In the Southern part of the Namid Desert lies Sossusvlei, a dry salt lake surrounded by high sand dunes. The landscape is strikingly reddish-orange, due to high concentrations of iron and consequent oxidation processes. Fauna ranges from beetles, rodents and springboks to ostriches and even desert elephants. The most noticeable flora include Acacia trees and
Beachside town Huanchaco approved as a World Surfing Reserve in 2012 Lake Titicaca, located in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia 15th-century Inca site is located 2,430 meters above sea level Stairs leading to the Temples in the upper town of Machu Picchu Images by Jimmy van der Kloet
*Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt flat in the world, near the crest of the andes at a 3,656 meter altitude *Isla del Pescado is an outcrop of land in the middle of Salar de Uyuni covered in cacti. *A 7.5-hour train ride from Oruro to Uyuni through desert landscapes *7am, hot springs close to
Seventy percent of Vietnamese live in rural areas, spending their days tending rice fields, visiting temples and preparing for early morning market. The Mist portrays Vietnamese farming life through contemporary dance (select performance dates in 2015). We asked some of the dancers to take their moves from the Saigon Opera House stage to the countryside,
Viewed from above, Halong bay resembles a geographic work of art. From the air, you can see parts of the bay not visible from the cruise boats – sculpted valleys, hidden lakes and deep craters, all carpeted in an iridescent green which looks beautiful in the late afternoon sun. The forms of the islands change
*Humpback Whale bones, Pleuneau Island *Whaling Ship Wreck in Bismarck Strait *Antarctic Sea Lion in Wilhelmina bay Images by Jimmy Van Der Kloet
The morning dawned sunny and hot for what had been billed as a mysterious journey to a “secret island” somewhere off Phu Quoc, to plumb the depths of the famed pearl farming industry. As I waited to be collected for the journey I didn’t quite know what to expect when a mini bus pulled up
Sapa and Ha Giang was amazingly beautiful and endlessly fascinating because of the children I met while traveling there. No matter how rugged and remote, there were always one or two children around either playing or going about their everyday activities without a care in the world.
Vietnamese tea farmers pick leaves in a verdant field in central Vietnam’s mountainous highland region. A little background on the journey of your tea leaf – from plant to pot – might just make the significance of your next cup of tea a little more remarkable. Images by Ngoc Tran
If you’ve been to any of the country’s wet markets you would have seen (and smelled) them – dried and flattened whole fish that could pass for cardboard cutouts, slabs of salted fish fillets so hard and stiff they could be used as a weapon. This month we traveled to the seaside town of Vung
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