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Photo of the Week: Giant’s Causeway

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Giant’s Causeway is a series of 40,000 interlocking hexagonal basalt columns thought to have been formed from rapidly cooling lava some 50-60 million years ago. In the morning, I left my hostel in Portrush on a rented bicycle and peddled the 10 miles through a strong headwind along the beautiful coast of County Antrim, Northern [...]

Arequipa and Colca Canyon Photo Essay

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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1) The Plaza de Armas in Arequipa. Arequipa is also known as “the white city” because many of its buildings are made from a white volcanic rock called sillar. The city rests in the Andes around 7,800 feet above sea level and is the second most populated city in the country (around 904,900 residents) 2) Our [...]

Photo of the Week: Great Wall of China

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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The Jinshaling section of the Great Wall of China is located in a mountainous area 125 km northeast of Beijing. We spent the afternoon hiking the 10.5 km along the wall to Simatai, passing 67 towers, five passes and two beacon towers, much of wall rubble beneath our feet. This section was built about 1570 [...]

Photo of the Week: Swiss Town

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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After changing trains in St. Moritz, I rode through the Bernina Pass and chugged slowly down into Italian-speaking Switzerland. I enjoyed an espresso and a short stroll through the town of Poschiavo and snapped this photo while hanging out of the train window as we returned up the steep grade to the alpine pass. Photo and text by [...]

Photo of the Week: Copenhagen Cafe

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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After a day of cycling and walking through a cold, rainy, gray December day in Copenhagen, a friend and I ducked into this cozy cafe for this artist creation of a sandwich. After an hour of trying to talk over rowdy, drunk English football fans in town for a match, we got back on our old [...]

Photo of the Week: Armenian Cowboy

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

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This photo of the Armenian Cowboy was taken in Nagorno-Karabakh. Earlier in the day we visited Gandzasar Monastery, a beautiful 13th century hilltop Armenian monastery. A few miles down the road from the monastery, at junction in the road, we tried to hitch a ride on a country road north to Dadivank Monastery complex. After [...]