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"The world is a book and those who don't travel read only a page." (Saint Augustine)
Where now?...
Looking towards Alaska. At the eastern edge of Chukotka.
In a fishing harbor at the eastern coast of Atlantic. 
In the village of Xijiang in Guizhou province (south-west China), where the Miao people live, traditional wooden architecture...
...as well as the old customs have been well preserved... The wedding ceremony is getting ready, so people have the fun...
At the Russian czars residence in Tsarskoye Selo.
At Corentyne River on the Suriname & Guyana border.
In the
Lower Valley
of the Omo, close to
the border of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan, live - not always in peace and
friendship - about ten African tribes, with quite distinguished cultures.
On the Athos peninsula, within surroundings of splendid, unspoiled nature, there are twenty monasteries inhabited by the orthodox monks. Their architecture and location is poignant, as in the case of Xenofontos.
In the front of Filotheou monastery.
Dionysiou. How to be sure which view is more gorgeous: from the monastery over the sea, or from the seashore at the monastery?...
Each monastery, also Dochiariou, including as well the ones in the mountains, has his own sea jetty, called here arsanas.
Zographou, inhabited by the Bulgarian monks, is one out of five cloisters located not ion the sea, but in the mountains.
One of the largest and quite unique cloister complex is the Russian Agios Panteleimon.
To get to the Simonos Petras monastery is not easy, so what a great effort it has taken to rise this splendid monument!
The Gregoriou monastery, hence bearing the name of my patron, Saint Gregory. Yet the Julian calendar...
The Caribbean islands most often, and not without a cause, are perceived through the beautiful sea and the great sailing.
But there are also hills and mountains with a breathtaking views...
...and picturesque towns, as St. George's - the capital city of Grenada.
After diving in the bluea, waters of the Caribbean Sea there is nothing better than the hot corn right from the grill!
From this perspective - at the stairways of National Museum of Iran In Teheran - the time is joyful and the future seems to be promising. Let's the youthful dreams come true!
In Tel Aviv
In Casablanca. 
Also here, on the steep streets of Kasbah, a unique kind of medina, or Islamic city, the feelings happen to be cheerful, especially if the whole long life is ahead of us.
Zhenyuan is a beautiful, old Chinese town. It's so charming that it doesn't have to called itself "Venice of Guizhou province".
On the main street of Gudym at Chukotka. In a ghost town which supposedly hadn't even existed. At the time of cold war here was the base of transcontinental nuclear missiles aimed at the USA. And the taxi driver says: "And kakiye zdyes shagaly krasaviye dyevushky!" ("And how beautiful girls had been walking here!!")
Algeria. On Sahara one can still find oasis, where the Berbers continue to live according to their old, traditional way of life.
At the bus station in Venezuela.
And where is Julia?... Under the world most famous balcony in Verona.
Sunrise over Alaska, which is on the very far ...east. Even further than Czukotka. During the cold war the USA western coast had been carefully monitored from here.
At the Lao capital - Vientiane - at the Buddhist temple Pha That Luang.
At the market square of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In St. Petersburg
In Bahrain over 30 percent of population are the immigrants from south Asian countries. There are making their living through hard work, including the fishery, which the local people had given up long time ago..
Not far away, in Qatar, pearl diving is the thing of the past, if not counting some tourists which do scuba diving in the waters of Gulf, called here the Arabian. However, the pearl - the foundation of economy before the discovery of oil some 70 years ago - has deserved her own beautiful monument.
The greatest attraction (UNESCO World Heritage Site) of the gorgeous Kamchatka - the land of fire and ice - is about 200 volcanoes, of which about 30 is still active. It seems that the Creation continues here...
Time to go...
...and now it's time to enjoy the coconut!
And from time to time one must also visit Washington, DC...
...and Moscow.
And - without doubts - to Brussels !
And also to Budapest...
...and to Prague.
Edinburgh. At the monument of Boby, the famous dig, so faithful to his master, that he's become a hero of popular story and Disney movie.
The people of the old Muslim walled city Harar, in east Ethiopia, have had for a long time a unique relations with ...hyenas. These indeed beautiful and nice - yes! - creatures are coming on the evening close to the city walls and there are welcome by the "hyena man", who feeds them. If one wish one may try to do so too...
At the Caucasus.
And at Kamchatka.
The Magellan landing, the place where in 1521, during his circumnavigating world voyage, anchored Ferdinand Magellan. The indigenous people, Chamorro, still count over 37 percent of the population of the Guam island.
