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See http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/feb/27video.htm.

Following is from http://www.byofilmfestival.com/index.htm:

Bring Your Own Film Festival (BYOFF) is an annual event held during February every year on Puri beach. To call it just a film festival is to limit its unique magical quality. It’s a festival without hierarchy, competition, juries and awards where not only filmmakers but also artists from other fields like music, theatre, painting, sculpture, dance, literature and photography are encouraged to participate and show their work.

In short, BYOFF can be best described as an informal and intimate gathering of artists with films in the backdrop where screenings go on early into the morning hours- first, inside makeshift tents and then in the open air after sun down.

For filmmakers, it has been an alternative platform ever since its first edition in the year 2004. The idea is to have a festival away from the oppressive atmosphere of bureaucratic control of big cities and where just about anybody – with or without films – could participate. The participants of BYOFF themselves are the volunteers and the organizers of its future editions. And the mood of the festival is that of a no holds barred carnival where the sea and its sand provide the right ambience to lift the spirits of every one present. Yeah, for five days and five nights.

Following are some excerpts from it.

Gopalpur, with its grand views of sunrise over the Bay of Bengal, is the final destination of the week my wife Clare and I are spending in Orissa, one of India’s least-visited states. It rises to densely forested hills from coastal paddy fields fringed with palm trees and ponds of hyacinths. It feels remote, but has good transport connections with Calcutta and Madras and would suit visitors ready to move on from the Indian “starter pack” of Kerala and the Delhi-Agra-Jaipur Golden Triangle.

Its fame rests on its temples. As our train from Calcutta pulls in at Bhubaneswar, the state capital, I read that the city has about 500 of them. This is not necessarily good news. Over 15 Indian trips, many long afternoons of padding across warm temple floors have left me “templed out”. So what a pleasant surprise Bhubaneswar’s temples will turn out to be.

The city, with its broad avenues and plush hotels – notably the elegant Trident Hilton – has little of the hustle and bustle of a state capital. Its parks, gardens and languid cyclists give it the easygoing charm of small-town India.

Update: As per Dharitri, the current largest aquarium in the country is in Paradeep which is built in an area of 1.5 acres.

Following is an excerpt from a news item on this in the Statesman.

The holy city of Puri will soon have a modern sea-aquarium, with an approximate investment of Rs 2 crore.

Complying with the request of the Speaker Mr Maheswar Mohanty, who happens to be the local MLA, chief minister Mr Naveen Patnaik has asked the tourism department to take necessary steps. It is said that the sea-aquarium is going to be the largest in the country.

Presiding over in a high-level meeting, which was attended by tourism minister Debi Prasad Mishra, tourism secretary Asit Tripathy, culture secretary Gopinath Mohanty, Paradip Port Trust (PPT) vice-chairman Subrat Tripathy and Puri collector Rashmi Ranjan Patnaik, Speaker Mr. Mohanty informed that the technical support for the project will be provided by PPT. This will be a major tourist attraction, he hoped.

Following is an excerpt on this from the Pioneer.

The Jagannath Temple administration would develop a new state-of-the-art passenger bus terminal at an estimated cost of over Rs 100 crore on 42 acre of its own land located near the Samagara village on the outskirts of the town, said SC Mahapatra, the temple’s chief administrator at a Press meet on Thursday. Within six months the temporary bus stand operating at Talabania would be shifted to the new place. Primary infrastructure like fencing, provisions of basic amenities and security arrangements would be put on place before the scheduled shifting, Mahapatra said. A pilgrim shelter for 500 pilgrims would be constructed in the complex equipped with eateries and shopping centres. Two crore would be spent now for the purpose, said Mahapatra. Besides Rs 35 crore would be spent for the development of the existing parking place functioning at Jagannath Ballav alongside the Badadanda (Grand Road). NTPC would bear the cost of the development, he said. Among other things the temple plans to include resumption of temple kitchen and Ananda Bazaar (Mahaprasad selling and dinning place in the temple complex) reconstruction work after the Kartik Brata and installation of a donation collection box at the premises of Jaydev Bhavan in Bhubaneswar.

