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FAVORITE OFF-THE-BEATEN-PATH PLACES & FACES

Laos - the unique and stunning beauty of the limestone karst mountains is characteristic of the central and northern part of the country.

Lake Ohrid, Macedonia  - straddling the mountainous border between southeastern Macedonia and Albania is Lake Ohrid. This is one of the oldest and deepest lakes in Europe. It possesses a special magical feeling.

Salar de Uyuni - Bolivia The world's largest salt flat, 4,100 square miles and elevated at nearly 12,000 feet in Bolivia's south-west corner. This is an awe-inspiring surreal landscape a place not to be missed. The sunset so vivid, and the se

Haridwar, India- is one of the seven most holy cities to those of Hindu religion.  The name Hardiwar means "Gateway of the Gods." Every evening, the Ganges (the holiest of all India's rivers) comes alive with the "aarti" (the worship of f

Manager of a cafe at a bus staion in northen Montenegro.

Iceland - Dyholaey, the most southern point of country.

7) Badi, China - very remote hamlet in Sichuan Province. I fell in love with this place, I did not want to leave. No hotels, so knocked on doors till someone took me in, I in turn helped with their harvesting.

Gjirokaster, Albania - an ancient UNESCO Heritage Site town in southern Albania. Very steep narrow streets made of black granite.

A warm welcome near Tibet boarder in China

Dhankar Monastery, Spiti Valley Himachal Pradesh, India -  Spiti Valley remote jaw-dropping landscape with mountain clinging places of worship . The culture in this area is heavily Tibetan Buddhism.

Perast, Montenegro - on the beautiful Bay of Kotor, the second largest fjord in Europe.

Upper Svaneti region of Georgia (hiking towards Mount Shkhara highest mountain in Georgia at 17,100 ft)

Bolivian woman at market

Train arriving small village in Bolivia close to border of Chile

Crossing over the famous Bealach Ba Pass to Applecross in the Scottish Highlands

Adams Peak in Sri Lanka - a religious pilgrimage site containing Buddha's footprint, also the country's highest mountain

Somewhere in rural southwest China

Tasiilaq, on Greenland's east coast

A Hindu Holy man known as a "Sadu" in the religious pilgrimage town of Badrinath

Pacentro, a medieval village in Abruzzo region of Italy

Batad, Philippines - famed for its rice terraces

Yerevan, Armenia - Hotel Doorman

Croatia Dalmatian Coast

Plovdiv, Bulgaria - Bulgaria's second largest city is a charmer. The Old Town elevated on hills with a maze of narrow cobblestone streets among colorful ornate preserved buildings/houses from the 19th Century Bulgarian Revival period.

25) Buddha looking out across Spiti Valley (hamlet of Lasa) - Himachal Pradesh, India

An indigenous Akha hill-tribe woman in village of Lunag Namtha in northwest Laos

El Nido at he northern tip of the island Palawan in the Philippines

Hiking on the Pennie Way in Cumbria in the North of England. It was the end of November, the landscape was stark and weather ominous. I saw no one. It was bliss.

Badi, China - I spent a good hour just sitting quietly with these women. They live in the very difficult  to reach, but breathtakingly scenic hamlet of Badi (about eight hours from Tagong in Sichuan province) practice "Anamism" - the worshiping

Harbor side in Cassis - a lovely low-key village on the French Riviera (very close to Marseille)

Road-side refreshment stand in south-central Cambodia

Gandria, Switzeralnd, just a couple miles north of Lugano

Market Day in the southern Sichuan village of Lugu (China)

Young Indian pen-seller at bus stop on long ride to Badrinath

Ushguli located in Svaneti region of Georgia, close to Russian border. Spectacular mountainous setting among 9th Century watchtowers

36) Geirangerfjord, Norway. This is one of the smaller fjords but certainly one of the most spectacular

"Chief" of this Kalinga tribe - "head-hunting" has been part of history between neighboring tribes. Nearest village to start exploring (and make sure you get a guide) is the village of Tinglayan in Northern Luzon in the Philippines

Two young Georgian girls after worship in Svetiskhoveli Cathedral in town of Mtskheta. This is considered the most venerated place of worship for Georgian Orthodox religion in the country

The Chilean Patagonia windswept,with emerald lakes and dramatic peaks. At time hiking here you get a sense you are at "the end of the world"

Lviv, Ukraine. This is the seventh largest city in the country, but it is at the very top in its cultural significance and involvement in the arts. It's historic city center with cobblestone streets and well-preserved pastel painted houses is

Leshan Giant Buddha, at 237 feet it is far and away the Buddha statue in the world. It is so large that I could sit on its small toenail. Built during the Tang Dynasty (started 711 and finished 803.) It is carved out of a cliff face at the jun

The Basque region of Spain one of my favorite areas in the world for eating . . . No not this is not tapa but a "pintox" (smaller than a tapa) indigenous to Basque cuisine. Often referred to as a "picho" meaning (spike) as it served with a too

Majestic icebergs easily ten stories high, I witnessed close-up as hitched a ride from a fisherman and he drove me three hours off Kulusuk Island off East Coast of Greenland.

44) Restaurant waiter in Bulgaria.

Kapla,India - a staggeringly beautiful setting where the Kinnauri people share the beliefs of both Hindu and Buddhism. The village is surrounded by towering mountains including Mount Kinnaur Kaliash a sacred mountain worshiped by both religion

Woman from Kapla,India. The pill-box hat is worn by women and men.

This is Pedro, he is seven and at first did not want to share his soccer ball with me. The setting is Taquile Island, Peru - located via a four hour small-motor boat ride from Puno on Lake Titicaca. This is a magical place that has that rare a

A Hmong hill-tribe classroom in northwestern Laos close to the village of Muang Sing.

Georgian cab driver.

Angkor Thom (part of Angkor Wat) in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Young kids hanging out in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland on the west coast.

Tibetan man in Yunnan Province, China.

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