Pictures of Istanbul

To take a break, here are a couple of pictures of Istanbul.

Pictures of Göreme

Pictures from South Africa

While you're waiting for the rest of my adventures in South Africa, here are a couple of pictures taken from Cape Town to Gordon's Bay.

United States in pictures

Here are pictures of this first trip of 2013. It brought me to Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Death Valley, and from Los Angeles to San Francisco along California's coast.

Pictures Time!

Because I didn't get to post as many pictures as I thought I would during my trip, I take the time to upload a couple of them from the last days of my adventure. Stay tuned. This blog is not dead.

Malecon, Havana, Cuba

Calle San Miguel, Havana, Cuba

Iguazu Falls, Puerto de Iguazu, Argentina

La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina

La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina

A picture is worth a thousand words

Bangkok

Mount Nebo, Jordan

Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai

Simple entertainment

Andreas is working hard to get that picture.

It was already established that a big share of traveling is about people we meet. In that way, the best memories are not always the one we make by visiting well known places.

Couple of days ago, I spent the evening with another backpacker who stayed in my hostel for one night only. No time to see Shanghai for him. So we took a walk to the Bund, the walkway along the Huangpu river. The beauty of going out at night with other people is to stop in unexpected places. It is to spend less time at your destination than everywhere else you stop on the way.

In this case, we had fun taking night pictures without a tripod. We needed to be smart, so we used a paper cup we found on the ground and a lighter to take a picture of... a bike. The Chinese walking by, after midnight, wondered what two white guys could find interesting about that old bike. The question marks in their eyes shed more light than the lampposts. They couldn't understand. But I will remember. I didn't count the number of attempts, but there was a lot. So like it or not, here is the result.

Pictures of New Zealand

Auckland

Devonport

Rangitoto

Tangariro

Here are some pictures for those who are not on Facebook and haven't seen those yet. It's a small preview of what you can see in New Zealand.