I met these friendly, cheeky young locals in 1990 in Lahore, Pakistan, while visiting the impressive and beautiful 15th century Mughal mosque, the Badshahi mosque. I was making my way slowly from London to Kathmandu on an overland truck. Photos of the faces of people I come across in my travels take me right back [...]
Rafting the Sun Kosi – the best thing I have done travelling (so far)
None of us slept well that night, our fourth night of sleeping in pup tents on the sand in the bends of the Sun Kosi river in Nepal. It wasn’t lack of comfort, or lack of tiredness – whitewater rafting all day and getting up before sunrise meant we were happily exhausted and crawling into [...]
#fridayfaces – on the Sunkosi, Nepal
After paddling the rapids all day, we pitched camp in the sand on a bend in the river at dusk, and this local boy started swinging around a paddle, fascinated by our rafts and our camp. The photos which I enjoy taking the most when I travel are the faces of people I come across [...]
Pakistan needs our help – still!
“flood aid slows to a trickle” is the (small) headline in The Australian this morning. “The situation in Pakistan is rapidly getting worse” says today’s email from oxfam. The flooding has been going for a month now and it hardly even makes the news anymore. I am still staggered by the scale of this disaster, [...]