Tag: mountain
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A Journey to Jabal Al Akhdar: Magic in the Mountains of Oman
Today’s adventure took us to breathtaking heights—quite literally! After an hour of climbing over 3000 meters, we arrived at Jabal Al Akhdar, Oman’s stunning Green Mountain. The journey itself was a thrill, navigating steep inclines and hair-raising descents before reaching a tiny village perched amidst dramatic mountain peaks. We began the day in Nizwa wearing…
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Taking your spirit for a walk~
I remember as a child getting very excited about the occasional long walks we took to our favorite monastery pocketed in the heart of the Lebanese mountain overlooking the valley of the saints. We walked for hours and felt the importance of our pilgrimage with every dusty step. It says so much about pilgrimages and…
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Tajik Smile~ Tashkurgan
In the town of Tashkurgan, home of the Tajik people in Xinjiang, bordering Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan, I met this boy in the old mountainous Pamir region. It is said that this town marks the middle way between Europe and China. The faces I saw there were unforgettable.
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Anhui Diaries~
From a recent journey to the old villages around Huangshan (yellow mountains) of China’s Anhui province, I was utterly inspired with the landscape, the feeling of calm that blankets the area and the mystical sense of being so far away from it all. It made me think a lot about the nature of water, and…
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Searching for home~
Ask me where I am from, where home is, and I find myself thinking before I answer you. This is the case for so many of us these days. We come from mixed race marriages, we leave our home countries, we live in a new place, we move again, we marry from yet another country…
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Day 18~ December 18th~ Guilin
One of the rewards of going into far away parts of China is meeting innocence. Innocence lives her sister simplicity with the natural people of this world. My friend who travelled with me on this trip has amazingly beautiful and extremely curly hair and at the sight of it a crowd of sweet women gathered…
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Day 20~ October 20th~ Yunnan
When getting food requires you to go up and down a mountain, then its value increases tenfold. Hani man with his crop of corn~ Yunnan
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Day 15~ October 15th~ Yunnan
Like old friends they walked down the mountain road, a man and his helper, friends after years of long lonely walks, man and bull finding a common language, because that is what happens when closeness heralds warmth between planetary beings.
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Day 9~ October 9th~ Yunnan
One hour walk to school, school is on the other side of the mountain, one hour walk back home… so much effort for receiving a fraction of what our children take for granted.
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Day 1~ October 1st~ Yunnan
Yunnan, a place the clouds and the mists favor, a place that moderate weather loves to stay around in, a place that has more than 25 colorful minority groups calling it home, a place of breathtaking beauty, this will be the subject of the next 31 days of photos. The origin of the name Yunnan…