Took this back in March, while visiting our daughter, who is teaching English in Japan for this past year. We took the opportunity to take a couple of weeks to travel around Japan. She is in Hirado, south of Nagasaki. I didn’t want to haul my DSLR, so I made do with the phone camera.
cross-posted from: monero.town/post/640742...
This is in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan. Among many, many strange things, this one actually stands out a little bit. If you’re into architecture that involves a lot of gold and marble, you can’t find a better place to visit.
While the Silk Road has been replaced by shipping lanes and air-freight, you can still find the ancient bazaar atmosphere in pretty much any major city in Iran.
Went to swim there 3 days ago and it was amazing. The water is so unbelievably clear, you can swim in the pools while the waves outside are over a meter high and not notice anything of it. Also there's lots of fish for snorkeling
On the slopes between Käserstatt and Mägisalp in the Swiss alps. Hasliberg overlooks the Haslital and Lake Brienz with Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau (Top of Europe) on the other side....
Bird of Paradise, near Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City....
For texture, the creators of this temple punched thousands of holes on the stones about 5,000 years ago. The effect was really cool. Malta.
This is one of my favorite campsites ever. This is sunrise over Evolution Creek and McClure Meadow, in the high country of the Sierra Nevada mountains, in Kings Canyon National Park, in California. I’m fortunate enough to live relatively close, in Bishop, California. Still, there are no roads here - you must make your way on...
I took this photo after about an hour of hiking from the buildings in the center of this photo, up on Platåfjellet mountain right next to town.
SUP on Eibsee...
Not a big fan of the local government, but their airlines and hubs are often the only practical alternative to get to some unusual destinations.
This was just before the whole Rohingya thing got started. I wouldn’t go now. But seeing the sun rise above the many temples of Bagan veiled in the mist from thousands of wood stoves being fired up to cook breakfast is really something.
Iwakuni is where my parents met, in 1960. My little sister and I visited in March of this year, and were able to scatter my older sister’s ashes in the Nishiki river, and commit them to our ancestors. I haven’t visited the Kintai Bridge since I was a boy. It still looks the same. Fond memories…
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/139613...
The best time of the year for going on a self-drive safari is the next two-three months. It’s dry season, so not too much green for the animals to hide in. (Some animals still manage to hide just fine, though, as seen here.) And there’s no mosquitoes to worry about until the rains begin, so no malaria either....
