It includes conferences and discussions subjects with multimedia presentations at the various localities the tour visits. It runs all year around. Please, call for details. When one examines the traditional medicine in different primitive societies, from ancient times until today one will find a great similarity in their beliefs on the origins and causes of illness. A dominant universal feature is the pre-logical or magical thinking, especially concerning healing practices.
Magic belief is filled with all kinds of concepts about the development of diseases.
The positive and the negative alternate according to the orientation of the attitudes, thus it is often that one finds that a physical accident is interpreted as a sacred symbol. Inhabitants of the natural living world are activated by the influence of the social living world and all is governed by the influence of the supernatural world. To the Indian, illness is so mysterious, that being unable to explain it rationally, he interprets it as animism, as magic or as something else. This tour is dedicated to the observation of the largest concentration of birds in the whole world - 1700 species in a 15 or 22 day tour. It runs from April to November.