From the monthly archives: November 2010

Featured Photo: Camel in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia

On November 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

Here’s another picture from a country I consider one of the most photogenic I’ve ever visited: Mongolia. This camel, on the other hand, may not be the most beautiful of creatures – it could use a good dentist, among other things! – but it made for an interesting subject for photography. I took this picture [...]

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Featured Photo: Village children in Sauraha, Nepal

On November 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

In 1995 I traveled to India to visit a friend who was studying in Varanasi (Benares). I decided to make a side trip to Nepal and took a bus north to the border, where I switched to another bus to the village of Sauraha, the gateway to Chitwan National Park. Sauraha and Chitwan are located [...]

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Featured Photo: Aerial view of British Columbia coast, Canada

On November 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

A few months ago I had the opportunity to visit the beautiful Sunshine Coast region of British Columbia. Stretching for 110 kilometers (roughly 68 miles) along the Strait of Georgia, from Howe Sound to Desolation Sound, the Sunshine Coast is just a short hop from Vancouver but feels far removed from the city. I spent [...]

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Featured Photo: Kinkaku-ji (the Golden Pavilion), Kyoto

On November 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

One of Kyoto’s most famous sights is Kinkaku-ji, more commonly known to foreigners as the Golden Pavilion. Originally built as a retirement villa for Yoshimitsu, the third Ashikaga shogun (1358-1408). After his death, the pavilion was converted into a Zen temple. In 1950 a young monk/university student set fire to the temple and burned it [...]

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Travel blogging with a purpose: Help build a village in India

On November 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In New & Noteworthy

If you’ve ever doubted that travelers have the power to change the world, take a look at Passports with Purpose, an annual program through which travel bloggers join forces to raise money for a good cause.

Passports with Purpose (PwP) was started in 2008 by four Seattle-based travel bloggers, Beth [...]

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Featured Photo: Moai at the quarry, Easter Island

On November 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

In October 2007, I was fortunate to be asked to escort a small group to Easter Island as an add-on to a Patagonia tour I was leading. Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places anywhere and offers a fascinating glimpse into a mysterious, vanished civilization. The famous giant statues, called moai, date [...]

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Featured Photo: Storm clearing over Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand

On November 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

Today’s photo comes from the South Island of New Zealand, along the road from Queenstown to Glenorchy. It’s a simple scenic shot, but what caught my eye was the interesting light and clouds as a passing storm cleared over Lake Wakatipu and the surrounding mountains.

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In search of the authentic ecolodge

On November 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Armchair Traveler, New & Noteworthy

With all the green buzzwords flying around these days, it can be hard for travelers to know what to trust. How do you know if a tourism business is truly sustainable? How can you be certain that an ecolodge is really “eco”? What kinds of criteria should you be looking at?

Enter Hitesh Mehta, a [...]

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Featured Photo: Prairie dog at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

On November 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

From 1998 to 2000 I lived in Tucson, Arizona, while completing a Master’s in Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona. One of my favorite places to take visitors was the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, just outside of the city. A combination zoo, botanical garden, and natural history museum, the [...]

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Featured Photo: Fast asleep at the market, Saquisili, Ecuador

On November 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

I love markets. I love roaming around and seeing the diversity of wares for sale and watching local people going about their daily lives. Markets are full of life, color, smells, and sounds. One of the largest and most interesting markets I’ve ever visited was the Thursday market in Saquisilí, Ecuador, a mostly indigenous community [...]

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