Hangzhou: between traditions and modernity
Photographs of Hangzhou which lies in the southeast coast of China. Located at the southern end of Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it is widely known for its beautiful landscape of West Lake. In the saying “Upper in heaven is the paradise, lower on the earth are Suzhou and Hangzhou”, is expressed ancient and modern people’s heartfelt [...]
Ruacana Falls and Epupa Falls Namibia
Ruacana Falls and Epupa Falls Namibia is a serie of photographs taken in the northern and remote areas of Namibia in January 2010. The Ruacana Falls and Epupa Falls are created by the Kunene River on the border of Angola and Namibia, in the Kaokoland area of the Kunene Region. The river is 0.5 km [...]
Sossusvlei, region surrounded by high red dunes in Namibia
Photographs of Sossusvlei, a salt and clay pan surrounded by high red dunes, located in the southern part of the Namib Desert, in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia. The name “Sossusvlei” is often used in an extended meaning to refer to the surrounding area, which is one of the major visitor attractions of Namibia. [...]
Kolmanskop, a ghost town in the desert of Namibia
Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port town of Lüderitz. It was named after a transport driver named Johnny Coleman who, during a sand storm, abandoned his ox wagon on a small incline opposite the settlement. Once a small but very rich mining [...]
Bleak and imposing landscape of the Skeleton Coast in Namibia
The Skeleton Coast is the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean coast of Namibia and south of Angola from the Kunene River south to the Swakop River, although the name is sometimes used to describe the entire Namib Desert coast. The Bushmen of the Namibian interior called the region “The Land God Made in Anger”, [...]
A community project in Gouina, Mali
Pourquoi Gouina ? Pour ses chutes, leur beauté et l’image qu’elles donnent du Mali, pour la ruralité et l’échange qui peut en résulter entre nos différentes cultures, parce que nord ou sud nous faisons face aux mêmes enjeux, pour les hippopotames, pour le grand potentiel du lieu et sa tranquillité et parce qu’il n’y a [...]
Mopti, a hub in Mali
Mopti is a city at the confluence of the Niger and the Bani in Mali, between Timbuktu and Ségou. The city lies on three islands linked by dykes: the New Town, the Old Town and Medina Coura. As a result it is sometimes known as the “Venice of Mali”. The city of Mopti derives its [...]
Harnas Foundation in Namibia
Harnas Wildlife Foundation is an organization located in Namibia, one of the few wildlife orphanages and medical centres in the world to take in abused, injured, and captured wild animals… Harnas Wildlife Foundation is an organization located in Namibia, approximately 300 km east of the capital Windhoek. HWF is one of the few wildlife orphanages and [...]
Saint-Louis, the other side of Senegal
Saint-Louis, or Ndar as it is called in Wolof, is the capital of Senegal’s Saint-Louis Region. Located in the northwest of Senegal, near the mouth of the Senegal River, and 320 km north of Senegal’s Capital City Dakar.
Morocco, from North to South …
Photos taken in 2010 and 2008, in various locations in Morocco. Follow the slide show and travel from The Riff to the desert doors in the Western SaharaMorocco is a North African country that has a coastline on both the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
Bamako and the Niger, the crocodile river
Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali, and currently estimated to be the fastest growing city in Africa. It is located on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the Upper and Middle Niger Valleys, in the southwestern part of the country.
Kaokoland, the most untouched side of Namibia
Kaokoland lies in the NW corner of Namibia’s Kunene Region. Today it remains the most ‘untouched’ and remote part of the country, much of it still only accessible by 4×4 on hardcore tracks – not for the faint-hearted!
The Dogon Land, the living mythology in Mali
The Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of Mali, south of the Niger bend near the city of Bandiagara in the Mopti region. The population numbers between 400,000 and 800,000.
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the Kalahari regions
The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, is located in the Kalahari regions of both Botswana and South Africa and came into being as the official merger of the Gemsbok National Park in Botswana and the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa.
Okavango Delta and the wildlife in Botswana
The Okavango Delta (or Okavango Swamp), in Botswana, is the world’s largest inland delta. It is formed where the Okavango River empties onto a swamp in an endorheic basin in the Kalahari Desert, where most of the water is lost to evaporation and transpiration instead of draining into the sea.
Cape Town a little town with laid back character
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa,and the largest in land area, forming part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality.
3 Day Safari to Etosha National Park Namibia
Etosha National Park is the 2nd largest of Namibia’s game reserves (after Namib-Naukluft National Park , Africa’s largest and the worlds 4th largest nature reserve).
15000 KM in South Africa
Journey through 2 countries, Namibia and South Africa. 15000 km recording the road with a tiny Sony phone !
Cairo Aswan via the Sinai Desert
Cairo is the capital of Egypt and, with a total population in excess of 16 million people, one of the largest cities in both Africa and the Middle East.
