OK, this is a highly personal post and an exception from my rule of not posting family pictures... but at least it has something to do wit...

By the entrance to the Humble Administrator's Garden - it is 7:30 AM and the tour guides are already busy waving their flags and gath...

Yi Yuan, the Garden of Pleasance, opens up as an oasis in the middle of the bustling Suzhou city centre.   Today, I had a really a b...

From front to back: blue and orange sweet potatoes, pineapples and several types of bananas growing at the Bollywood Veggies organic farm...

View from the top of the Baphuon Temple in the temple city of Angkor Thom; this central axis and water ponds (actually moats - the Khmer ...

  The Bayon Temple behind its large moat in the ancient city of Angkor Thom. It was built in the late 12th century as the official state ...

  The Canglang Pavilion at the top of the man-made little mountain in the garden carrying its name. Couplets carved in the stone pillars...