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It was a long five years since our last trip to West Africa. A combination of the global COVID pandemic and the rebuilding of the business made travel impossible. After pushing back the decision for half a year, we drilled down our long wish list, looking for a place...
Last May, I had the chance to visit Yerevan for business. Armenia is not a usual destination for business, but the invitation from Aram was tempting. Aram and I go back a long time, from our Austin years, in the early 90s.I was not sure what to expect out of Yerevan....
I recently re-worked on the pictures I shot in Myanmar during the 2015 trip, processing them in black and white and rediscovered some of the places I visited. Inle Lake was definitely on this list. The black and white imagery conveys better what I sensed during these...
Burma - officially known as Myanmar, nowadays - is a large country. Covering a strange shape of 676 thousand square kilometers, with a long strip protruding in the south, a diversified population of 52 million, very few English speakers, a large number of regions...
Burma, nowadays, officially known as Myanmar, is a large country. At 676 thousand strangely shaped square kilometers, with a long tongue protruding out in the south, a diversified population of 52 million, very few english speakers, a number of regions blocked by the...
The following morning we flew to Yangon, to complete our Myanmar trip. Our guide and driver waited for us in the airport. The usual stuff: polite but very limited knowledge of the English language. The city is pleasant, more westernized than one should expect and has...
We arrived in time in the airport to catch our flight to Ngapali that left before the scheduled time! The heat wave struck the second I went out of the airplane. After we cleared immigration (! weird, we were not coming from abroad) we headed to the Amata resort, a...
The second largest lake in Myanmar is only 116km² in size and a mere 2m deep on the average. Some seventy thousand people lead their lives on these waters. After lunch in one of the lake side restaurants, we got on the boat to our lodge. The afternoon light was great...
The six hour drive to Kalaw among the beautiful landscape was comfortable in the air conditioned car. Unfortunately, it involved a brief lunch stop that I later regretted. I made an afternoon walk at the very interesting local market. The faces here are rather...