Category: Asia

March 8, 2019

Kyoto 2018: Short and sweet sayonara

March 3, 2019

Kyoto 2018: Love and modern art in the geisha district

February 26, 2019

Kyoto 2018: When a typhoon isn’t on the itinerary

I have plans, big plans today. I mean to visit Ryoan-ji, the Zen temple with its famous rock garden, and possibly attain enlightenment while I meditate over its enigmatic boulders.

February 25, 2019

Kyoto 2018: A day for the ‘gram

February 24, 2019

Osaka 2018

In the morning I got lost again, distracted by the teeming storefronts till I found the Glico Man and reoriented myself. Now it was time to locate Uncle Rikuro.

January 24, 2019

Mongolia 2018: Under the eternal blue sky

It wasn't a very long drive out of the city, through sternly majestic landscapes under the eye-watering, bright cornflower-blue infinite vastness of the heavens. A wild eagle would occasionally flap overhead, and you could glimpse herds of galloping horses and placidly grazing yaks.

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