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Exploring a volcanic island by motorbike

INDONESIA | Saturday, 1 Aug 2009 | Views [214] | Comments [1] | Video

In our younger days one of the great joys of travel was to just wander, to have no real plan except to get lost and see what eventuated. Sometimes it really didn't work and we'd end up in some tricky situations, more often than not it was a pleasing ... Read more >

Tags: bali, volcano, island, beauty

Life & death in Chichicastenango

GUATEMALA | Thursday, 26 Nov 1998 | Views [1009]

The peaks of the volcanos, cloaked in cloud and on fire from the dawn sun, glide past the windows of our plane. In my imaginations I had painted a land of jungle not volcanos large enough to greet you as you arrive by plane. Being thrown back into ... Read more >

Tags: philosophy of travel, volcano, clouds, culture, death, mortality, children

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