100 Travel Stories
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Luang Prabang – The Pearl of the Orient
So peaceful and tranquil, being in Luang Prabang is like going back in time! With lantern-lit streets, Indochinese architecture, French villas and the Mekong River, Luang Prabang is a place where you wish you can stay forever.
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Flying Over Downtown Toronto
First flying lesson! Aerial views of Downtown Toronto.
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A Touch of the Past: Geylang Singapore
The red light district and shophouses of Geylang Singapore: gangsters, prostitutes, Viagra and jelly fish.
So peaceful and tranquil, being in Luang Prabang (Laos) is like going back in time! With lantern-lit streets, Indochinese architecture, French villas and the Mekong River – Luang Prabang is a place where you wish you can stay forever.
“Luang Prabang (ຫລວງພະບາງ) slows your pulse and awakens your imagination” – Lonely Planet
Found some old photos, taken more than 10 years ago that can make an interesting story. It is about an inventor, a peasant we call “Nea Ion” – who lived at that time alone, somehwere in Transylvania, “Plaiul Foii” area, next to Piatra Craiului National Park (Carpathian Mountains).
First Flying Lesson
Time to fly! It is that time in life when you want to do something exciting, such as celebrating a big round birthday.
“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
“A city in the desert. A culture of possibility. A network of dreamers and doers.”
Burning Man is an experiment in community, art, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance that takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, USA.
The Burning Man event is guided by ten principles: radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation and immediacy.
This year’s theme is “Waking Dreams”. The event starts on August 28, and culminates with the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy, which is set alight on Saturday night, September 5, 2022 in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
August 6, 1945
“When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.” – Wilfred Burchett
77 years ago, on this day, the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped by a US bomber over the city of Hiroshima.
8:15 AM
The time was 8:15 a.m., as recorded by this watch that remained still once the explosion reached the ground.
“A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?” – Ernst Haas
Phra Khanong is a Bangkok neighbourhood with quaint back alleys, small shops, restaurants and a busy market. A good area to find interesting photographic subjects.
The Phra Khanong photo walk was organized by the Bangkok Photographers Group (BPG). After each walk, BPG publishes a magazine featuring the best photos.