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An hour in Dikili 🇹🇷 This guy and his cat are my white whale 📸 and other scenes from winter in Çandarlı 🇹🇷 In between editing, transcribing, translating, and writing, sometimes I take my little Pentax QS1 on walks. This was yesterday’s sunset on Türkiye’s Aegean Sea 🩵🩷 My essay Responsible Tourism in the Amazon: Travelling Beyond the “Exotic” and “Authentic” For Meaningful Journeys is live on Substack, Patreon, and my blog! 🤩 How can we travel more responsibly, especially in remote locations? What can I say about 2025? [English below] I was lucky enough to be invited to a traditional Yukuna ritual dance this past weekend. I ate smoked bushmeat with casabe and had my hands dyed for spiritual protection. The men danced and the women joined them, and I shared mambe (coca leaf powder) with the women. It was a healing dance, a mourning dance, a special event that doesn’t happen often. I’ll share more later but wanted to post a few photos of now that my hands are still blue. I know I’ve been MIA the past couple of weeks but I was in the middle of the jungle with limited electricity and internet access. I was staying in San Martín de Amacayacu, an indigenous Tikuna community a couple of hours upriver from Leticia, in Amacayacu National Park.

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