Flash Back – as I was going through some of my old photos, I found some images of rare birds taken at Galapagos Island quite a few year ago! Blue Booted Boobies: Frigatebirds: Brown Pelican: White Tailed Tropical Bird:
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Yellowstone National Park – Fall 2019 Part 1
We visited Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks last week and were happy to see the peak of fall foliage especially the brilliant golden color of aspen and cottonwood trees. We also see many wildlife in the parks
Rain Forest in Olympic National Park
We toured both Hoh and Quinault Rain Forests in Olympic National Park. According to statistics the rain forests receive about 128 inches (3246 mm) of rain per year which is more than three times as much as that of Washington DC area. Hiking in the […]
Pacific Northwest Photo Tour
Over the past 7-8 years I have led many of our photo club members to most of the American National Parks in the Western United States and the most rewarding and memorable trip was probably the Pacific Northwest taken in this time of year (late […]
World Heritage Sites in China
We visited China about ten years ago in 2007. We first toured Yunnan Province in southwestern China and afterwards spent 10 days in Beijing to tour all the tourist spots in the area, including Chengde Mountain Resort. Here is the picture of the Great Walls […]
World Heritage Sites in Italy
My first visit of Italy was in 1998 and that was before the digital camera become popular. I still remember taking fifteen rolls of Kodak 36 exposure film and coming back for developing and printing and sadly throwing away half of the prints (what a […]
World Heritage Sites in Croatia
We had a very nice visit to Croatia in December of 2008. That was many years ago before I established my website (blog) and before I ever heard of the term “World Heritage Site”. We were most impressed with the old southern town of Dubrovnik […]
Twyfelfontein Rock Arts
Designated as World Heritage Site in 2007 (http://africanworldheritagesites.org/cultural-places/rock-art-pre-history/twyfelfontein.html ), Twyfelfontein rock engravings and paintings were dated back 2,000 to 10,000 years. “Twyfelfontein is an ‘open-air gallery’ with the largest single concentration of rock art engravings in southern Africa. There are over 2000 rock engravings and a few rock […]
Mt. Fuji Japan
I took this picture about ten years ago when our plane was on holding pattern waiting to be landed at Tokyo Narita Airport. It was a rare occasion because the plane coming from U.S. crossing Pacific Ocean normally does not see Fujisan before landing at Narita. […]
Gondolas in Venice
If you ask me which city I’d never get tired of visiting – my answer is definitely Venice. It’s such a unique and fascinating place to just walk around and get lost sometime but no matter where you go and at every corner you turn […]
Blue Footed Booby in Galapagos Islands
We visited Galapagos Islands during Christmas holidays four years ago. We saw many kinds of birds we normally do not see in lower continental USA. One particular bird really drew our attention was blue-footed booby – the adults and the chicks. We even saw a […]
Mesa Verde’s Cliff Dwellings
To tour Mesa Verde National Park in southwest cornet of Colorado state is to learn how Ancestral Puebloans lived for 700 years during A.D. 600 to 1300. They were also referred as Anasazi people or in Navajo’s word of “ancient people”. It is the best […]
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