Siem Reap is a popular resort town in Cambodia and the best possible base for exploring the Angkor temples of Cambodia. Angkor Wat, the most important temple and symbol of the nation, is located only 6 Km from the centre of town. Europeans started visiting the town in the mid 19th Century and according to […]
Thousands of tourists enter the Angkor Wat Temple grounds every day from the Western Gate. So it is very difficult to get a photo of it from that side without a large crowd of people in the foreground. This gallery is of the Eastern Gate which is almost forgotten and gets a relatively small amount […]
Travel Photo Guide – Chiang Mai & Northern Thailand
The Touring Bike Project – Specialized Crosstrail Sports Disk Like most of us I started riding bicycles at about five or six years old. My first bicycle was a birthday present from my father, when we were still living in Oldenburg, Germany. I remember the bicycle being red, running into a stinging nettle bush when I […]
The Old Airport (Sanam Bin Kao) – Chiang Rai
Chiang Rai, the quieter neighbour of Chiang Mai, often goes unnoticed on the tourist trail but has plenty to offer in its night bazaars, unique temples and vibrant nightlife.
Whether Urban or Rural my landscape photography often includes people. It actually took some time for me to realise that even with the presence of people, an image can still be a landscape. In most cases I don’t feel the image is complete until the presence of human life enters it. Some of my images could of course […]
How do I get from Bangkok to Angkor Wat? That is the question most often asked in the Guest Houses of Kaosan Road and Travel Agencies throughout the city of Bangkok.
Like most of us I started bicycling at about age four or five, but once I got my driver’s license, the bicycle was pretty much forgotten and the automobile became the primary method to get from point A to point B. It took more than 30 years before I started using a bicycle again, with […]
Wat Umong Suan Puthatham is an over 700 year old temple in the Doi Suthep foothills, that dates it’s history back to 1297. It was founded by King Mangrai of the Northern Thai Kingdom of Lan Na (kingdom of a million rice fields). There are approximately 15 acres of grounds with ponds and various domesticated […]
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