Meghri-Kapan mountain road – Armenia
SNAPSHOTS FROM THE ROAD (all images as shot in-camera, complete with spotty, dirty windscreen): On an isolated road I attempted to hitch from Maghri to Kapan …
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.
Nong Kiaow to Maung Khua river trip – Laos
The Nong Kiaow to Maung Khua boat trip up the Nam Ou river, zipping between limestone mountains in northern Laos …
La Ruta Moskitia – Honduras to Nicaragua
A couple of weeks across Honduras to Nicaragua, via La Ruta Moskitia – the remote Mosquito Coast.
Sailing Caye Caulker to Placencia – Belize
3 blissful days sailing the Caribbean, from Caye Caulker to Placencia: sun, sea, swimming, snorkeling, smoking grass with Rastas, listening to Reggae, drinking rum, eating fresh fish & lobster, camping on tiny atolls …
Niger River – Mopti to Timbuktu – 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
On the rough road – Guinea Bissau to Guinea
Crossing Borders and traveling in Guinea, I encounter difficult journeys, wrecked transport, drunk soldiers, appalling roads, and very friendly ladies …
Bus – Santa Cruz to Cochabamba – Bolivia
It should have been a straight-forward overnight journey on a comfortable modern bus on a sealed asphalt highway but …
Ship – Sarong to Merauke – Papua, Indonesia
To Fakfak (pronounced fuck fuck!) – it was a 12 hour boat trip from Sorong, on our way south to here, Marauke, in southern Papua.
Hitch-hiking Baluchistan – Pakistan
He’d just locked the keys inside his truck. What a plonker! And what a hopeless position: parked as it was in front of the gate – which the guard had just unlocked and now the truck totally blocked the access point between Iran and Pakistan, cornered on Afghanistan …
