Sri Lanka: Paradise Discovered
The wide sandy beach fringed with coconut palms at Tangalle on the southern coast of Sri Lanka. I stayed at the Amanwella which is on the beach.
Sri Lanka: …
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Dateline Dubai, What’s New
The world’s largest choreographed fountain dances, and weaves to music below the 2,716.5 ft Burj Khalifa
Dateline Dubai, What’s New
Burj Kalifa, …
Endangered and Elusive: Yunnan Snub-nosed Monkeys
Like Pandas, the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey is critically endangered. Less than 2,000 live in the remote high mountain forests of northwestern Yunnan Province. …
Shangri-La Discovered – A 2015 Highlight
Mt. Kawagebo at dawn. Sacred to Tibetans, each year thousands of pilgrims circle the 22,000 ft massif by foot on a two-week pilgrimage, or Kora, for …
Searching for Shangri-La
Room with a view. Early morning from my room at Tacheng Lodge. Terraces of ripening wheat and beyond, ribbons of smoke from cooking fires
The northwest corner …
Endangered Orangutans Up Close and Personal
This orangutan was hanging out by the landing stage at Camp Leakey greeting visitors
A year ago I was on the Orion, a boat bound for Borneo and the tiny port of …