Bagels and Coffee

After two months on the road and pretty much living off curry followed by Chinese food, with a couple of breaks for a Macca’s we arrived in Luang Prabang which had been touted as the Latte Capital of Laos. Now based off what we read and had seen so far we were not expecting much, but had been told by our new friends in Luang Namtha to visit a café called Arthouse Café.  It apparently did great western food and was managed by an American lady who had inspired them to set up their place in LN.
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The Picture I Never Took

I tend to beat myself up when I miss a great shot, be it I never had a camera or we are traveling and I cannot get the driver to stop or something similar, but this is not a story about a photograph I wanted to ever take, its about a scene that shocked, disgusted and saddened me all in the space of a brief 5 second glimpse.
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China Channel

In the land of Communism and with the supression of the freedom of speech and expression, here is a playlist and soundtrack that rocked our world as we travelled overland through the China. A epic soundtrack for a epic journey through a very diverse culture and landscape that was one of the toughest legs of our Journey to date.
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26 Hours on a Train

This is going to be a photography blog, during our mammoth 26 hour train journey I tried to take a photograph every hour, except obviously for when I was sleeping but I have posted 26 photographs from the journey, its an interesting experiment to see what is produced when you are confined in a 10ft by 10ft cabin with 3 other people for 26hours……

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My Outdoors Man Dream

What I now know about Abel Tasman is that it is a place of my dreams, it was a place I had seen in photographs that to me always seemed dream like and not of any specific location, and it was something I imagined I would find in the deepest woodlands and Lake land’s of Canadian or American national parks, I had not seen or thought I would find it in NZ but we did, It is a true Garden of Eden.
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JP Smith and the Comic Book Project

It has been 13 years since I left university and it had also been 13 years since my friend JP Smith had left university and emigrated to New Zealand with his family, leaving his record collection with a few of us as he set off for a new life. On his departure I was committed so someday traveling to visit him. Now as we all know this has taken a while, a few false starts on the way but finally I got to New Zealand and Wellington to catch up with him and a good time was had!
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Black Water Rafting

Now what is Black Water rafting? I hear you say, well it is a underground adventure that involves one going underground into an cave network that has underwater rivers and waterfalls and who knows what else and using a large inflatable tube to navigate through these waterways. Waitomo is famous for its cave network and this apparently world famous activity!!
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Scientific Philanthropy

Part of the cost of our trip was also a fundraising exercise as part of Abercrombie & Kent’s Philanthropic program which has been running for 26 years. The funds raised from the passengers on board as part of the A&K Fighting Climate Change in Antarctica program, was about $12k which was used to pay for scientific equipment for the US Scientific program in Antarctica and more specifically research work at the US base Palmer Station on Anvers Island.
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