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Yes, Even More BEST Virtual Vacations from T-Boy

By Ed Boitano
in :  World Travel
Burmese praying at pagoda

You may not be traveling to far-away places in the immediate future, but we can bring them to you. Here’s T-Boy’s Fourth installment of Virtual Trips by our staff. We hope you’ll be able to put on your traveling shoes and experience the following distant destinations soon.

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Memorable Meals: Edible Milestones from Around the World

By Fyllis Hockman
in :  World Travel
Wednesday night pig roast at the Hermitage Inn, Nevis Island

Enjoying our first dinner during a group tour of Sicily, I turned to our guide and told him that the meal was excellent. This being Sicily, the reply was not all that surprising. “You can steal my money but don’t touch my food,” Alessio remarked. He followed that remark by claiming: “If lunch or dinner doesn’t have at least five courses, it’s just a snack.”

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Myanmar: Whose People Shine as Bright as their Gleaming Pagodas

By Fyllis Hockman
in :  World Travel
selling vegetables at a local market in Myanmar

It was such a serendipitous meeting. While strolling the gilded Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar's most sacred Buddhist shrine, we stopped to talk to a monk. A very chatty fellow of 51, and a monk for over 25 years, he was very eager to show us the photos from his recent trip to Japan – yup, on his Smartphone. When he actually invited us to lunch at his monastery two days hence, things got even more interesting.

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Myanmar, A Country of Contrasts: Pagodas, Culture and Controversy

By Fyllis Hockman
in :  World Travel
Burmese praying at pagoda

There is very little that can entice me to get up at 4 a.m. but how often do you get a chance to bathe a Buddha? And not just any Buddha but one that the actual real Buddha is said to have embraced himself. The statue at Maha Muni Pagoda in Mandalay, Myanmar is believed to be one of only five likenesses of Buddha created during his lifetime. And the daily cleansing ritual for the hundreds of pilgrims who attend is both literal and spiritual.

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