Nude Sikhs, Third Eyes, and Busloads Looking at a Big Rock

Yes, it’s time for a new issue of the Perceptive Travel webzine , where I serve as humble editor. As usual we dispense with the usual travel mag fluff and bring you some offbeat stories from book authors.

Joel Carillet brings you a story about Amritsar, India, that involves the search for a taboo pizza and even more unholy things on a cell phone screen. Michael Buckley relates the strange story of a mystical Tibetan lama that was not at all what he appeared. Graham Reid visits Uluru in Australia and takes a different path to avoid the tour buses.

I step up to do the world music reviews, from African Reggae to Tuvan throat singers. See it all here: Perceptive Travel February ’09 .

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