Here's a brief photographic overview of our passage through Cambodia, the highlight naturally being the temples of Angkor !... read more

My last stop in China wasn't really in China... I thought that a few days in Hong Kong would make a good contrast with the few rural places I'd stopped in as I crossed China. I was lucky enough to enjoy a free yacht trip across the bay, and to meet some nice people to walk with along the Dragon's Back trail across the ridge of the island. The nighttime skyline is quite a sight, isn't it ?... read more

Though these pictures were taken about 3 weeks ago, I'm only just getting around to putting them up now... I suppose I could blame the Internet censorship in China, but that wouldn't be totally honest. I guess I've just been having too much fun to bother with computers and online updates... I spent about a week in Beijing, during which I took part in the following activities : hiking 10kms of the Great Wall, visiting Mao's mausoleum (my 2nd communist hero's dead body so far, Ho Chi Minh yet to come), the Temple of Heaven, the Forbidden City... and plenty of walking around the city's narrow streets (hutongs) discovering tourists markets and some unbelievable street food, all of this under the blistering heat and 80% humidity. I'm now in Hanoi and have successfuly met up with ... read more

So I've made it as far as Irkutsk, the lake Baikal... the far side of Russia. Last stop before Mongolia. The lake Baikal is quite a sight, cliffs on all sides, pine trees all the way down to the water. An old railway line winds along the coastline and a daily service for tourists crawls the tracks making many picturesque stops. Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and contains one third of the fresh water on the planet. It was a great pleasure to go diving in its clear (and somewhat cold) waters.... read more

I'm a little behind schedule with these photos I took about two weeks ago when I was in Lithuania. Some of Vilnius town itself, some of Trakai (a small town about an hour west of Vilnius with a castle surrounded by lakes), and also some taken during a short camping trip up on the Baltic coast, on the Coronian Spit (a peninsula shared by Lithuania and Russia).... read more