*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 … Read more
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 … Read more
*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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Vietnam is still a highly agrarian society with eighty percent of the population living in rural villages scattered throughout the lowlands of Chau Doc, the mountainous areas in Dalat and the coastal line running along Hoi An. The countryside is filled with bamboo-hedged villages, beautiful patchworks of green paddies, hard-working farmers in their conical hats, … Read more
Growing up, I was always curious about how photographers captured the images they did and how they brought the subjects to life. This curiosity turned into a passion for taking photos when I was in my 20s and then into a career. When I embarked on my first overseas holiday through Asia, the people and … Read more
Saigon’s soundtrack is unmistakable. Drills. Hammers. Machines at work. On every block, around every corner, the city is being razed and remodeled making way for renovation and growth. This onslaught of urbanization and globalization is leaving lasting impressions on Saigon’s future. But what will become of the precarious dance between old and new? Can there … Read more
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