12 Oct
MRP age 23 - Nemrut Dagi, Turkey
It’s dark, 10pm and the hotelier panics at my arrival … so there I am: in a shabby police station to register my presence in Idgir, eastern Turkey near the Iranian border, these two brutish cops – grim like snagged fish – staring at me, as one of them looks over my passport.
Hi ... Am presently in Panama ... soon, a visit to family in New Zealand ... and then a return to Asia ???
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 …
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
A cold beer never felt so freeing; only two hours ago I was busted for grass and sweating it in a Colombian police station …
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.
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 … ?”
Photo portrait collection from across West Africa: faces of Togo, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mali, Ghana …
Once a fabled city of great gold wealth and Islamic scholarship, today Timbuktu is a quiet, dusty outpost …
Angkor, Cambodia, mid-1994: It was a crazy and dangerous time with the Khmer Rouge guerrillas still active …
Beautiful, traditional, throat-singing Mongolian music – live in a traditional tent in central Mongolia.
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 …
Surreal mud mosque of ancient Djenne and its Monday market ..
In the truest of all Arabian Nights visions is the beautiful, historical, magical city of old Sanaá …
Massive penguin colony at Brown Bluff on the Antarctic Peninsula
Images from the driest desert in the world …
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”.
Traveling across rural southern Laos, we stop to upload a pig into the bus. Watch the video …
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
Leaving Freetown by bus, getting struck in morning traffic and the bustle of a busy market that flows across the streets. Watch the video …
Crossing Borders and traveling in Guinea, I encounter difficult journeys, wrecked transport, drunk soldiers, appalling roads, and very friendly ladies …
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 …
