Amritsar is located in the northwestern region of Punjab, a prolific green valley surrounded by rice fields, and in which not long ago was rampant the Maharajas, extending his glittering reign to beyond present-day Pakistan, where today in a small artificial village that serves as called Attari border.

Photography by s_w_ellis

The Golden Temple:

India is a country that never ceases to amaze. In the least expected corner of this country is Amritsar, which is hardly frequented by Western tourism, but where the traveler can find an artistic jewel as impressive as the Golden Temple or (Golden Temple – named after speaking tourists English), this is a palace that represents the ultimate symbol of Sikhism in India, architecture is a mixture of Islamic and Hindu, can be seen in a great building that will leave you breathless, this job is no less than 750 kilograms of gold since the reign of Maharaja Anjit Singh. (más…)

There is a place in India at all ardent devotees of Hinduism in its many manifestations come to celebrate the end of his life. Called Varanasi (Sanskrit, Varanasi) and is at the confluence of the rivers Varuna and Asi, along the sacred Ganges.

Photography by David S. Lowry

At the site there are hundreds of sadhus (Hindu priests), sick and elderly who are on the last leg of its existence that sojourn in the same direction, to make their final prayers and ablutions in the sacred waters of Mother Ganga, between cows , buffalo, dogs, goats, monkeys, fishermen, women doing laundry and children laughing and playing happily while bathing in the river, apparently oblivious to everything going on around them. (más…)

Whitechapel is a London district whose heart is in Whitechapel High Street. Among the century. XVII and XIX its population grew by the arrival of people from the countryside. Around 1840, this impoverished area of London was terrorized by the murders of Jack the Ripper “in Spanish castizo, Jack” the Ripper “, a pseudonym for a murderer and his crimes that announced in the newspapers. The victims were women, mostly prostitutes and murder being perpetrated in places not particularly obscure. I will not say anything about the procedure butcher who delighted, but the legends surrounding this murderer to think that should be a physician, surgeon, or just that, a butcher. So today, I was scared to death inside the fog of London, following the trail of Jack, Whitechapel High Street … (más…)