Today's travel photo is of a tree growing on top of an ancient stone gate at the jungle temple of Ta Som in Angkor, Cambodia. The roots of this tree have grown down the ruins to surround the doorway of this gate which gives access to the temple. Ta Som is a 12th century temple [...]
With May quickly approaching I am getting very excited about my upcoming trip to Europe. It will be a fairly quick trip and I will be visiting the UK before heading to Paris for a week. I was faced with the decision of how to get from London to Paris. Train or Plane? There wasn't [...]
Today's travel photo is of some gondolas tied up in San Marco with a view to the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy. It was a quiet day for the gondoliers of San Marco when we wandered past. Most of their gondolas were waiting, with their bright blue covers pulled across them. The [...]
Today's travel photo is of two Tasmanian Devils taking a nap at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary on the Gold Coast, Australia. Tasmanian Devils are generally nocturnal marsupials, but we were lucky to see some running around during the day. The two in this photo however did not want to join in and were having a good [...]
I rubbed the sleep from my tired eyes and stared out of the window of my safari vehicle. The sun was just rising above the horizon, slowly illuminating the land around us. We stopped at the rim of Ngorongoro Crater as the sun rose higher. Before me lay the huge 260 square kilometre caldera of [...]
Today's travel photo is a panorama of a freshly planted rice field in a small village outside of Vang Vieng, Laos. My last visit to Vang Vieng coincided with the rice planting season in Laos, and my bike ride through the spectacular countryside was made even more interesting as there were people out everywhere working [...]
Today's travel photo is of the historic City Hall building in George Town, Malaysia. This beautiful British Colonial building was built in 1903 and was the seat of the Council of George Town. It is still used as a municipal building today and houses the Municipal Council of Penang Island. There are many old colonial [...]
Today's travel photo is of the view from the top of Mount Panorama in Bathurst, Australia. Bathurst is home to Australia's premier car race track which winds its way up and over Mount Panorama. When it's not race time the track becomes a normal road. When we visited we drove our campervan along the race [...]
It's day three of our tour of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam and our group of more than fifty noisy tourists has been reduced down to just four fairly quiet ones. As we leave Can Tho our driver takes advantage of all of the extra room in his minivan by filling it up with local [...]
Today's travel photo is of a group of pigeons on the steps leading down to the Chao Phraya River at Wat Rakhang in Bangkok, Thailand. Wat Rakhang is on the Thonburi side of the river, located just downstream from Wang Lang Market. Catch the ferry to Wang Lang Pier and wander through the market and [...]
