Jiří Kalát – Jaguar Traveller

Brochow, a dark place in Wroclaw.  This is one of the names for this southern Wroclaw neighborhood. Is it possible at all to create a leisure-time center in this district? That is the question of our reporters……………… celý článek…

The voice of muezzin is flying in the streets and calling people to the near mosque for evening pray. It is very romantic, imagine man, how to his open hands is shooting appeal for all of the town’s inhabitants.  However in the time of technical progress even this function was assumed by amplifiers and records. One of the few, the Big mosque in Mecca is still loyal to tradition, which start in the time of the prophet. Those modern ones are often critizing by orthodox Muslim’s leaders.
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“I lend you my suit jacket, if you would like, it will look more formal,” laughs at me Wajdi, Palestinian from Nablus. I am looking on myself, trekking shoes, army trousers and T-shirt with silly legend. I have no idea, how the suit jacket will help me look more formal, but I wear it and hope.  We are preparing ourselves for “jaha”, which is local pre-wedding tradition.  Men from both families, friends a kiths shake a hand with the future groom and with the closest male members of the family of fiancé. He is officially asking them to marry her. celý článek…

Above the ground is still possible see the morning fog, when our three-man group stopped near of the abandoned fortresses. This fortification was used in Six days war in year 1967, when Syria lost this area once for all.  Wrecks of tanks and other army vehicles, alike the mines fields around, gave to the scene element of nostalgia. Bunker, else buried almost to his half size in to the ground, was still looking full of fighting capacity.  33 years ago in his bowels were hidden soldiers, which were trying to escape from falling enemy’s bombs. Old rusty weapons leaved here to their destiny, still aim at east, from where is expecting the new attack of the “barbarian” soldiers, which will came to destroy the Holy land.  Weapons stand here like warning. “We can be replace with new once, fully functional, in few hours,” like they would like to say. Peace and quiet, almost no move, jus group of the wild pigs are running across the mines fields, directly to Syria. To whom they can be afraid here?
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