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The Great Theatre of Ephesus, Turkey. Ephesus is one of the best preserved classical cities the Mediterranean region. With the excavated streets connecting well preserved/restored Roman structures, such as the Great Theatre, you can get a feel for what a Roman city might have looked like.
I am spending a few months in Thailand on a basic tourist visa, which means that after one month I have to leave and reenter to start a new visa. The previous month I went to Myanmar for 3 weeks. This time around I had not planned for a new country visit, so a short [...] Read more »
The terraces of Pamukkale (“cotton castle” in Turkish) are formed by sedimentary rock (Travertine) deposited by water from hot springs which cascade down from a plateau. Read more »
Goreme (Göreme) in the Cappadocia region of Turkey. Cappadocia is famous for the rock formations known as “fairy chimneys“. Goreme is in a valley of fairy chimneys, and some of the houses are even built within the the rock formations. Read more »
Guard at Anıtkabir (memorial tomb) of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Ankara – Turkey. Atatürk was the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey. Read more »
After visiting the incredible Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon I was wondering if anything could top that in Myanmar? It didn’t take long to find out, with my next stop at Bagan. [Temples on the Bagan Plain] Ancient Bagan Bagan is the site of a ruined city in central Myanmar that was a powerful capital nearly [...] Read more »
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (better known as the Blue Mosque), Istanbul – Turkey. If you are wondering why it doesn’t look that blue, it is named for the blue tiles on the interior walls. Read more »
[Dracula souvenirs at Bran Castle, Bran - Romania] I was forewarned that Bran Castle is not the romantic gothic masterpiece that Bram Stoker’s Dracula would have you imagine. Even so it felt wrong to be in this part of Transylvania and not go. I have to see these things for myself. The castle is a [...] Read more »
[Shwedagon Pagoda (Paya), Yangon - Myanmar] Visitors to Europe would be familiar with the phenomenon of being cathedralled out. This is when you visit lots of cathedrals in a short space of time, to the point that you tire of even the grandest of cathedrals. The same happens with the temples of Asia. To be [...] Read more »
So I have a new toy, a Nikon D5100. Apart from learning the ways of a DSLR camera, I am also having fun playing around with the effects feature. One of the inbuilt settings in this camera is the miniature effect (also known as tilt-shift photography). This style of photography has become popular of late, [...] Read more »
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