All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘mountains’
Medieval towers of Svaneti – Mestia, Georgia
The defensive stone towers of Svaneti were built between the 9th – 13th centuries and today around 175 remain scattered across the valleys.
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Landscapes of the Pamir Highway & Wakan Valley – Tajikistan
Marco Polo was here … amid this high-altitude desert plain – known locally as Bam-i-Dunya; Roof of the World – a huge range known as the Pamirs, where isolated villages exist far from the modern world …
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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 …
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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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Kang village – Iran
The old stepped village of Kang is about 30 km from Mashhad, within and climbing above a scenic river valley.
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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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