Category Archive for: ‘Asia’
Is the land of smiles beginning to sour – Bangkok, Thailand
As returned to Bangkok’s Khao San Road tourist district I asked myself: Was this a freak day or is the land of smiles turning sour?
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Horse trek to Ala-Kol Lake – Kyrgyzstan
I hired a local guide – Chinggis and his horses and set out into the nearby mountains to see peaks, glaciers and the hidden, high-attitude lake of Ala-Kol.
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Ural Sea disaster – Moynaq, Uzbekistan
When it comes to man-made disasters it’s still hard to top the Aral Sea disaster (for now); created by the Soviets in their attempt to turn some of their annexed territories (the Stans of Central Asia) into productive cotton growing regions. It worked.
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Bartang Valley – Pamirs, Tajikistan
From Khorog, amid the Pamir mountain ranges, I decided to splash out for my 45th birthday and hired a jeep with driver to take me up the remote Bartang Valley, for a few days.
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Song Kul Lake – Kyrgyzstan
Travel Photography | Song Kul Lake sits @ 3025 meters in central Kyrgyzstan
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Flaming mountains – Xinjiang, China
Outside of Turpan in Xinjiang province are the Flaming Mountains, so-named as under the mid-day sun their rutted, ravine complexion resembles red-orange-multi-colored tongues of fire. Well, so local myths have it.
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Lingering vibes – sex in Saigon, Vietnam
At a cafe I met a woman selling postcards. She wanted to talk. I bought her a bowl of noodles and a Coke for lunch, and during our conversation – in broken English – came her offer of sex …
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Tibetan monasteries in Qinghai, China
Rongwo Gonchen Gompa Tibetan monastery of Tongren ( Repkong – in Qinghai Province ) and the neighboring valley monasteries of Wutun Si & Gomar Gompa.
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