Following is from a report in Odisha.in.

1st Day – 23.11.2007 (Friday)
Ø       Lighting the lamp at the lotus feet of “Sri Sri Jagannath Mahaprabhu” & declare the festival open – 5.30 p.m.

Ø       Veda Patha – by Students of Veda Karmakanda Vidyalaya,Puri

Ø       Sankh Dhwani – Subhashree Sankha Dhwani Kalakendra, Ganjam

Ø       Odissi Group Dance by Guru Naba Kishore Mishra & Troupe, Abartta, Bhubaneswar

Ø       Chadeiya Folk Dance – Subhashree Sankha Dhwani Kalakendra, Ganjam

Ø       Sambalpuri Dance – by Kala Vikas Kendra, Cuttack

Ø       Ranappa Folk Dance – Subhashree Sankha Dhwani Kalakendra, Ganjam

Ø       Chhow Dance by Mayur Art Centre, BBSR

Ø       Tribal Dance by Dist. Council , Boudh

Ø       Creative Dance Ballet by – Shri Krishna Cultural Academy, Puri

Ø       Inauguration by Shri Muralidhar Chandrakant Bhandare, His Excellency Governor of Orissa

Ø       Shri Maheswar Mohanty, Hon’ble Speaker OLA (Chief Guest)

Ø       Shri Deviprasad Mishra, Hon’ble Minister – Excise & Tourism (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Debasis Nayak, Hon’ble Minister – I&PR & Sports & Y.S (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Asit Tripathy, IAS, Commissioner-cum-Secy. Tourism (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Gourahari Pradhan, Chairman Puri Municipality (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Dr. Mrs. Vaijanitmala Bali, Noted Actress (Guest of Honour)

2nd Day – 24.11.2007 (Saturday)
Dignitaries & Guests for the Evening
Ø       Odissi Dance Ballet – Kabita Dwibedi & Troupe, New Delhi

Ø       Kathak Dance Ballet – Keya Chand & Troupe, Kolkata

Ø       Folk & Creative Dances by Song & Drama Division, Kolkata

Ø       Sambalpuri Dance – Sanskrutika, Padmapur, Bargarh

Ø       Gotipua Dance by Konark Natya Manda

Ø       Danda Dance by Khedu Sahu & Troupe, Athamallik sponsored by Sankarcharya Pradhan, Angul

Ø       Creative Dances by Keya Chand & Group, Kolkata

Ø       Creative Dance Ballet – Swagatika Sanskrutika Sansad, BBSR
Ø       Sports Activities sponsored by Dept. of Sports & Youth Services, Govt. of Orissa

Ø       Country Boat Race among local Nolias(3.30pm), Flag off by Sri Pyari Mohan Mohapatra, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) & Sri Debashish Nayak, Minister, Sports & I&PR, Govt. of Orissa

Ø       Beach Volley ball -(Women) – 4pm & Beach Cricket (Girl) – 3.45pm

Special Attraction Para-Sailing (11.00 am to 5.00 pm).

MEGA NITE:
(Mrs. Hema Malini with Daughters Eesha & Ahana Deol)

Ø       Shri Pyari Mohan Mohapatra, Hon’ble Member Rajayasabha (Chief Guest)

Ø       Shri Prafulla Chandra Ghadei, Hon’ble Minister Finance (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Dr. Prasanna Patsani, Hon’ble MP- Loksabha (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Tathagat Satpathy Hon’ble MP Loksabha (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri C R Pradhan, Chairman (NALCO) (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Srimay Kar, Chief of Bureau – Indian Express (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri S C Patnaik, Secy, Sports – 3.30 pm & 6.00 pm (Guest of Honour)

3rd Day – 25.11.2007 (Sunday)

Ø       Odissi Dance Ballet  &  Braja Leela by Kunja Lata & Troupe, Venunad Kalakendra,Brundaban (U.P.)

