The original world nomad "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." - Confucius.

About simon_monk

Where I've been

Australia   Bhutan   Bolivia   Cambodia   China   Ecuador   Egypt   France   Germany   Greece   Guatemala   Honduras   Hong Kong   India   Indonesia   Italy   Japan   Laos   Mexico   Myanmar   New Zealand   Norway   Oman   Peru   South Korea   Thailand   Timor-Leste   United Kingdom   USA   Vietnam   Worldwide  

Favourites

• Favourite Photos [94]
• Favourite Stories [104]
• Favourite Nomads [88]
• Who's Favourited Me [23]

Photo Galleries

• WaterAid in Timor 2015 [10]
• Bookcovers [1]
• Oman - Travel Photography Scholarship [16]
• Bhutan - Rough Cut [567]
• Adventures in Ecuador
• Paris in Summer
• Down the Nile [52]
• Cairo & the Pyramids [43]
• Bali 2009 [50]
• Bali again
• Odd travel pictures [1]
• Goa [50]
• Kerala [66]
• Mumbai [12]
• Bali 2008 [293]
• Lombok 2008 [112]
• Java 2008 [263]
• Jade Emperor Pagoda, Saigon
• The island of Phu Quoc [82]
• Life on the streets of Cantho [181]
• Off the beaten track [208]
• Return to Saigon [182]
• Naxos & Paros [72]
• Santorini [84]
• Mykonos & Delos [18]
• Crete [10]
• Mediterranean 2007 [388]
• Garma Festival [200]
• Footprints in Oslo [55]
• Return to Shanghai [28]
• Early days [3]
• Island of the Gods [303]
• Flying visit to Berlin [5]
• Chiang Mai revisited [68]
• Flying visit to paris [46]
• Flying visit to London [40]
• Australian coast [8]
• A small footprint in Kam Ty [19]
• Vietnam & Laos 2006 [91]
• Unryu Japanese Spa [16]
• Our World Nomads [5]
• Children [9]
• Most dangerous road in the world [13]
• Vietnam 1991 [23]
• Our adventures [19]
• 1989 [4]

Highlights

• Return to Shanghai
• Once when I was a boy ...
• Outrageously scenic
• only the poms
• sore feet
• What better way to spend a wet day in Paris than with 1 million dead?
• Ah ... fresh air
• Macchu Picchu
• Freedom?
• Life & death in Chichicastenango

Near Misses

• Tiananmen: 20 years on
• From Mumbai with love
• You type "Bird Flu" and "Symptoms" into Google ...
• Ho Chi Mihn's revenge
• This HAS to be illegal ...
• How can a pot be so interesting?
• The philosphy of life ...
• A litany of small disasters ...
• The most dangerous road in the world
• Darkness in Antigua

My trip journals

• WaterAid in Timor (current)
• travel photography
• Travel Photography Scholarship - Oman
• Myanmar 2011
• Travel Photography Scholarship - Bhutan
• Was it really me?
• Egypt along the nile
• Bali (2009)
• South India 2008
• Java, Bali & Lombok (2008)
• Return to Saigon
• Musings from home
• While building World Nomads
• Mediterranean Autumn
• Travel planning
• the footprints network
• Island of the Gods
• Short trip to Chiang Mai
• Flying visits
• Vietnam with a Family
• Secrets of Sydney
• A Korean funeral (2000)
• Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam & Borneo (1991)
• India, Nepal & China (1989)
• Japan & UK family trip (2005)
• Central & South America (1998)

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