Bhutan’s National Animal, The Takin During our adventure in Bhutan, we traveled to see the Takin, the National Animal of Bhutan. Known by locals as the “Dong Gyem Tsey”, it is without a doubt one of the strangest animals I have ever photographed....
It was late winter in the Himalayan Mountains when we visited Bhutan. Unlike Bali, high altitude and a cold winter necessitate letting the fields go fallow over the winter. Although quite brown in late February, the fields were alive with women singing as they planted...
We came upon this sunset scene on Ngapali beach on the west coast of Myanmar, on the Bay of Bengal. We were fresh off of a fifty-mile trekking adventure in the mountains of central Burma and were ready to retire to the beach for a few days. We had come to Ngapali for...
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To me, it seemed strange to find the Hindu god Vishnu inside the Buddhist temple of Angkor Wat. When construction of Angkor Wat was begun in the 12th Century it was designed to be the state temple of the Khmer kingdom whose citizens at the time were Hindu. When the...
Woman Distracted by Smartphone at Angkor Wat It seems that social media has taken over the world. Everywhere I go in all hemispheres, from mountaintops to seasides, people (including me) are using their smartphones and tablets to stay connected to their friends and...
Even though my diet usually consists of the local cuisine wherever I am living, or visiting, sometimes I just want a good cheeseburger. Since I am living here, and being the nice guy that I am, I went on a quest to find the best cheeseburger in Chiang Mai, Thailand....
One morning in Hanoi, Vietnam I couldn’t sleep so I decided to leave my hotel early and go on a mini-Adventure through Old Town. Even at 6 AM, the place was a hive of activity with shopkeepers sweeping up their storefronts, street food vendors preparing aromatic...
