The picture below is of the beautiful seaside resort of El Nido in Palawan, Philippines. It is about 420 kilometers southwest of Manila, and about 238 kilometers northeast of Puerto Princesa, Palawan’s capital city.  It has stunning geological...

It’s been a few years since I was last in New Zealand and while I don’t even remember taking a picture of this cow, it struck me anyway, just as it did the first time (although not a lasting impression since I totally forgot about it). Related...

Once upon a time it was a dream … a grand dream that was actually slowly shaping into the most colossal of all engineering undertakings. It was so fantastical that a lot of people thought the pictures of Dubai’s islands that looked like a map of the...

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (US essayist & poet, 1803 – 1882) Nature is amazing. Wonderful. Awesome. Awe-inspiring. People who live in the cities, myself included,...

“Punjab” means “land of five rivers” and derives from the Persian words ‘panj,’ meaning five, and ‘aab,’ meaning water. The rivers, tributaries of the Indus River, are the Beas, Chenab, Jhelum, Ravi, and Sutlej. Before the British left India, they...