Travel & Humanitarian Photos
Just about to set off for the return trip to Bangkok after a busy but really enjoyable two weeks back in the Old Country. It’s been great to catch up with friends and family and those familiar faces and places offer a sense of stability and security in my changeable world. I seem to be [...]
–UPDATE– When I said that the Bangkok Photo Walk would be one of the quickest to fill up, I didn’t realise just how popular it would be. I posted the link before I went to bed last night, work up this morning and all fifty places have been taken. Sorry if you didn’t get a [...]
I’m currently in the UK, my first opportunity to catch up with family and friends for almost a year. It’s great to see familiar faces and I’m enjoying the opportunity to reflect on my first year living as an expat in Bangkok. It’s been a productive year, a largely successful year and with many more [...]
Many visitors to Nepal take the opportunity to see Pashupatinath. A stone’s throw from Kathmandu, Pashupatinath is home of one of the country’s most important Shiva temples. More often known in Nepal as Bhairab, Shiva is the destroyer and also the creator. The temple stands on the banks of the holy Bagmati river, a place [...]
Bonhnath, or Boudha, is the site of one of the world’s largest Buddhist stupas. The local Tibetan community refer to it as Boudha, Tibet, such are the numbers of Tibetan exiles living in the area, yet it is only a few miles from central Kathmandu. Adherents circumamulate the stupa from before dawn to beyond dusk, [...]
So, I’m walking along the road, minding my own business – which makes a change – and my foot kicks something lying on the pavement. I catch sight of a metal object skittering along the ground in front of me. Brass perhaps. Dented and scuffed, it comes to rest in the gutter. A lantern. A [...]