Road to Punakha As the scenery here is amazing, we left Thimphu and went over the pass to Punakha through pristine trees and lovely mountain scenery.  The pass at the top had a memorial to the soldiers who lost their life during the Indian insurgents who lived in a part of the country some years…

Road to Phobjikha It is time to get up into the highlands of the country as we go from 4500 feet to 9600 feet in just a few hours of driving along some of the most brilliant landscape you can imagine.  Going along the windy roads was met with the brilliance of the pine covered…

Highlands to Paro We left the beautiful highlands in the morning on our long road back to Paro seeing the scenery that we passed just days before, and yet it was still amazing as the people were out going about their every day life and the clouds were floating above… ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]…

As we were driving up to over 12000 feet to a hike to a nunnery, the views were amazing covered by sun one minute and foggy clouds the next….. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] The hike to the nunnery took a few hours through the clouds in the sky to dry pine forests to wet…

Bhutan Paro to Thimphu Around the Capital Thimphu On the Road to Punakha On the Road to the Highlands Highlands to Paro Nunnery and Brewery Paro Taktsang– The Tigers Nest If you have spent your life living in El Paso and you look at the architecture of Bhutan, you will notice the country looks like…

Tigers Nest or Paro Taktsang is a Himalayan Buddhist site that is located just a few minutes from the town of Paro.  This site is one of the most iconic and visited places in all of Bhutan and should not be missed if you travel here. Of course we had our last day of on…

Floating Market and Way Back to Dhaka As our time in Bangladesh was coming to an end, it would be ever so fitting to spend most of our last day on the water, as this country does have over 700 rivers . We got up early and made our way a couple hours to a…

 On the road and water to Barisal Leaving the Sundarbans area we headed in NE direction to Barisal, and of course there was a lot of color on the road with people living there everyday lives in small villages that we drove by and also walked around…. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] We had the…

The Largest Mangrove Forest in the World The Sundarbans is one of the natural wonders of the world as it is the largest Mangrove Forest in the world that spreads across Bangladesh and West Bengal in India.  About 2/3 of it is in Bangladesh while the remaining 1/3 is in India and it draws people…

Banana Markets, Off the highway villages, and goats on top of buses   The Road to Khulna was filled with different types of people from banana farmers to people waiting on the road for their rides, and even over-packed carts full of people waiting to be dropped off to their villages. This seems to be…

A country that will surprise even the most skeptical traveler             For Bangladesh in Winter of 2019-2020 click Here Bangladesh is a country is South Asia sandwiched in by India, Nepal, and Myanmar with an outlet to the Bay of Bengal and the mouth of the Ganges River.  As one…

Tangail- The Jungle Countryside Leaving Dhaka, we headed through some back roads on the outskirts of Dhaka through the highway to some back roads in the country.  We stopped at a beautiful pottery village (which was by no means tourist oriented) as no one tried to sell us anything at all.  Instead we were followed…

On the Road to Rajshani Leaving the jungle like countryside, we headed back to the crowded highway with the chorus of big beeping trucks jamming the highway with their shipments of produce from the fertile north to the rest of Bangladesh.  We stopped at a small weaving village along the way where electric machines run…

Dhaka Dhaka is a massive city of about 18-20 million people.  As any big city the traffic is always a problem, however the many rickshaws (about 2 million of them) help alleviate the traffic just a little.  Dhaka is divided into two parts, the old city and the new city.  The new city lined with…

The Countryside road to Kushtia As we start off our morning on the deserted banks of the Ganges, we moved to a SW direction of the country to the city of Kushtia.  With more fertile farmland that anyone can imagine in one country, most of the people in this area seem to farm Mangos as…

Beijing and the (Un) Restored Part of the Great Wall             Another successful trip with students as I added two more bucket list items- Beijing and the Great Wall of China.  I would like to thank CCC Travel for this great trip.  They did an amazing job with the program,…

Inner Mongolia From Grasslands, to Genghis Khan to Deserts             Inner Mongolia is an autonomous region in the north of China that straddles the country of Mongolia.  With its vast grasslands dotted with yurts and its vast oceans of endless dune deserts, it would be easily mistaken for being Mongolia. …

An Extra Day added to the island will never hurt anyone When I went to Goqui Island in October, I fell in love with the Island.  Not because of the abandoned fishing village overgrown with vines all over the houses, but because of the simplicity of the island.  I decided to return in the Spring…

Thousand Island (Qiandao) Lake This area which is a couple of hours from Hangzhou, has some of the most amazing scenery in China.  The Valley was flooded in 1959 to make way for a Dam project, thus creating the man made lake with tiny islands all around.  There is an underwater ancient city that was…

Rainbow Mountains A geological phenomena that lives up to its hype (and the long journey)           Rainbow Mountain is a trip that I wanted to do since before I moved to China and was number one on my bucket list of things I wanted to do here.  With expectations so high,…