Sur – Oman
18 Sep
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Travels in Yemen #1
10 Sep
Here I am in Yemen awaiting the verdict by trial under strict Islamic Shira Law. Am facing serious charges of fornication, sodomy and using banned substances. The outcome will be either: 1) Deportation 2) Flogged a dozen times 3) Stoned to death ??? (So pick the right answer and I’ll post you an Arabic-language Koran, FREE; cos I’ve bought a stack in my rush to repent).
Shibam – Yemen
7 Sep
Shibam, Yemen: the ancient, towering mud houses known as the “Manhattan of the Desert”.
Latest News – 2010
Hi ... Am presently in Panama ... soon, a visit to family in New Zealand ... and then a return to Asia ???
crazy travels
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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 … ?”
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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 …
