Tanjung Datu National Park- A rare female turtle lays eggs, the release of hatched turtles, and CIVET!!!! If you come to Tanjung Datu National Park for a guaranteed sighting of animals and a safari, then you have come to the wrong place…. Tanjung Datu is a narrow strip of forested hills and isolated untouched beaches. …

Bako National Park- Proboscis Monkeys, Watermelon Monkeys, Vipers, and Flying Lemurs Bako National Park Bako is one of the best places to see wildlife while staying near a beautiful beach.  The park has mangrove forests, heath forests, tropical swamps, cliffs, and of course beach.  The only way onto this island is taking a boat ride…

Top Spot- Hands down the best seafood in the world!  Nothing else comes close I like to think of myself as a person who knows his seafood pretty good.  This is one of the first things I try when I get to a country that has an ocean and I am anywhere near the ocean. …

Malaysia             PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINKS BELOW TO SEE SOME GREAT WILDLIFE AND SCENERY Malaysia is one of those rare countries in the world that pretty much has it all if you are a traveler.  From great food from the mixing of different cultures, to beautiful scenery, to some of…

Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur just like Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore is a very big city that serves as a major financial hub in Asia and the world.  While it is a city that is spread out geographically and has a population of almost 2 million in the city and the greater area about 7…

Brunei     Brunei is a country that does not often pop up on a map of places people would like to travel to.  As a matter of fact, most people do not even know it is a country as it shares the island of Borneo with Malaysia and Indonesia and makes up less than…

Myanmar As I could not get enough of this place in 2014, I decided to make a return trip to see some sights that I simply loved- Yangon, Bagan, and Inle Lake.  Of course there are many places I loved here, but these two stood out and I wanted to spend more time there. As…

Yangon is of course the biggest city in Myanmar and still has its charm.  Of course, big buildings and chain restaurants and hotels are going up everywhere (but what place will you not find these in the world).  Landing in Yangon, I noticed that they have a Pizza Hut and KFC which they did not…

Bagan Bagan is a site that is never to be missed in Myanmar.  Sitting on the banks of the Irrawaddy River, it is home to the largest concentration of Buddhist temples, pagodas, and stupas in the world.  Most of them date from the 11th to 12th Century.  A great hotel to stay at here which…

Inle Lake is possibly one of my favorite destinations not only in Myanmar, but in all of Asia!!!!  It is becoming touristy during the recent years, but I believe it is good for the peoples economy here!!!!  It seems that tourism has not slowed down their traditional way of life as they have been doing…

Mt. Popo We had the chance to get out of Bagan for a day and travel along one of the main country roads to Mt. Popa.  Along the way there was great scenery of farmers working in the fields and on the roads…. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] We had the chance to stop by…

Nepal- Snow capped mountains, fertile valleys, colorful cities, beautiful people, aggressive monkeys and the famed one horned rhino Nepal in Winter of 2019- The Return           Nepal is a destination that has been visited by travelers for years.  It is of course home to some of the best trekking in the…

Kathmandu-  The Last Day The last day in Kathmandu was probably the most picturesque as we went to different temples, stupas, road pictures, and monkeys!!! We went yet again to the to the Monkey temple and watched the monkeys run around and saw a different part of the temple and it was not disappointing…. ”…

Kathmandu is a sprawling metropolis that reminds me of a cross between Cairo and Dhaka.  With big truck, cars, motorcycles and scooters coming at you from all directions, you must really watch where you walk.  This city is a very colorful city with buildings painted different colors as well as very colorful dress for the…

Leaving Kathmandu, we headed to Pokhara which is a lakeside town that is beautifully built.  The scenery along the way does not need writing but viewing the photos below… ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] If you can get away from the scary roads with the buses and trucks, then you can notice people everywhere living…

From Waterfalls and Mountain Scenery to Chitwan National Park In Pokhara we had the chance to visit a lovely waterfall that went to an underground cave and see how the Hindus made a shrine out of it which was miraculous to see… ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] We had the opportunity to go to a…

Chitwan National Park was the first National Park established in Nepal in 1973.  Since its inception, it has garnered world wide attention for its grasslands and subtropical deciduous forests.  Its main claim to fame is of course the One-Horned Indian Rhinoceros which has its largest Nepalese population here in this park.   ………………………………………………………………. A great…

Its not often that you run into a problem with landslides going back on the main mountain highway of a place, but we sure did, however, that did not deter us from making the best out of it as there were many photos to be had along this slow journey… ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]…

Paro to Thimphu Flying in from Dhaka, we only had six people on our flight which is probably a record for me on any flight I have ever taken.  Immigration was cleared in a second and the only problem I had was paying a 200 percent tax on tobacco (this would have been a good…

Thimphu Area Thimphu is the capital city of Bhutan with around 150,000 people.  Built in a valley among some mountain passes and next to a river, it is one of the most picturesque cities from the mountains in a lot of Asia.  ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] We went to a Memorial Chorten Stupa and…