After Ethiopia, we shifted to diminutive Djibouti. After visiting the capital for a while (see post), our first trip within the country was Lac Abbe. At the Petites Cheminees, Lac Abbe We drove through a…
Ethiopia has many rock cut Coptic churches that have been serving its adherents for centuries. Here we tell about two of them we labored to reach. Abuna Yemata Of all these, for us, the 1500…
The fourth leg of our trip took us the snow-capped mountains and glaciers of Argentina before we returned to Chile for vast Torres del Paine. The overall journey through this gorgeous mountain landscape and desert…
Rounding Iceland at say 2 to 4 on its clock face, after enjoying so much along the way, we started to think, yeah, OK, I've seen all the the country has to offer. Not quite.…
Glacial flow, Rila Mts We drove a leisurely loop around much of Bulgaria, which is roughly 500 km by 350 km (320 by 220 mi), and found so much enjoyable both in town and countryside.…
For kilometer after kilometer, the landscape always seems the same. Pine trees and lakes. Lakes and pine trees. Driving the eastern side of the country - Lakeland in the south, Lapland above the Arctic Circle…
We've written before about the unrealistic expectations of visitors going on safari in Asia's national parks (click here to read the article). During our three day visit to Chitwan National Park in the south of…
Over 5000 of them, archaeologists believe, thrived in the high and low valleys between Flagstaff and Phoenix, places that people even today consider receptive to good, supernatural vibes. Then, for reasons still unknown after about…
Even in daylight, it looked like a Dantesque circle of the inferno. 200 to 300 meters below us, on the edge of a tranquil turquoise crater lake, steam spurted into the air drawing sulfurous vapor…
George, George, George of the Jungle Lives a life that's free. George, George, George of the Jungle, Watch out for that tree! Turns out that this silly lyric from a long ago animated TV show…