The Tempestuous Magic of Chilean Patagonia

Jerry Giddings

By the time I persuade Cristina and Marco Ríos, Mari Mari’s veterinarian and stable manager, to take me horseback riding on my final morning, the late-autumn weather has become almost storybook in its drama. We saddle up our horses at the stables, wind screeching, and I get to know Palta […]

The Selling & Buying of Heads in Bali

Jerry Giddings

With the ongoing return of Mainland Chinese Tourists to Bali and the rest of Indonesia, the insidious problem of selling off booked tourists, termed in Indonesian as the purchase and sale of foreign tourist heads (jual-beli kepala), is once again rearing its ugly head. The Provincial Secretary of Bali, Dewa […]