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Though most vacationers look forward to lingering in bed and breakfasting by the pool, guests at the Anantara Golden Triangle Resort typically start their day at the crack of dawn by dragging bundles of sugarcane through the jungle. The reason? They're here to learn to be mahouts, or elephant riders, and before lessons begin they need to find and feed their mounts...
...very much to put so many bullets into his body." Like other residents of Alue Bieng, an idyllically beautiful village in Indonesia's war-ravaged province of Aceh, Bilal heard the shots in the early hours of June 3 but didn't dare to venture outside until well past dawn. The sight that greeted him is so commonplace in Aceh as to be almost banal: Ishak, a 51-year-old farmer who was standing watch over Alue Bieng that night, was sprawled on a wooden platform used by the village's night watchmen, his T shirt pocked with bullet holes...
...vacationers to work alongside mentors who are experts in the field. "It's hands-on real-world experience," he says. "If you want to be a horse trainer, you are there cleaning out the stalls. If you want to try out cheesemaking, you are going to be up at dawn milking the cows." The average trip lasts a weekend and costs between $500 and $1,000, including a follow-up session with a career coach if you're serious about making the leap to a new occupation...
...been a long road for Peljto. In 1992, she hid in a basement shelter narrowly missed by artillery rounds. Days later, she and her family escaped the war in Bosnia in a car that kept running out of gas, making it through military check-points on a pre-dawn spring morning and eventually arriving in Slovenia, where Hana first learned basketball...
...began at the stroke of midnight on Jan. 20 and ended at dawn on Feb. 26—lasting a total of one month, 5 days and 22 hours, raging in the Yard, in the House dining halls and over House-open lists and causing the death of 250 goldfish...