Huashan is a mountain located about 120 kilometres east of Xi’an- China’s old capital. It’s home to some very dicey walking tracks, a really spectacular set of cable cars, a tea house perched on a cliff face and a photo studio with some genuine occupational health and safety issues.
Earlier this year I tagged along with the Australian/International off-pissed ski team to the slopes of Myokokogen. Matt chose Myoko because the guidebook gave it four and half snowflakes out of five in the ‘powder’ category. Also because our plan called for us to go from there to Kyoto and then onto Tokyo and we wanted to make sure our itinerary doubled as a tongue twister.
On South Africa’s western cape we visited the coastal towns of Kalkbaai, Hermanus and Gaansbai.
The entry point for my brief tour of China was the southern Province of Sichuan-famed for its incredibly spicy food and baffling theatrical performances. I flew into the capital Chengdu at the start of October and explored the city between bouts of rain before venturing out into the nearby mountains.
Right in the center of the biggest city in the world an experiment in agriculture is being conducted.
Sani Pass is a stretch of road on the border of South Africa and Lesotho. The stretch of road between the South African border post and the summit is one of the most treacherous roads I’ve ever come across.
One out of every five fish caught on planet earth is sold at Tsukiji fish market. Every day more than 2000 tons of fish pass through the market in Tokyo’s Chūō district.
2015 led me back to Tokyo. This time I spent most of my time in the district of Sumida in Tokyo’s Northeast.
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The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo is a run-down testament to the ambition of some of Japan’s most celebrated post-war architects.
Dozens of climbers with red lights mark out the Hörnli ridge route to the top of the Matterhorn to pay tribute to explorer Edward Whymper and his team, which ascended it for the first time 150 years ago.
Some images of Berlin’s International Congress Centre designed by Ralf Schüler & Ursulina Schüler-Witte in 1979.
Some images of Berlin’s controversial museum of near-eastern antiquities including the massive Pergamon Altar.
Photos taken at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium- site of the infamous Nazi games of 1936.
A series of images of the abandoned East German ‘Spreepark’ taken in May this year.
All the skyscrapers in Paris are concentrated in a region several miles from the city centre in an area known as La Defence.
As I’ve travelled over the last few months I’ve hopped mainly from city to city and noticed a pattern…
