Vast tracts of humid Amazon rainforest, snow capped volcanoes topping 20,000 feet, indigenous highland Andean villages, a tropical coast with banana plantations and the offshore evolutionary melting pot of the Galapagos Islands, are all part of the...
Definitely off the beaten tourist trails and one the more unlikely travel destinations that you can think of, Libya will be a travel destination to aim for once peace and order returns to the country. Home to perhaps some of the best preserved...
After the idependance of South Sudan, Algeria now is Africa'a largest country. From the relatively benign Mediterranean coast to the harsh rock and sand deserts of the Sahara, from the awe inspiring ruins of some of the best planned Roman cities to...
For close to twenty years, I have jorneyed across the Himalayas to lands that were once part of the greater Kingdom of Tibet ruled by the all powerful Dalai Lamas, both as political and temporal heads. Lamaist Buddhist traditions infulenced society...
In the shadow of the high Himalayas, lies Ladakh. Though politically, a part of India, it is culturally, ethnically and in its high altitude mountain plateau landscape, really an extension of Tibet. In fact Ladakh was part of the Tibetan kingdom in...
Antarctica- if you voyage in a large luxury cruise liner, then you are unlikely to experience the full fury of the tempestuous Drake Passage, that infamous body of water that lies between the southernmost tip of South America and the continent of...