Ø       Bharat Natyam group dance by – Kashmira Samanta & Group, Kolkata

Ø       Purulia Chhow, of West Bengal by EZCC, Kolkata,

Ø       Siddi Dhamal of Gujrat by WZCC, Udaipur

Ø       Bhangra Dance of Punjab by NZCC, Patiala

Ø       Folk & Creative Dances by – Song & Drama Division, Kolkata

Ø       Contemporary Dances by Kashmira Samanta & Group, Kolkata

Ø       Creative Dances by – Ritz & Amit Dance Academy, Angul

Ø       Sports Activities sponsored by Dept. of Sports & Youth Services, Govt. of Orissa

Ø       Women Beach Kabadi – 4pm. , Banati (Hoola) – 6pm.

Special Attraction Para-Sailing (11.00 am to 5.00 pm).
Ø       Shri Chandrasekhar Sahu, Hon’ble Union Minister of State – RD (Chief Guest)

Ø       Shri Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo, Hon’ble Minister UD&PE (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Baijant Panda, Hon’ble MP – Rajyasabha (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Gopal Chandra Nanda, IPS, DG Police (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Padmanabha Behera, Hon’ble Minister, Steel & Mines (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Ravi Narayan Nanda, Director, Tourism (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri L N Pattnaik, Chairman Pollution Control Board (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Head of ETV – Oriya, (Guest of Honour)

4th Day – 26.11.2007 (Monday)

Dignitaries & Guests for the Evening

Ø       Orissa Dance Ballet  – by Guru Gajendra Panda & Troupe, Tridhara, Bhubaneswar

Ø       “Breath of life” in Odissi Style by Guru Chita Ranjan Acharya & Troupe, Bhubaneswar

Ø       Purulia Chhow of West Bengal by EZCC, Kolkata,

Ø       Siddi Dhamal of Gujarat by WZCC, Udaipur

Ø       Bhangra Dance of Punjab by NZCC, Patiala
Ø       Sports Activities sponsored by Dept. of Sports & Youth Services, Govt. of Orissa

Ø       Wrestling – 4pm., Body Building – 6pm.

Special Attraction Para-Sailing (11.00 am to 5.00 pm).

MEGA MUMBAI NITE
Amit Paul & Ankita Mishra – Indian Idol (3)

Ø       Shri Surya Narayan Patra, Hon’ble Minister, Energy, IT & Culture (Chief Guest)

Ø       Shri Manmohan Samal, Hon’ble Minister, Revenue (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Suresh Chandra Mohapatra, IAS, RDC Central Zone (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Sanjay Pattnaik, Chief Resident Executive, TISCO (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Director – Door Darshan, Orissa (Guest of Honour)

CLOSING CEREMONY
5th Day – 27.11.2007 (Tuesday) Dignitaries & Guests for the Evening

Ø       Odissi Dance Ballet “Sarad Rasa” by – Leena Mohanty & Group, Banshi Bilasha , Bhubaneswar

Ø       Purulia Chhow, West Bengal by EZCC, Kolkata,

Ø       Siddi Dhamal of Gujarat by WZCC, Udaipur

Ø       Bhangra Dance of Punjab by NZCC, Patiala

Ø       Nritya Vahar – A Dhiman Sankar Ballet Presentation, Kolkata

Ø       Creative Dances – by Habiba Dance Group, BBSR, Direction by Sarat Malia

Ø       Sports Activities sponsored by Dept. of Sports & Youth Services, Govt. of Orissa

Ø       Mal Khamb – 5pm., Rugby (KIITS – 4pm.

Special Attraction Para-Sailing (11.00 am to 5.00 pm).

Ø       Shri Maheswar Mohanty, Hon’ble Speaker OLA (Chief Guest)

Ø       Shri Biswa Bhusan Harichandan, Hon’ble Minister RD, Law, Industries (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Ajit Tripathy, IAS, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Orissa

Ø       Shri Rashmi Ranjan Pattnaik, Collector, Puri (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Asit Panigrahi, SP, Puri (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri S R Upadhya, Chairman-cum-MD, MCL (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Indrajeet Mohanty, Hon’ble Justice-Orissa High Court (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Smt. Jagi Mangat Panda, MD- Ortel Communication (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Sanak Mishra, Chief of Mittal Steel India Chaptger, New Delhi (Guest of Honour)

N. B.

||  Exhibition timing from 11.00 am to 10.00 pm  ||

||  Cultural Programmes daily starts at 6.00 pm  ||

||  Sports items as per timing mentioned each day  ||

Following is an excerpt from a New Indian Express report on this.

