Ollantaytambo

Panorama of Araqama Ayllu

The journey from Cuzco is relatively event free. The well kept road takes you through terraced fields that cut into the Andean landscape. Filled with potatoes and quinoa, they feed the Incan descendants who live in the valleys that were once ruled by their ancestors’ glorious empire. The road takes you into a sleepy little […]

Shwedagon Paya

Shwedagon Zedi Daw

Driving past the abandoned colonial houses that once housed British administrators, you notice that you can see the road through a foot wide hole in the rusted out bottom of the 20 year old Toyota Corolla you have hired as a taxi. You pull up to the hill in the centre of town that draws […]

Batu Caves

Back of the Cave

The taxi drops you off in a car park next to a nondescript Kuala Lumpur overpass. All around you is a suburban wasteland of roads and minor industry. You could be in any city anywhere in the world if you face away from what you came to see. From the back of the car park […]

Banteay Srei

Outside the Moat

The tuk-tuk bounces along the dusty road and through jungle. The motorbike that has taken the place of a horse in pulling your carriage putters and splutters after its recent refill of two-stroke from the roadside vendor who sells the stuff in old cola bottles. The thick foliage gives way to an open space as […]