The most beautiful street in Singapore is Koon Seng Road. Beauty is subjective of course. One person’s Mona Lisa is another person’s steaming pile of hot garbage. One person’s steaming pile of hot garbage is another person’s Mona Lisa. But let’s be real here. The Peranakan shophouse above is beautiful. It’s colourful, it’s ornate, it…
There is a city that crosses continents. You read that right. It’s a city so badass that it couldn’t be contained within one puny continent. It was ruled by Greeks as Byzantium and Ottomans as Constantinople. And now it’s ruled by Turks as Istanbul and it’s partly in Europe and partly in Asia. If Istanbul…
Below are some photos of the Taj Mahal in fog, for those with a fondness for visibility-reducing weather phenomena and Indo-Islamic architecture. When we first arrived before dawn, you couldn’t even see your hand in front of your face, and by the time we left it was also super heavy fog. Thankfully, in the few…
We spent almost three weeks in India, visiting my better half’s family, attending and almost eating ourselves to death at weddings, and finding some time to do some touristy stuff too. The highlight of the lot – sorry, Taj Mahal – was Amber Fort in Jaipur, which is absolutely stunning. Without further ado, here are…
Let me tell you about my time being Indiana Jones at Petra and why it’s one ANCIENT WONDER that’s not an underwhelming disappointment. It’s actually bloody spectacular and impressive and all manner of other words that middle-schoolers struggle to spell. Petra, if you didn’t know, is in Jordan, which borders Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and…
While staying in a hostel in Amman, Jordan, I ended up doing a day trip to the Dead Sea with the hostel owner and his family. I say day trip, but Khaled assured me it’d be best if we left about three in the afternoon. “Too hot, too hot,” he told me repeatedly. “During morning…
Let me help you decide. Iguazu Falls: Argentina or Brazil? Brazil or Argentina. It’s the age-old debate. When it comes to football, I’m not picking a horse, mainly because horses have nothing to do with football. But when deciding whether you should visit the Argentine or Brazilian side of Iguazu Falls, I won’t sit on…
Below are the best photos from Iguazu Falls I took when we visited in March 2019. We walked all the trails, took a boat into some of the waterfalls themselves, and took a ride in a helicopter to see the largest waterfall system in the world from the air. If you haven’t been, let these…
Below are the best photos from Vietnam I took when visiting back in September 2013. I make no apologies for the fact most of them are from Ha Long Bay! For some of my stories from Vietnam, click here.
Below are the best photos from Iceland I took when visiting in November 2018. People aren’t lying when they say the landscapes are stunning! (Click on one to enter a slideshow.) For more Iceland content from me, click here. For the most stunning photos from Iceland from the best photographers the internet can provide, see…