Hotel Hindustan International Group announced its arrival in the city with HHI Bhubaneswar having 104 luxury rooms in four different categories, a spa, banquet, dedicated swimming pool and a lawn over a sprawling 11,000 sq ft.

The star hotel which promises to provide quality services is looking to tap the ever-growing business class travellers from across India and abroad. For a start, each room will have plasma TVs, Wi-Fi connectivity and toilets with four compartments besides other amenities.

The hotel, at Kharvela Nagar where once another such property stood, has seen an investment of Rs 50 crore and boasts of a total makeover.

It has a dedicated “kebab centre” called “Kebaabs Unlimited”, a 24-hour multi-cuisine restaurant “Flavours”, “The Lounge Bar” besides business centre facility. Underground, a party floor, will soon add to the charm. HHI Bhubaneswar is the group’s third unit …

Jaiswal said that the group was planning a beach resort at Puri and is in talks with the Orissa Government for this.

1. Deecan Herald, Bangalore  On Puri and Raghuraj pur. Excerpts: “There you have 752 ovens,” he said and grinned at me. I got more attentive to the building and to what the panda (priest) had been saying about the famous Jagannath Temple of Puri in Orissa. “We have 400 cooks and 200 helpers and four to five lakhs of earthen handis of prasadam are cooked every day, consisting of ghee-rice, khichdi, different vegetable preparations and a host of sweetmeats,” he added. We were still at the stepped courtyard that leads to the Pidha deul (outer sanctum) of the temple.

   There seemed to be a preoccupation with food, I thought. And Dasarathji soon explained why. “Lord Vishnu wakes up in Dwarka in the west, meditates in Badrinath in the north and then takes his bath at Rameswaram in the south,” he said. I now understood the bathing ritual at Rameswaram I had witnessed there some years ago. Dasarathji continued, “Then the Lord comes here, to Puri, to have His food.”

2. OutlookIndia.com on the aftermath of the 1999 super-cyclone. Excerpts: The figures speak for themselves. Practically every family that lost their home received money to construct a concrete house. Some 221 healthcare units were built or restored along with nearly a thousand km of road, 500 agro-service centres, 2,555 lift-irrigation facilities, 8,890 primary schools and 1,149 high school buildings. …                                                                                                                                                                                               "We’ve trained people from each coastal village in rescue operations and first aid. They form the backbone of the shelters and we hold refresher courses for them once in three months," OSDMA MD Nikunja K. Sundaray told Outlook. In addition, the agency has drawn on personnel from the state armed police to form the Orissa Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF), which has platoon-strength units stationed in five coastal locations. Four hundred communication posts, equipped with VHF sets and satellite phones, are strung out along the coast to provide early warnings.

   The agency proved its mettle on September 13, when a tsunami warning sounded in the early evening. "Within a few minutes, people in all the coastal districts were alerted," Sundaray said. "And within two hours, we had evacuated lakhs of people to safer places, including the cyclone shelters." In fact, the UNDP was so impressed that it is now studying their response mechanism as a model for other countries. On its own initiative, the OSDMA is offering disaster management consultancy to other states.

   Orissa received thousands of crores of rupees in aid after the cyclone.Amazingly, not a single allegation of corruption or irregularities in distribution of relief has surfaced. Baijayant (Jay) Panda, the BJD MP, recalls that immediately after coming to power in early 2000, CM Naveen Patnaik drew up guidelines to ensure that "relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction had to be efficient and transparent, without any bias and corruption," and that all such projects were strictly monitored. "We’ve evolved a set of clear benchmarks and ‘best practices’ that are now being emulated by other states," he told Outlook. Even Opposition leaders in Orissa concede the remarkable achievements of the government’s relief and rehab efforts, which have shown that a gust of ill wind can be harnessed to blow some good.

