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Travel | Amsterdam | The Secret of Happiness
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Rijksmuseum | Amsterdam | Netherland A merchant sent his son to learn the Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days until he reached a beautiful castle at the top of a mountain. There lived the sage that the young man was looking for. However, instead of finding a holy man, our hero entered a room and saw a great deal of activity; merchants coming and going, people chatting in the corners, a small orchestra playing sweet melodies, and there was a table laden with the most delectable dishes of that part of the world.…
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Travel and Photography | Take Me To Ubud | Bali Most Literary Town
© 2014 Hello Bali Magazine | October 2013 Issue | Volume 18 | No 10 © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Penestanan Rice Field | Ubud | Bali People came from from all over the world to visit Bali for wide variety of reason. Bali is known for its exotic location, island of a thousand temples, yes there are thousand of them, one of the reason is that, at the minimum each village have three main temple or “pura”. Anyway like I said, people visited Bali for wide variety of a reason, some like its beaches especially to surf and some others because of spiritual reason and artistic reason. For me…
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Why Travel? | Life is a Journey | Once Upon a Time in Kashmir
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time in Kashmir | Dal Lake Kashmir “People from all over the world have passed through this village, son,” said his father. “They come in search of new things, but when they leave they are basically the same people they were when they arrived. They climb the mountain to see the castle, and they wind up thinking that the past was better than what we have now. They have blond hair, or dark skin, but basically they’re the same as the people who live right here.” “But I’d like to see the castles in the towns where they live,” the boy explained.…