The first of two interesting daytrips I made out of Kandy was to the Aluviharaya Cave Temple complex. While the road-level cave temples were a nice wander, the real attraction of the place was the Sitting Buddha on top of a hillside above the temple, overlooking the surrounding valleys. After […]
Tag: Nature
The Aral Sea Tragedy, in nine Acts.
Aral Sea The city of Aralsk was historically a major fishing port in the Soviet Union. This artwork, in the town’s train station, depicts the citizens of Aralsk shipping off fish to feed the rest of the USSR.
Aksai Gorge
Around Dunhuang
While Dunhuang is surrounded by beautiful natural and historical sights, many of them are quite far away from anything that I’d be comfortable calling a town or, at times, a road. So, I let myself be talked into taking a minivan tour to most of these sights on the second […]
Huangshan: Yellow Mountain
Huangshan: Yellow Mountain I highly recommend visiting Huangshan if you’re on a trip in China, both because the mountains themselves are beautiful but also because it can be a great place to interact with Chinese on an equal tourist footing. There are plenty of ancient villages in the area nearby […]
Huashan
Just east of Xi’An is China’s “Magnificant Mountain.” Though not spoken of with the same level of excitement and beauty of Huangshan (in Anhui Province), Huashan mountain is quite pretty. Greg and I took the cable car up early in the day, spent all day hiking between the 5 major […]
Hey there! I'm Stephen, this is my travel blog, and that's me in the poofy hat.
I'm a photographer / writer traveling since 2008, and I've been doing my best to visit amazing places.
My current focus is Central Asia, because for a hiking and camping enthusiast it's as good as it gets.