An unusual sight for visitors to Sri Lanka’s beautiful south coast is Taprobane Island. A small private island, to which you must wade through shallow surf to gain access, Taprobane sits about 200 yards off the shore of Weligama Bay.
World famous, Mandalay Marionettes Theatre is keeping this traditional performance art form alive for the Burmese people and for visitors to this northern Burma city. Originally a royal entertainment, it’s now available to all.
This gallery is just what it says, details, noticed as I went here and there during a sojourn in rural China.
Today’s highlighted photos are of Thailand’s Phi Phi islands – countless fortress-like small islands situated between Phuket and the mainland. These islands have been slowly and beautifully carved over many years and have a narrower base than top.
Glancing up from the courtyard towards one of the intricately carved plaster facades of a palace inside Mehrangarh Fort, I spot this palace guardian inspecting the throng of visitors below.
Tokyo is a wonderful city and doesn’t have to be expensive for travelers, especially since Japan has succeeded in their goal of weakening the Yen. As of this writing, it’s 98 Yen to the US Dollar. A few tips I like to point out as sort of…
On a quiet side street in the Silom district of this dynamic Southeast Asian capital is a peaceful oasis which, after a number of visits to the city, I only found by accident.
On the second day of a 2-day tour of Fujian tulou clusters, begun with a large Chinese group on a bus and finished the next day alone on foot, I walked along a road with my non-English speaking guide and came upon this beautiful house.
Very near where the Thu Bon River flows into the South China Sea, it passes through the delightful town of Hoi An, about halfway down the length of the country between Hanoi and Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City).
Welcome to my gallery of photographs from a day spent wandering among the stalls at the big Fuli market. The market isn’t for the tourists but is a farmer’s market for the people of the area, near Yangshuo.
An unusual sight for visitors to Sri Lanka’s beautiful south coast is Taprobane Island. A small private island, to which you must wade through shallow surf to gain access, Taprobane sits about 200 yards off the shore of Weligama Bay.
World famous, Mandalay Marionettes Theatre is keeping this traditional performance art form alive for the Burmese people and for visitors to this northern Burma city. Originally a royal entertainment, it’s now available to all.
This gallery is just what it says, details, noticed as I went here and there during a sojourn in rural China.
Today’s highlighted photos are of Thailand’s Phi Phi islands – countless fortress-like small islands situated between Phuket and the mainland. These islands have been slowly and beautifully carved over many years and have a narrower base than top.
Glancing up from the courtyard towards one of the intricately carved plaster facades of a palace inside Mehrangarh Fort, I spot this palace guardian inspecting the throng of visitors below.
Tokyo is a wonderful city and doesn’t have to be expensive for travelers, especially since Japan has succeeded in their goal of weakening the Yen. As of this writing, it’s 98 Yen to the US Dollar. A few tips I like to point out as sort of…
On a quiet side street in the Silom district of this dynamic Southeast Asian capital is a peaceful oasis which, after a number of visits to the city, I only found by accident.
On the second day of a 2-day tour of Fujian tulou clusters, begun with a large Chinese group on a bus and finished the next day alone on foot, I walked along a road with my non-English speaking guide and came upon this beautiful house.
Very near where the Thu Bon River flows into the South China Sea, it passes through the delightful town of Hoi An, about halfway down the length of the country between Hanoi and Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City).
Welcome to my gallery of photographs from a day spent wandering among the stalls at the big Fuli market. The market isn’t for the tourists but is a farmer’s market for the people of the area, near Yangshuo.
