Reflection: Indonesia

Labuanbajo Sunset

We used every day of our 30-day visa in Indonesia, and wish we’d had more. 17,000+ islands to explore, and we hit maybe seven!

Reflection: China II

Buddhist Monastery in the Grasslands, Tagong

Check out some of our favorite shots from the second half of our time in China, Shenzhen to Tagong, July-August 2011.

Reflection: China

Forbidden City, Beijing

Photo highlights from the first half of our time in China: Beijing to Shanghai!

Photo Friday!

Can you guess where these photos were taken?  We’ve had some time to review and have a little fun with some of the 11,000 + photos that we took on our latest journey.  BTW that’s a little over 35 photos a day average!  Enjoy.

Camel Safari

Bikaner Camel

Twenty miles or so out of Bikaner, in a small, dusty village on the edge of the Thar Desert, we met our two camels. A third was hitched up to a cart pulling some provisions for our journey. Each camel had his master/owner, who knows him best and responds to his commands (more or less).  […]

Don’t Skip: Bikaner, India

Karni Mata

Desert Outpost Bikaner Firmly planted in western Rajasthan Bikaner has a distinctly different feel from the other Rajasthani cities we’ve visited thus far. It’s a big city, but one that seems more like a desert outpost than a modern urban center. Camels are everywhere, used here mostly for pulling carts and work in agriculture. Hauling […]

Jodhpur Blues

Jodhpur has long been known as the “Blue City,” and the views from the top of its imposing fort prove this still to be true. Historically, it was only the high class, priestly Brahmins who painted their homes this color, and the old Brahmin neighborhoods are still the bluest, but as many other residents started to follow suit over […]