This is part 2 of my Mount Kilimanjaro climb. If you missed part 1, you can read it here. I awoke to the sound of footsteps outside my tent. The soft morning light filtered in through the half open zip on one of the windows and as the footsteps got closer, I remembered that I [...]
This week's travel photo is of the ruins of the ancient Roman Forum from Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy. In ancient Rome, Palatine Hill was where the rich and powerful lived. I can only imagine what this view must have been like 2000 years ago.
I returned to Bangkok, Thailand recently as a stop over on my way to Africa, and my wife joined me for the four days as we explored more of this city that we both love. Each day that we went out, we seemed to find ourselves on a ferry on the Chao Phraya River. The [...]
This is part 1 of my trek to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro Groves of banana trees flashed by as I watched out of the window of the bus. As we drove through a tiny village, some kids waved at me from the side of the road with big smiles on their faces. Slowly, the [...]
This week's travel photo is of a lady selling vegetables in a roadside stall in Chiang Rai, Thailand. I really enjoyed wandering around the different fresh food markets in Thailand, and I would often buy some delicious fresh fruit to snack on.
In Laos' sleepy little capital city, Vientiane, there is a large area of land along the Mekong River front that has been set aside as parkland. Every evening that I was in the city, I went down to the river front to sit and watch the beautiful sunset over the river. Locals and tourists a [...]
Picture yourself in a tiny sea side town built on the side of a spectacular, steep coastline. The smell of the sea invades your senses as you wander along narrow paved streets with colourful old buildings all around you. Small wooden fishing boats from the harbour line the side of the street and the salty [...]
This week's travel photo is of a group of giraffes in Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania. Lake Manyara was the first park that I visited on my recent trip to Tanzania, and it was a good introduction to the wildlife that I could expect to see in the country. I was so excited when I [...]
The blog has been a little quiet lately, but that's because I've been in Tanzania for the past couple of weeks. I'm happy to say that I made it all the way to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. It was the hardest trek I have ever attempted, based solely on the summit day itself. I [...]
This week's travel photo is of a street performer in Siena, Italy. We came across several of these performers all over Italy. They stay perfectly still for hours, only moving when someone puts a coin in their tin. It must take a lot of patience.
