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I was visiting Morocco and at the home of our "tour guide." It was the celebration dinner for our trek across both sides of the country. The animal that was prepared for the dinner was a lamb and nothing was wasted. I was weary and when asked by my wife for a piece of meat, I first passed her the testicle (ok, I was really weary!) Into the dinner the next part of focus was the brain. It was prepared traditionally; pealed of the outer membrain, cubed to hold it's exact shape, and at the temperature it was when harvested from the beast.I wouldn't exchange the experience for the world but it was the most gross thing I've ever eaten; cool, gelatinous, and strangely "gritty!"

NepalDepending Upon how you want to travel, you can reach Nepal in anything between INR 1500 (by Road) to INR 5000 (Flight). You can book nice hostels from Hostelworld.com or Hostelbookers they mostly start from INR 300 per day. If you choose to stay in a swanky hotel obviously the cost increases. The Best part is no Visa required. Great Place to Visit in Nepal is Pokhara and Kathmandu. I personally don’t like Kathmandu as it is more like any big city but doesn’t offer you a lot, rather I would recommend Pokhara which is basically adventure sports capital of Nepal. Plan well and in INR 10,000 you can complete a Trip of 4–5 days which can include Delta Wing Fligt (INR 6000, do bargain) or Paragliding (INR 3000) hiking for free and cycling on some beautiful routes (Cycles start at INR 300 for a day). For those seeking more they can do Annapurna trek and MT Everest base camp trek. Enjoy!BhutanThe Land of Thunder Dragon, A country I believe every Indian should Visit just to explore a culture very different from us, the discipline and some lessons on virtue of being satisfied. It is a very beautiful little country where people still value the old virtue of being satisfied. Getting to Bhutan is easy, cheapest way to reach Bhutan is to take Train upto Hasimara or New CoochBehar or Siliguri (I would recommend Hasimara) and then a bus to Phuntsholing. In Phuntsholing you need to make a travel document called Permit which gives you permission to travel to City of Paro and Thimpu. The permit issued is usually of seven days at a nominal charge of NU 100 (INR 1 = 1 NU). It can be further extended at Immigration office in Paro and Thimpu. To Visit other areas in Bhutan you will need to take other permits issued at Thimpu. You can also take your vehicle along by making vehicle permit which is again made at Phuntsholing. The Cheapest hotels in Bhutan start as low as INR 800 and expensive ones will cost you around INR 3000–4000 a day. I would recommend you take your vehicle along, as this gives you a freedom to explore the country which is full of picturesque site. Definite places to Visit is Tiger’s Nest, Dochula pass (Requires special permit issued at Thimpu), Chele LA Pass. If you are a real wanderer you might want to explore area around bhumthang (But be prepared for real tough journey and roads remain close in Winters and Monsoon) .Other than these there are many more countries you can travel to in less than 25k (Thailand, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Morocco, Turkey and Vietnam) if you choose to do a backpacking trip and stay in hostels rather than hotels. My experiences with these hostels especially those rated above 85 per cent has been rather good. These are great places to meet people and know more about the area from people who already have done what you might be planning and really goes a long way in enhancing your experience.Happy Travelling!

