A quick one to say that Cubans really have the prettiest umbrellas! Loved the designs I saw here.
Trawling the Quito Cultura website last week (as I do every Sunday) I came across the following advertisement for Leyendas Nocturnas (Night Legends) at the El Tejar Convent in downtown Quito. From the description, it seemed as if it might follow the same formula as the awesome night tour I did at the Santiago General…
Those of you who have been following for a while know that I’m a massive fan of Greenlandic music. I had an awesome time at the Akisuanerit Festival in Nuuk in 2019, and one of the things I was looking forward to in moving to Sisimiut was that it is home to another of Greenland’s…
Besides Yerevan, the only other things we had time to see in our extremely short sojourn in Armenia were two monasteries. Haghbat Monastery (975AD) This is a medieval monastery complex with several structures, the largest of which is the cathedral of Surb Nishan. With its dome supported by 4 large pillars, it is a typical example…
The drive from Samarkand to Bukhara is a seemingly never-ending display of agriculture and what would appear to be Russian commission houses (all identical). Along both sides of the road, an irrigated, green region fans out to a width of a few kilometres, but look a little further and you can see the arid hills…
One of my favourite memories from when I visited Quito 13 years ago was clambering all over the Basílica del Voto Nacional. So much so that I decided to do it again this trip. In particular, I loved the scant regard to the OH&S laws that shut down most kinds of fun in Australia and other…
After a good night of sleep, Day 2 in the Toro Toro National park saw us joining up with some others to drive about an hour up to the Ciudad de Itas. This is a rock “city” that is quite a bit higher than Toro Toro (you need to take a jacket or you will be…