Have you ever wondered what the national sport is in Mexico? If someone had asked me before, I wouldn't have guessed that it was a combination of rodeo and horseback riding called charréria. Unlike bullfights, no animals are killed, but they are not treated the best either. There are several…
The war in Ukraine forced people to go to the streets all over the world. Canada wasn’t an exception. This was already the second Anti-war Rally in Vancouver in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday afternoon to show solidarity and support for Ukraine. I…
I was just on my way home passing downtown in Vancouver and I desperately needed to get some sleep. Suddenly, I started hearing some noise and I noticed the huge cars with Canadian flags were honking on the streets. Then I realized, a large truck convoy was about to start…
Many families in the Andean highlands of Peru keep the ancient tradition of offering ceremonies. One of them is the offering ceremony for Pachamama, which means Mother Earth and it's normally held in August. Through the offering ceremony Andean people “pay” to Mother Earth for everything she gave them. In…
The Inti Raymi is a traditional festival of the Incas. The ceremony is held on the shortest day of the year, June 24th, as a celebration of the winter solstice and the new year. Inti Raymi was the most important ceremony of the Inca Empire. During the Inca times, it…
Today, in Peru there is the second round of presidential elections. Peruvians are choosing between far-left teacher Pedro Castillo and right-wing politician Keiko Fujimori. Even though on Sundays is still an immobilization, the city of Cusco was full of cars and people coming from their homes to polling places. It…
A topic that is difficult to talk about, but it has been written and said a lot. It is part of our history and what has happened has affected almost all of Europe and should never happen again. Many consider a visit to Chernobyl to be "dark tourism" and others…