Well, that country would suddenly become the world’s new superpower, that’s what.Another thing: The whole world would sit up and take notice, trying to figure out exactly HOW this nation did it. Conspiracy theories would proliferate: aliens helped them would be the most popular. And it’s interesting to assume that is indeed what happened for a second, and try to reason THAT one out.So, let’s say that, oh, let’s say Panama, Morocco or some other place that’s presently considered Third World (and not much in the news here) suddenly develops 24th Century tech — like in Star Trek. It would be pretty obvious to the rest of the world that beings from another planet were the most likely source of this windfall, coming out of the blue as it did. In the short term, there would be lots of sudden interest in all things related to this country, and its people (and even more so its leaders) would be flattered by some of it, repulsed by the rest, saying in effect: “Why start liking us NOW?”For the next few decades, this country might well rule the world. But that’s not a guarantee because 1) the scientific community of this nation would need to be able to quickly and accurately get up to speed, and 2) so would the rest of society, which we already know is hard, given the rapid pace of change to which we are already accustomed.Another thing we have to worry about: what is the donor civilization like, and (even more so) how about the actual group which is the source of the new technology? What were the circumstances of this sudden transfer of technology? Did they give it up willingly, or did the military-industrial complex of the earthbound nation force it out of them? Or, were the aliens trying to observe the Prime Directive when a group of, let’s say Panamanians bright enough to figure it all out stumbled onto the alien ship? You may recall a couple episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation which had just this scenario. In each case, the Enterprise was studying a local population when they were outed as aliens. In both cases, leaders on the Enterprise and locally decided it was best to put a lid on knowledge of the fact that an alien race had paid a visit.For fun, I’m going to assume decent, peaceful aliens who, nevertheless, have their own version of the Prime Directive visit Panama. Some happenstance reveals their presence to the locals, and somehow at least one very accomplished scientist just happens to be among them (yeah, right). Assuming the ability to make people forget things is not among the advanced know-how brought by the alien ship, I predict its captain will consider permanently abducting all earthlings in the know. I just said they’re a decent people (the aliens), so let’s say this idea is promptly shot down, and it’s — very reluctantly — decided that the Panamanians must be “read in” or brought up to speed on everything from warp drive to whatever, then freely allowed to continue being a full part of their Central American society.If so, this is what will happen: The aliens will schedule official press conferences (first locally, then globally) to introduce themselves and explain their presence on our planet. (Perhaps they crashed here, a la “Alien Nation”.) The military-industrial complexes of the USA, Russia and China try to mount campaigns to appropriate even more extraterrestrial swag, and are easily defeated.Now is when it gets interesting, and when we truly learn the character of the people from off-Earth. Again, just for variety’s sake, let’s assume they are kind and understanding: they will STILL be pissed at being attacked! And again, I ask you: Why are they here: is their situation more like Alien Nation or Star Trek? Let’s imagine that they have some sort of Achilles Heel we can exploit to somewhat level the playing field (like they are much smaller and weaker than we are): in that case, much of what happens next will be a study in what happens when a mighty warrior with that one little chink in his armor gets mad. If, on the other hand, they are just way beyond us in every way, I’m afraid the Earth will become a colonial setting. That is, we can look to our own history on this planet to predict that enough of the aliens will show us no mercy that it will be several hundred years — if at all — before we humans regain the upper hand.I’ll close by saying I think I know why you might have asked this question, and I hope I’m right: You may well be thinking about writing a novel with this scenario at its heart. If so, I’d urge you to try to make a real STORY of it, rather than trying to concoct a hypothetical sociological study. The usual way I’ve seen a story like this go well is: it becomes a story about its central characters, how THEY, specifically experience the events as they unfold. Pick one narrator, and you’ll be stuck with his or her perspective and sensory limits; choose to have your readers in the Godlike position of being all-knowing, and you can perhaps reveal more of the action, but you risk drifting off into utopian (or dystopian) space opera, which has been done before, and is VERY hard to pull off. Fiction as social commentary is boring, whereas you CAN still make social statements through your work, provided you create genuinely likeable and relatable characters — especially the human ones.As an avid consumer of this type of thing, I’ll tell you I’d be turned off (and also would not believe it) if I couldn’t make myself like your human protagonists; yet I’d also snort in disgust if you made them into gods, or paragons of virtue. No, what I hope to find in outer space stories are “people” (both human and otherwise) in whom I can find at least some part of myself which, when I think about it, makes me feel good and valuable. And while I absolutely DESPISE stories which are uniformly grim, common sense and life experience both tell me that absolutely EVERYTHING cannot come out smelling like roses in the end, either.I don’t count ANY type of story as having been worth my time and heart unless its central characters actually LEARN something — and by “learn,” I really mean “grow” substantially — through the course of events so that they are not quite the same people on the tail end as they were when I first met them. They don’t have to be completely transformed, but if they come out untouched, my reaction is that you should have chosen to tell another one of their stories, one in which they WERE significantly impacted, no matter what that ends up looking like.This is as much advice as I’m willing to give you in this thread, for now you’ve made ME want to write such a piece, and then we’d be competing against each other! Assuming you ARE planning to write this book, find a good writing group to share your work with — a safe and welcoming, but very demanding one where no BS is tolerated, and where “phoning it in” (not trying very hard) is simply inconceivable. Study your market, and be prepared for LOTS of rejection. In fact, be willing to abandon and change any non-core aspect of your vision in response to good feedback, and be VERY sure anything you’re NOT willing to change really IS core.WHETHER YOUR GOAL IN POSTING WAS TO GET ADVICE OR SIMPLY TO SATISFY YOUR CURIOSITY, I HOPE SOMETHING IN THIS RESPONSE HAS TOUCHED YOU IN A GOOD WAY. GOOD LUCK TO YOU!!!