Surfing yemeni-style – Yemen

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  Travels in Yemen #1

  But there are tribal rules – according to locals – no shooting women, children or old people; only in self defense if a weapon is raised against you or if there are two enemies present …

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  Drugged, abducted, robbed in Russia

  Everyone around the tables was friendly. I remember having 3 shots with them and that’s it … until I remember stumbling and falling from weakness on gravel somewhere in the countryside

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  A cold beer never felt so freeing – Colombia

  A cold beer never felt so freeing; only two hours ago I was busted for grass and sweating it in a Colombian police station …

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  Head off the edge – Buenos Aires #2, Argentina

  What jumping out of a plane didn’t achieve for me, jumping out of a moving car in Buenos Aires has … checked back into reality: maybe I’ll stay a while.

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  Insane first day – Saddam’s Iraq #1

  I forget about the million stares on me as he glares down and barks “You have no right to be here! No photos allowed! Why are you here … ?”

Featured

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  Faces of West Africa

  Photo portrait collection from across West Africa: faces of Togo, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mali, Ghana …

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  Timbuktu, Mali

  Once a fabled city of great gold wealth and Islamic scholarship, today Timbuktu is a quiet, dusty outpost …

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  Angkor ‘94 – lost temples of Cambodia : ART

  Angkor, Cambodia, mid-1994: It was a crazy and dangerous time with the Khmer Rouge guerrillas still active …

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  Beautiful mongolian music – Mongolia

  Beautiful, traditional, throat-singing Mongolian music – live in a traditional tent in central Mongolia.

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  Prison visit – La Paz, Bolivia

  My solitary Sunday was absorbed by a visit to La Paz’s San Pedro Prison. No, I wasn’t arrested for drugs or acts of public indecency, rather it was a straight forward tourist kinda thing …

Amazing Places

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  Djenne – Mali

  Surreal mud mosque of ancient Djenne and its Monday market ..

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  Sanaa – Yemen

  In the truest of all Arabian Nights visions is the beautiful, historical, magical city of old Sanaá …

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  Brown Bluff – Antarctica

  Massive penguin colony at Brown Bluff on the Antarctic Peninsula

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  Atacama Desert – Chile

  Images from the driest desert in the world …

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  Christmas in Lalibela, Ethiopia

  They remain one the least recognized man-made wonders of the world, yet once the Medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela were known as “The Jerusalem of Ethiopia”.

Global Journeys

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  Piggy goes to market – Laos

  Traveling across rural southern Laos, we stop to upload a pig into the bus. Watch the video …

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  Niger River – Mali

  3 days down the Niger River, thru the Sahara, from Mopti to Timbuktu, by pirogue. Camping on the desert shores, passing mud-sculptured villages and their elaborate mosques

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  Via the market – Freetown, Sierra Leone

  Leaving Freetown by bus, getting struck in morning traffic and the bustle of a busy market that flows across the streets. Watch the video …

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  On the rough road – Guinea

  Crossing Borders and traveling in Guinea, I encounter difficult journeys, wrecked transport, drunk soldiers, appalling roads, and very friendly ladies …

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  Trek to the last inca city – Vilcabamba, Peru

  I set out with a local guide and a laden mule and a mule-lad to trek to Vilcabamba, the last and lost Inca city, located in a distant, hidden valley, a full three days of walking remote trails …