Today's travel photo is of an old classic car at Bao Dai's Summer Palace in Dalat, Vietnam. Bao Dai was the last Emperor of Vietnam, and, like the French, he liked to come up to Dalat in the Central Highlands to escape the summer heat of the lowland plains. Today, his summer palace is a [...]
Today's travel photo is of a tinga tinga artist in the village of Mto wa Mbu in Northern Tanzania. Tinga Tinga is the traditional paintings in Tanzanian art. I took this photo at a work shop while wandering around the village and I was really taken away by the colours put into their paintings. These [...]
Today's travel photo is of our favourite fruit shake cart in Chiang Mai, Thailand. For the two months that we were in Chiang Mai, we got a fruit shake (smoothie) from here nearly every night. The street food carts and restaurants along Moon Muang near Sompet Market in the Old City serve up some great [...]
Today's travel photo is of the viharn at Wat Nong Sikhounmuang in Luang Prabang, Laos. I had never actually visited this temple when I first visited Luang Prabang, but came across it on my recent trip when I was just wandering around the streets of the Old Town - my favourite thing to do in [...]
Today's travel photo is of the rugged coastline at Point Labatt in South Australia. Located on the Eyre Peninsula, Point Labatt is home to a colony of sea lions who live below the cliffs to the left of this photo. It was a bumpy drive along a rough, corrugated dirt road to get here and [...]
Today's travel photo is of a busy street at Tsar Chaa (the central market) in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I absolutely love visiting local markets when I travel, particularly in Asia, so as soon as I got to Siem Reap, one of the first things I did was take a walk to it's central market - [...]
Today's travel photo is of some beautiful flower shaped lights on the river in Hoi An, Vietnam. I took this photo just after sunset on my first day in Hoi An while standing on the pedestrian foot bridge. The riverfront area is just beautiful at this time of the day, and having a meal at [...]
Today's travel photo is a view of a snow capped mountain from the Dudh Kosi River Valley in the Himalayas of Nepal. This is an old photo taken on the second day of my trek to Mount Everest Base Camp back in 2009. I can't believe that was four years ago! It reminds me that [...]
Today's travel photo is of some Buddhist offerings and candles at a shrine on Phou Si in Luang Prabang, Laos. Phou Si is a sacred hill situated in the centre of Luang Prabang, covered in forest and gardens with a small temple and chedi at the top. On the Nam Khan side of the hill [...]
Our second day of exploring the Temples of Angkor in Cambodia led us to the distant but popular temple of Banteay Srei. It is a small temple, its buildings looking miniature compared to the other grand structures in Angkor, but what makes it so popular is its intricate wall carvings. Banteay Srei is a 10th [...]
