Landlocked Subs, the Secret Cistern, and an Empty Capital City
March 4th, 2008 Posted in Leffel projects, Perceptive Travel, contests
Yes indeed, it’s time for the March/April issue of Perceptive Travel. We’ve got another odd assortment of features you won’t find anywhere else, offbeat travel tales from wandering book authors, with a side helping of book reviews and world music rundowns.
The landlocked subs are just one historic oddity of Lake Issyk–Kul in Kyrgyzstan. (Try saying that place five times fast without sounding like you’re trying to hock a loogey.) Naked Olympics author Tony Perrottet checks out the secret cistern of Mycenae and sleeps in the seemingly unchanged 1876 bed of a famous architect in Agamemnon’s Fan Club. Robert Reid comes back from researching a Burma guidebook to report on that country’s strangely empty capital city of Naypyidaw.
Another guidebook author, Michael Buckley, takes us through the watery and inland Karst landscapes of Vietnam. The author of several books on the Caribbean gives us a tour of local church life in the tropics.
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3 Responses to “Landlocked Subs, the Secret Cistern, and an Empty Capital City”
By Curtis on Mar 5, 2008
Oil companies are ridiculousl. I think the number one priority for the world right now would be to find more efficient fuel and put those oil tycoons out of business!
By Joey on Mar 5, 2008
Um, okay dude. But maybe you’ve landed on the wrong blog? Put down the pipe…
By Marilyn Terrell on Mar 10, 2008
Lake Issykul has a supernatural quality to it I think:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simontaylor/1241900024/