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).
7 Sep
Shibam, Yemen: the ancient, towering mud houses known as the “Manhattan of the Desert”.
28 Aug
From the land of the Queen of Sheba comes the latest trend in surfing – barefoot, down ancient irrigation channels, Jibla, 2005.
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27 Aug
I was filming the looming rain clouds over the city of Ta’izz, when this musician offers to play some tunes in the street, 2005.
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11 Aug
In the truest of all Arabian Nights visions is the beautiful, historical, magical city of old Sanaá in Yemen.
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 …
