Greetings everyone, In this third blog from my Sabah trip, I am sharing a few details gleaned from walks in the forest - with a focus on the forest floor and shrub layers. The tropical rainforest has five layers - the emergent layer where trees can grow to heights of 50-60 metres, the main canopy [...]
Greetings everyone, Here are some of the animals and birds we encountered on our recent travels through four National Parks in Sabah. First up, a few birds for which I do not do justice, but managing to catch them at all I consider a bit of an achievement. A Blue-Eared Kingfisher on the Kinabatangan River [...]
Dear friends, ‘Sabah’ - the very name conjures up images of misty rainforest, winding rivers and wetlands, huge caves, tropical islands and coral reefs, orang-utans, monkeys, hornbills, kingfishers, and much much more. I have been lucky enough these past two weeks to visit four National Parks in Sabah: in Sepilok, the Orangutan and Sun Bear [...]
Greetings everyone. It is always a pleasure when visiting Tuscany, Italy to spend a day or two tasting some of the delicious wines grown and produced in the region. This year is was a real treat to spend half a day at the Antinori Winery, just north of Florence, that not only produces fabulous wines [...]
Greetings everyone The journey through Portugal continued from Porto and the Douro Valley in the north, to the central region, beginning in the capital, Lisbon. The city of Lisbon straddles the delta of the Tejo River which is continuously criss-crossed by boats of all sizes. From here you can get a sense that while Portugal [...]
Greetings Everyone, I want to share with you some of the photos from my recent travel in Portugal, my first visit to the country. Portugal’s second largest city sits on the banks of the Douro River and was crucial in the country’s maritime expeditions of the 15th Century. Later, it became famous as the gateway [...]
The shrine at the corner, where the cover photo was taken A trip down memory lane Saw Maha Lane to be exact, the small street on which I lived for my four years in Yangon from 2002-06. The cover photo of my book ‘Two Eggs and a Lemon’, about my time [...]