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Fireworks, mountains and sleeping elephants. Wrapping up 2017, in pictures.
The last trip of the year has just ended; the rucksack’s been duly unpacked and its contents unceremoniously thrown into the washing-up pile, hoping for some merciful hands to put them into the washing machine without the whites turning pink … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Central Asia, China, Europe, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, London, Overlooked locations, Piemonte, Random memories, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, UK
Tagged 2017, 2017 Fireworks, 2017 in photos, 2017 London Fireworks Photos, Alps, Aqespe, Aral, Aral Sea, Aralsk, Asia, Asian elephant, Bactrian camels, Camel, Central Asia, Colombo Fort, Disappearance of Aral sea, Elephant, Fireworks Pictures, Italia, Italy, Jin Mao Tower, Jing Mao tower, Kyrgyzstan, Land Cruiser, London, London Mayor, Mountains, Murghab, National park, New Year's Eve Fireworks, North Aral Sea, NYE, NYE Fireworks, Pamir, Pamir Gap, Pamir Highway, Shanghai, Shanghai Tower, Shanghai World Financial Center, Sleeping elephant, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan railways, Tajikistan, Train, Train travel, Udawalawe
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A samosa wrapper.
There are street food sellers on Nuwara Eliya’s main street. If one is to walk outside the market, where the porticoed sidewalk shrinks to the width of a catflap, he’d see how a food cart has been parked in the … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Sri Lanka
Tagged Asia, Ceylon, Notebook, Nuwara Eliya, Pakora, Samosa, School, Sri Lanka, Street food, Wrapper
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Rummaging through Sir David’s bin: Outtakes from “Planet Earth II”.
In the year of our Lord 2016, BBC’s Natural History Unit decided to embark on a mammoth project, filming what would’ve become the four, splendid episodes of “Planet Earth II”. Under the watchful eye of Sir David Attenborough crews were dispatched to … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Sri Lanka
Tagged Asia, Asian elephant, Attenborough, BBC, Birds, Ceylon, Eagle, Forest, Kingfisher, National park, nature, Photography, Planet Earth, Safari, Serpent Eagle, Sri Lanka, Stork, Udawalawe
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After the daytrippers have gone.
It never ceases to amaze me how much a place can change depending on the weather. Take, for instance, Nuwara Eliya: I arrive under a glorious sunshine and an air so gleaming with light that you’d be excused for trying … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Sri Lanka
Tagged Asia, Britain, Buddhism, Ceylon, Colonialism, Glorious dead, Hill country, Horse, Nuwara Eliya, Poverty, Sri Lanka, Tea, Tea Plantation
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Going into the country.
One Greg Anderson, whose biographical info I could find identified him as being “American” and an “author”, apparently is the father of the quote, dear to all those who use and abuse of the word “wanderlust”, “Concentrate on the journey, not … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Overlooked locations, Sri Lanka
Tagged Ahangama, Ceylon, Country, Jungle, Overlooked locations, Sri Lanka, Tea, The Places In Between
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Where kites fly above the fort.
I often think that I’d have been a Portuguese explorer. This isn’t because of an unquenchable thirst for boot, a penchant for ending up chewed by unfriendly natives, or an interest in being consumed by hideous tropical diseases; rather, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Sri Lanka
Tagged Asia, Astronomy, Buddha, Buddhist, Cargo, Ceylon, Dutch, Dutch Hospital, Galle, Galle Fort, Galle Railway station, Holland, Indian Ocean, Islam, Kite, Lloyd's, Madrasah, Muslim, Netherlands, Rampart Street, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shipping, Sri Lanka, Sunset, Tropics, Twilight, Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC
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Sri Lankan trains.
To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers – In fact, to see life Agatha Christie There’s something special about the very act of boarding a train. For starters, it’s a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Sri Lanka
Tagged 2004 tsunami, Asia, Britain, Colombo, Colombo Fort, Ella, Galle, Galle Fort, Hill country, India, Nanu Oya, Rail, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan railways, Tea, Tea Plantation, Train, Train travel
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