Pokhara

Island temple

Somwhere in those clouds is a magnificent mountain range, but the clouds never moved and we never saw the hills

Road Photos from Arizona, Nevada and Utah

The road to Vegas

Entering Bryce Canyon National Park

Outside Page, Utah

Lafonda at Monument Valley

These caravans are everywhere in the desert. This is a relatively medium-sized specimen, towing a smallish SUV

Roadside dinosaurs in Arizona

Trucks mating

Atitlan at Sunrise

I'm not sure what came over me but one morning I got up with the sun...

A fisherman in one of the boats from the last post

The Light of Lago Atitlan

Lago Atitlan is a beautiful lake in the south of Guatemala. In the mornings, the light is crispy, like this.

In the afternoons, the clouds comes over and the air fills with smoke from old crops being burnt in the surrounding area. The light turns soft and golden.

Volcano Tumbling

Apart from inhaling sulfurous fumes, people climb Cerro Negro to come back down to sea level in what the tour companies promise to be an EXTREME (!!!) fashion. It's called volcano boarding, and involves strapping your feet to a short, snowboard-like object an then swooshing down the basalt slope of the hill. I tried it, and failed miserably at any kind of stylish descent, instead, I tumbled down most ungracefully, filling my gloves, boots and face with gravel. Angie took a toboggan and made it down in one go, but the fact that all the goggles were scratched beyond anything resembling clarity, and also the fact that it was now dark, made the experience a blind one.

The slope looked just like a regular piste, except in negative

Up

Down ...and repeat

Low-light sliding

Laguna de Apoyo

La Laguna from above

Inner tubes provided flotation

Laguna de Apoyo is a large mass of preternaturally clean water cupped inside the crater of a long-dormant volcano sitting beside Lago Nicaragua. Geothermic activity beneath the 200 metre-deep lake keeps the water warmed to the perfect temperature for swimming, and we spent a few of the most pleasant days of our trip kayaking, floating on and exploring the lake and it’s surrounds.

There was also lots of hammock time