Travel

January 7, 2009  Last updated: 10 minutes ago


Argentina in Pictures

Tierra del Fuego, Argentina


United States in Pictures

Hot Air Balloon Flight


Tibet in Pictures

Trip to Everest


United States in Pictures

Lovers Key and Key West, Florida


Tibet in Pictures

Samye Monastery, Tibet

Namtso Lake, Tibet


China in Pictures

Leshan Buddha, China


Dominican Republic in Pictures

Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic


Hawaii in Pictures

Maui, Hawaii, a Tropical Paradise


Israel in Pictures

Tel Aviv, Israel


Romania in Pictures

Lainici Monastery


Italy in Pictures

Hills of Rome


Greece in Pictures

Philippi, Greece


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Sun, Sand and Turquoise in Saint Martin


Saint Martin or Sint Maarten is a tiny island in the Caribbean Sea, the smallest island to be shared for the last 350 years by two states, France and Netherlands.


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Tanzania Travel Impressions: A Six Day Visit to the Zoo


The trip to Tanzania took only two days but I was pleasantly surprised when I got to Cairo on my ten-hour layover to discover that even though Egypt Air was going to give me no miles for this trip they were treating me to a hotel and meals during the layover.



Potala Palace in Lhasa
Tibet Travel Journal



On the two hour ride from the airport to Lhasa, I was expecting to encounter something like in "7 Years in Tibet," forgetting that there are probably very few places in the world where the passing of several decades brought by no change whatsoever.

Costa Rica, La Pura Vida


Grape size raindrops were smashing into the car windows so hard I was having second thoughts about deciding to come to Costa Rica in the rainy season. Maybe I had underestimated what "rainy" really means in a tropical country.

A Journey to the Brink of the World: Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, and Ushuaia


I always felt a kind of fascination with remote, untouched, pristine places like the Pacific Islands I saw in the videos my father would bring back from his business trips.

From East to West: Beijing to Chengdu and a few treats in between


I was headed for China and its Great Wall, for Tibet and its temples, for Vietnam and its UNESCO Heritage sites, for Singapore and its ban on gum, for Malaysia and its highest peak, for Thailand and its tsunami ridden beaches. I was headed for Asia and a lot of unknown.





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Greece Travel Journal


On a September Tuesday afternoon, ready to start the adventure, I was loading my baggage into a motor coach. The bus was going to take me to Greece, to a coastal area with sandy beaches.

Everest and Namtso Lake - a short journey through the holy sites of Tibet


It took three days to get to the Base camp and though the name of the road (Friendship Highway) implies that it is paved, it was quite a bumpy road.