John Boyd Macdonald
John Boyd Macdonald
Seoraksan was the first National Park to be declared in South Korea. It’s situated up in the far northeast corner of the country, only a short distance below the border with North Korea. It has a great combination of spectacular…
Almost all of the historic palaces, Buddhist temples and monasteries in Korea are in excellent repair due to careful preservation or painstaking restoration. And it is no wonder – because they are stunningly beautiful! It turns out that the unique…
"we became very interested in the cultural phenomenon of people visiting historic sites (like temples, palaces etc) and dressing up in replica clothing from ancient times."
I've been along to a couple of the regular working bees at the Southern Tablelands Ecosystems Park ('STEP') a.k.a. Forest 20 at the National Arboretum Canberra.
The Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) got its name because…. well it’s obvious really. They are large monkeys, and the males in particular have impressively prominent noses. They are colloquially referred to as ‘Monyet Belanda‘ (Dutch monkeys) as there is a…
Along the rivers of Kalimantan, huge areas are under water for much of the year, including of course during the wet season. Villages in these area will often have all of the houses and roads built up on tall pillars…
Long time no post… After seven years without a functioning printer, we recently acquired one*. Since then I’ve been having fun: trawling through photos from our years in Indonesia (mostly Kalimantan), selecting, re-editing, printing and framing a small number of…
It’s more than six months ago that we were in North Sulawesi/Sulawesi Utara (Indonesia), so well past time that I posted some pictures of birds that we encountered there. These pictures, from Tangkoko and the Tomohon region, highlight just a…