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| These pages are a collection of informal narratives about my personal travels around Asia. Most of them are arranged in a scrapbook-like fashion, with the main emphasis on the pictures. I am giving only a very concise narrative or description for each of the locations, so do not expect to find lengthy details on the site's history, how to get there and so on...I am afraid the narratives are still in quite a mess now, in the meantime i will try to reorganise them, hope you enjoy browsing through.. |
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| Glimpses of Himalayas - Naini Tal |
| Soul of Borneo in Danum |
| Christmas in the Mountains - Doi Inthanon |
| Heart of Java - Bogor N' Cibodas |
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| (Above)Wayang Kulit Puppet |
| (Above) Painted Storks nesting, Keoladeo Ghana Sanctuary, Bharatpur. |
| (Above) Malee's Nature Bungalows, foot of Doi Chiang Dao. |
| (Above) Pine Forests and villages, Nainital |
| (Above) Main gate to Emperor Akbar's capital Fatehpur Sikri |
| (Right) Sunday is also Market Day in Cibodas town, West Java. Thousands throng the streets to buy groceries of all sorts, or simply to join in the crowd. |
| (Below) Old stupas and the ruins of Ayutthya, capital of the old kingdom of Siam. |
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| To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries - Aldous Huxley, Writer |
| 'The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page' - Saint Augustine |
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| Taj Mahal, by the Yamuna River at Agra, scanned from a postcard...image a little gritty though |
| This unknown cathedral in Rockhampton, Queensland, caught my attention when I was on a one man half day photo expedition in town while the whole battalion was on RnR....doing the things Singaporeans do best....haha |
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| (Above) Beautiful Danum Valley at the heart of wildest Borneo as seen from the Segama river, Sabah, where the forest seem to stretch beyond the horizon . |
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| (Above) The colour changing hues of deciduous trees on the lower slopes (400 m)of Doi Inthanon, North Thailand splatters some warmth into an otherwise green scene, as seen during the boreal winter. And amidst apparent lushness is the real dryness of air and land that hangs low all over. |
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| (Above) A panoramic shot of the Western Himalayas taken amidst an evening fog on the long and winding road up to Pangot village from Nainital town.In the foreground are the undulating mountains of the Lower Himalayas which extends to the Shivalik Hills districts of Kumuon. Towards the west stretches the snow-capped peaks of Himachal Pradesh, while the east links up with the altitudes of Garhwal and West Nepal. The Highest peak wholly in India, 7800+ m Nanda Devi is towards the left of the picture, though its greater height is not particularly obvious here. |
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| (Above) Emerald green paddy fields dot the lovely canyon that is the Cianuk Canyon, as seen from the Hill town of Bukittinggi in West Sumatra. Partly obscured in the backdrop by the morning mist are the twin volcanoes of Gunung Singgalang and Gunung Merapi, both active... |