Tagged: pictures

Diving Dahab - looking up at the entrance to the Canyon.

Why Diving Dahab Rocks

Diving Dahab the visibility is always stellar, the colours crystal clear. Looking up through the Canyon, the sun beams a bright, bright blue – at...

Clouds reflected in Khovsgol Nuur, Mongolia.

12 Reasons I Love Mongolia

Isolation In the least densely populated country on earth, expect big, empty, silent landscapes, huge skies and a sense of incredible space. Off the beaten...

Pictures of Nepal: Prayer flags over the Boudhanath Stupa.

Pictures of Nepal

I may have spent the last few posts bitching and whining about Kathmandu, but… We did, honestly, love Nepal. So here’s my favourite pictures of...

First Impressions of Kathmandu

The term “sensory overload” could have been designed for Kathmandu, a medieval hill city, dirt poor, rich in ritual, dragging its ass into the twenty-first...

Mani Seascape designed as a postcard.

Postcards From… The Mani

We all need some light entertainment on a Monday. So every Monday I’m going to be sending some postcards from the edge. Or, in this...

Friday Photo Essay: Lebanon Flowers

In spring and summer Lebanon flowers. The countryside bursts into bloom. There are flowers in the ruins, flowers on the razorwire, flowers in the souks…...

The Pyramids 101

The Pyramids are on almost everyone’s travel bucket list, and, with tourist numbers low after the Revolution and Cairo still relatively safe, now is an...