Sacred places

Forest Temple

Suffering originates in the mind; The cessation of suffering originates in the mind.

March 24, 2018
Let’s Meditate!

A few days before facing the difficult task of Vipassana meditation in the mountains in the north of Thailand, we come across a government building used as a meditation center.

March 9, 2018
Stone Giants

The giants’ voices leaped in the air to a height that none of us had ever dreamed of. They ran down the hill, cheerful, to the rhythm of Dimitri Shostakovich’s symphony № 7. Until the center of Varna they runs through stories and moments that some have never forgotten.

November 18, 2017
Korduanovo Church

In Kazakhstan you can find many ghost towns. About one such Soviet town Zhanatas, we told in our last article. But there are many other small towns, which are very old and about which practically nothing is known.

November 4, 2017
Jewish Cemetery

Being a small girl, I was always passing these two abandoned and forgotten by everyone cemeteries. But now we have Stalker, so it’s time to catch the passing epoch, and leave some traces of it.

August 16, 2017
Ivo Lucon

While visiting the Veneland amusement park in Morocco, an old church across the street catches our eye. “Wow, I wish it were abandoned”, this is what I immediately thought. And it was.

April 5, 2017
Old traditions in the Armenian mountains

A traveller en route to Dilijan (Դիլիջան), in Armenia’s Tavush province, was offered a lift by a local who became an informal guide. About 20 km from the town and roughly a 30‑minute drive—10 minutes on paved road and 20 minutes up a rough dirt track—they left the car where the ascent became impassable and walked up […]

January 25, 2017