the donkey cart uncle and 100+ years old grandpa in the previous two…