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During Songkran, Thailand’s New Year’s and biggest folk festival, people express the joys of spring by slinging bucketfuls of water at each other. These dousings symbolize purity and fertility. This year, the festival takes place April 13 to 15.
Michelin-class vegan fare is still pretty hard to track down – unless, of course, you know exactly where to look!
Miso-honey avocado, daikon, bok choy and black truffle is just one of the many superb creations at the vegetarian-vegan restaurant Nix – the proud holder of a Michelin star since 2017.
The Gauthier used to serve 20 kilograms of controversial foie gras – every week. But now, restaurant owner Alexis Gauthier is planning to banish all animal products from his Michelin-listed restaurant by 2020.
What did the legendary L’Arpège have to lose when it switched to a mainly meat-free menu? Its three Michelin stars! Today, much of what it served here is entirely vegan – and Michelin is still awarding the restaurant top marks.
Neil Armstrong was the first so set foot on the moon in 1969. Fly Me To The Moon. The Moon Landing: 50 Years On opens at Kunsthaus Zürich April 5.
Culture clash
Smells amazing! You don’t just need to see these places with your own eyes, you need to follow your nose and inhale them.
Floral Fragrance
Grasse smells of roses in May and jasmine in August. Each of these blossoms, cherished by many perfumers, has its own festival in the southeastern French town and world capital of perfume, where famous factories offer guided tours.
Sumptuous Sap
You land in Oman, step into a taxi and the heady fragrance of frankincense greets you – as its does later in your hotel, in cafés and in shopping malls… The aromatic resin once brought the sultanate fabulous wealth, and it is still tapped from some 60 000 frankincense trees in the Dhofar region today.
Olfactory onslaught
Not for sensitive noses: Delhis’s Khari Baoli spice market, the largest of its kind in Asia, is enveloped in veritable clouds of aromatic clove, cinnamon and cardamom.
The Tofinu people of Benin in West Africa built a stilt village on Lake Nokoué around 300 years ago. The only way to reach it is still by wooden boat.
Jessica Antola, Photographer, Brooklyn, New York, USA