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A Garden of Earthly Delights — July’s photo shows the Kesar Kyari Bagh, a garden named for the rare saffron flowers which once grew in the star-shaped terraced beds.
It’s at the Amber Fort near Jaipur, India.
Twenty-five readers came “close” to the correct answer (citing the general location but not the name of the garden).
On CHINA, May-June, ’05. . .
by Wayne Wirtanen
(First of three parts)
Partway through my visit to Morocco in September ’04, I realized that there were similarities there to what one might find on a trip in California.
Fifteen hundred years ago, Kairouan was only a desert crossroads, a caravan stop in the sands of what is now Tunisia in North Africa. But this quickly changed. In fewer than 100 years following the death of Muhammad in A.D. 632, caravans from Saudi Arabia had spread his word of Islam from India to the Atlantic Ocean.
by Deanna Palic
CRUISE NEWS
(Third of three parts)
In this issue I will continue last month’s discussion of overseas car rentals and leases.
by Larry G. Barratta, M.D., Ph.D.
What cruise destination is older than most grandmothers, needs an $8 billion face-lift and yet still earns $1 billion in revenues every year? It’s the amazing Panama Canal, one of the seven wonders of the modern world.
Why fix it if it ain’t broke? According to Roberto Alfaro, Panama’s ambassador to the U.S., “Almost 45% of the ships being built today are too wide to go through the canal. In the future, all the ships built will be too wide. So if we don’t enlarge the canal, we will begin to lose business.”
by Jay Brunhouse
One of the delights of the area in which I live, the Laree region of southwest France, is Michel Guérard’s famous restaurant, Eugenie le Bain. My wife and I last ate there at the end of May ’05.
The food was so well prepared and so well presented. After the amuse-bouche (a little starter), my wife had smoked salmon and herring on a coulis (purée) of rocket, then beef and, for dessert, an apricot tart that dissolved in the mouth.