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Thailand
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
After two weeks in southern Thailand visiting all the snorkel, beachy tourist places with my wife, I took a 24-hour bus to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand to start my 6-week trekking, camping, horseback riding and rafting adventure among the Hill ...
Post-Naadam Festival
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
Finished with 8 days of horseback riding across the Mongolian Steppe for hours at a time. Quite an experience! Had a strong horse that always wanted to be out front and had to beat everybody at galloping and running!!! Very exhilarating to be flyi...
Naadam Festival
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
Riding for the next three days on Mongolian horses in preparation for going to the week-long national festival of Mongolia celebrating the three manly sports: horseback riding, archery and wrestling.
Off to the Gobi, the Steppe and the Tundra
posted over 3 years ago, updated 18 days later | 0 comments
After four days in Ulaan Baatar I'm ready to depart with the group of eight plus three drivers, a Group Leader and a Trainee Leader in three Russian built 4-wheel drive vans. We will be setting out for the Gobi across wide open stretches of desert...
Leave China - Arrive Mongolia
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
Climbed the Great Wall, had Mao glare down at me from the Forbidden City Walls at Tianemen Square and roamed the Forbidden City feeling the ghosts of eunuchs and concubines. Finished up with a burger at Hard Rock Cafe after a night of Peking Duck ...
From Xi'an, China
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
After the area around Guilin we traveled to the Three Rivers Gorges Dam for a couple of uneventful days on the river. Got sort of diverted as the Chinese Gov't was very security-conscious as the Olympic Torch passed near the famous dam and they we...
Second Week in China
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
Met up with the group and have traveled to Yangshou to see the karst mountains shrouded in mist and to go on a 4-hour bike ride out into the country to visit a small village on wet, pock-marked dirt roads. Quite an adventure in the light rain.
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First week in China
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
Arrived in Hong Kong on Friday and have been visiting the local markets for all their bustling activity, went to a nearby island that had a village of houses on stilts, and have taken in the Art Museum and the nightly Laser Show projected from and...
Ancient Athens
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
Spent several hours this morning and afternoon at the world famous Acropolis. Aptly named when you come upon it as it juts out of the landscape as a huge outcrop of solid rock.
Sadly, the best place to see the remains of the Pantheon is in the Br...
Sadly, the best place to see the remains of the Pantheon is in the Br...
End of Middle East Trip
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
Finished up the Middle East Sojourn in Dahab, Egypt with a couple of days of horseback riding and snorkeling at the famous Blue Hole coral reef. Very laid back place on the Sea of Aqaba, which is an extension of the Red Sea. Passed by Mt. Sinai an...