3. OutlookIndia.com on Bhubaneswar and the accessibility of Orissa government. Excerpts: Orissa’s rulers and administrators have maintained Bhubaneswar’s ethos, unlike in West Bengal where we have defiled, destroyed or made ugly even what we inherited from the British. Bhubaneswar is not congested, and never will be, since building regulations are strictly implemented unlike in Kolkata where politicians sponsor slums and unauthorized colonies that have made this city not only an urban mess, but one of the ugliest in the world.

   Bhubaneswar was devastated just eight years ago by the super-cyclone; the city not only displays no signs of that, but has learnt from that experience and adopted a number of measures to cope with such calamities in future. Kolkata would have wallowed in that misery for decades and used it to justify its miserable state.

   Clean & Efficient

   There’s an air of efficiency to everything in Bhubaneswar. On a visit to the state secretariat there, I couldn’t help comparing it to our Writers’ Building. A well-manicured, lush garden greets visitors, unlike the chaos that reigns supreme outside Writers’. Inside, I was surprised by the absence of any crowds. There were no pot-bellied cops lounging around, no pan-chewing hangers-on, no parasitic touts, no babus scurrying around with bulky files, no peons chatting in the corridors and loud crowds waiting to gain entry to meet ministers and bureaucrats. Even the Chief Minister’s Secretariat looked uncluttered, free of fixers and the babus all seemed to be working.

   I’m told that after coming to power in 2000, Naveen Patnaik brought about this sea change. Touts, fixers and other undesirables were banned entry. Visitors’ entry was streamlined and ministers and bureaucrats asked to devote time to meet people instead of keeping them waiting. The administration was made extremely responsive, efficient, transparent, and largely honest. The number of cops on duty at the secretariat was sharply reduced to the bare minimum. All employees were asked to be courteous and helpful and turn up for work smartly.

   The secretariat building is simple, but clean and well-maintained, sans all those employees’ union posters, betel-leaf stains, dust, cobwebs and garbage that predominates Writers’. Overall, the seat of governance in Orissa is a pleasant place and emits a positive aura that not only puts visitors at ease, but also conveys the impression that works gets done. It does, and I found that out first-hand.

   Accessible To All

   Having encountered, quite frustratingly, Bengal’s politicians and bureaucrats for the past few years, meeting their Orissa counterparts was like inhaling a breath of fresh air. I sought, and got, appointments with top bureaucrats at very short notices. In Kolkata, everyone would have made me wait for days and in only very rare cases would have agreed to meet me. It is quite easy to meet Ministers and the Chief Minister or to talk to them over the phone, unlike in Bengal where ministers and bureaucrats make themselves inaccessible.

Update: The Orissa government’s tourism web page has additional information on the Shamuka beach project.

Following is an excerpt on this from Expresshospitality.com.

Shamuka Beach in Orissa near Puri is being developed as a high-end luxury tourism destination by the Orissa Tourism Development Corporation. The department has acquired a 1000 acre property south of Puri, and is in the process of acquiring 2000 acres more. It is a natural island and is being developed by the name Shamuka Beach project. Divulging further details about the project, Asit K Tripathi, secretary, Orissa Tourism, says, "It is going to be one of India’s best integrated, dedicated and up market tourism project, with only 5-star hotels. We had advertised and the response has been overwhelming. We have got responses from leading players in the country as well as abroad. ITC-Welcomgroup, the DLF-Hilton combine, Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, IHHR’s Ananda Spa, Casino Group of Hotels Earth (CGH Earth), The Oberoi Group, Apeejay Surrendra Group, Marriott International, and Carlson Hotels Asia Pacific have all shown interest. We can allot land to approximately 20 national and international hotel brands. We are coming out with a blue print to develop infrastructure. The third stage will be to establish a golf course and convention center. This will raise the value of Orissa as a leisure destination." "Although we have 934 hotels in Orissa and 2000 rooms, the majority cater to primarily low spending groups, and the rest target high spending tourists or corporates. With this initiative, within 1-2 years, we will have more quality rooms," says Devi Prasad Mishra, tourism minister, Orissa. Samukha Beach and Puri, as well as industrial growth centers like Paradeep, Talcher, Kalinganagar, as well as Jharsuguda and Angul have generated interest from the hospitality industry in recent times – especially budget hotels and business hotels. The no-frills brand of The Indian Hotels Company, Ginger Hotels opened their first hotel in Bhubaneshwar. Carlson Hotels Asia Pacific plans to open its Radisson Hotels & Resorts in Chilika, Puri and Bhubaneswar. Cabana Group, the master licensee of the world-renowned chain of hotels – Best Western International from California is setting-up an international standard culinary college cum 5-star property in Bhubaneswar, and is eyeing Puri to develop the brand.

Pioneer reports that an oyster park will be created in Puri.

Excerpts”

The Puri coast will soon have an international oyster development project covering about 3,000 acres of the sea beach to attract more and more tourists from abroad. 31 corporate giants and industrial houses both from India and abroad, for which the State Government received applications recently, will fund this ambitious project.Announcing this to the Press, State Tourism Minister Debi Prasad Mishra said that in addition to this, global quotations would be invited for the establishment of a new ‘Conference and Golf Tourism’ in the same belt in Puri district as the State has vast potential for such type of ventures for tourism development .

The Government has also decided to go ahead with a new project named ‘Camp Tourism’ in the vast coastline connecting Puri, Rajahansa in Chilika, Sanaparikuda and Harachandi Temple to attract tourist traffic to various spots.

For this, the Government has introduced a Mega Circuit Area Development Project to operate in the area.

The Minister further said that the Government is hopeful of at least 20 per cent increase in tourist flow to the State this year. He said special attention would be given for heritage tourism, cultural tourism, eco tourism, beach tourism, Buddhist — Jain temple tourism and tribal and rural tourism.“

A business standard article on monsoon tourism talks about Goa, Kerala and Orissa. Following is what it says about Orissa.

The monsoon at one of the most underestimated destinations in India, Orissa, is a surprise. The destination is wonderful, but unfortunately it’s just not sold very well yet. You can get a three night, four day Bhubaneswar and Puri package from Thomas Cook for Rs 12,950 onwards per couple, not including the airfare.

The trip includes visits to Khandagiri, Dhaulagiri and Udaygiri in Bhubaneswar as well as many temples, including the world-famous Lingaraj and the Mukteshwar temples. You would also be taken to Kalijai island, about three hours from Bhubaneswar, and then, on the way to Puri, you can check out the applique work at Pipli village.

Puri is famous for the Jagannath Puri temple, with its fabulous annual procession. Close to Puri is an interesting artisans’ village called Raghurajpur. The village is famous for Patta Chitra work (paintings on palm leaves). In Orissa you get an opportunity to view dolphins in the Chilka Lake. After you are through with the Sun Temple at Konark, don’t forget to pick a few Sambhalpuri sarees.

New York Times Travel Section of Sept 22, 1991 had a nice article titled “The great temples of Bhubaneswar.” Thanks to Deba Nayak for pointing it out.

Following is Dharitri’s report on this.

Following are excerpts from a Telegraph report on this.

The government will develop 100 heritage circuits for tourists by the end of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan. Of these, 25 are expected to be of international standard.

The government plans to build world-class infrastructure at Hampi, Agra, Konark, Khajuraho, Orccha and Datia along with the Buddhist and Jain circuit tourist centres. Moreover, 10 new heritage circuits are expected to be identified every year. To develop cultural tourism, the government has identified six museums — one each in Calcutta, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Cochin. These will be upgraded so that they can compete with global rivals.

Important religious pilgrimage sites will also be developed. The tourism ministry has identified 11 sites. These are the four dhams of Uttaranchal — Kedarnath, Badrinath, Yamunotri and Gangotri — Sabrimala in Kerala, Kamakhya temple in Guwahati, Dwarakadhish in Gujarat, Puri in Orissa, Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, Kanchi Kamkioti and Rameshwaram in Tamil Nadu. …

Rakesh Mathur, president of ITC Welcome Heritage, said, “Heritage sites in India need to be looked after well. A combination of dining, storytelling and live entertainment can do wonders and create a lot of interest in travellers.”

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