At about the same time, e.g. early XVIth century, at the other end of the great water on the west cost of Indian Ocean, the Portuguese discoverers, this time unlike Magellan sailing eastbound, established their post at Ilha de Mocambique. The chapel of Nossa Senhora de Baluarte (at the background) is the oldest structure built by the Europeans in the southern hemisphere.
Even earlier at the western cost of northern Africa, on the Atlantic rocky bank, the harbor city of Essaouira, with a fortress, had been constructed by the Portuguese. Hence, already in the 16th century they were active along the three oceans, taking care of their businesses. At that time, however, the notion of "globalization" did not exist yet... It is here where Orson Welles shot the famous movie "Othello".
Guam. The 800 hundred years old Latte Stones are stone pillars of ancient houses notable for their two-piece construction; the supporting column (halagi) topped with a capstone (tasa). The latte is the signature of the Marianas Islands (Guam, Rota, Saipan, Tinian, Pagan), since the most massive ones - up to 4 meters high - are found primarily in the Marianas.
In Andes, on pick-up, with the people from the pueblos...
...and lonely ride on motorbike.
Morocco, winter 2010. By the truck through the Dades Gorge, Atlas Mountains.
Waiting for an airplane to San Blas Archipelago at the Caribbean cost of Panama...
...and for a ferry to Ile de Gorée at the other end of Atlanic Ocean, in Senegal.
On the lake Malawi to disembark, while sailing by the famous Ilala steamer, one has to take an overcrowded cockboat...
In turn, in Japan the most convenient way of traveling is by super express
The failure of a bus engine is always a problem, but especially if it occurs at the desert of Dankalia in Eritrea, probably the most inhospitable place on earth with the temperature reaching 115F!
Quite tranquil is trekking, the more so while surrounded by the green hills of eastern Africa.
Yet not everywhere and not all the time... Trekking in the Caribbean rain forest.
Yet there are the place where one can move forward only by the 4WD car, as is the case at the extremely heat African desert close to the border of Djibouti.
At Czukotka one has to travel a lot by the small and rather slow, especially while going up the river, motorboats.
Yet in Tuscany one may drive Ferrari.
Where the cherries and plums trees blossom. At the Osaka castle, built by famous Japanese leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
...and to have a magnificent panoramic view at the lake from historical town of Livingstonia one must climb for the hours the escarpment.
In Swaziland there is still possible to buy more traditional medicaments at the local market than in the modern town pharmacy.
Not only Africa is beautiful. So is Amsterdam. Especially at the autumn.
And on the road again... Africa...
Just to Tombouctou!... 
Along the Atlantic cost a lot of Wolof people are traditionally involved in fishery.
Barbados. The room with a view... And nobody's calling!
And
balcony with a view... Panorama seen from Arch 22 in the Gambia capital, Banjul.
ATLANTIS submarine. Not yet "20 thousand miles...", but at least a short yet
Where
the lemon tree grows. With a friend from the students days - Peter
Trus -
At the City Wall (muralla) in Avila, Spain. This magnificent structure from XIth and XIIth century is protected as the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage
Dogon country in Mali has been included on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List for its unique village architecture and its nature
Quite different, but still beautiful, are the buildings erected by Fulani, also in Mali
Everybody needs a break! Especially the camel...
In the ancient times the caravans were traveling from Chinquetti (in today's Mauritania) to Timbuktu (in Mali) in 55 days. The short distance to Ouadane can be traveled in some 3 days...
Among the Tuaregs during the journey on a camel through Sahara
Twilight at Barbados
The great and unique temple of Angkor Wat built in the XII century
Ta Som temple built by Jayavarman VII in 12th century. The magnificent ruins of Angkor, Cambodia, are indeed fascinating
At the eastern cost of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. The inhabitants are extraordinary kind and hospitable...
...and at another end of the global village, in Cambodia...
... and yet another one in Mali... . ...and in Tayrona Indian village in Colombian jungle...
...and one more in Mauritania
And in Mongolia
And at the Panama's coast on the Caribbean Sea, at the Archipielago de San Blas, between Cuna Indians.
And in Dong minority village in Chinese province Guizhou.
Among the Karibs at the Atlantic coast of Dominica.
Savai'i island, Samoa. The only place on Earth where - looking to the West - one always sees TOMORROW
There are only seven Bahia temples in the world. The one in Delhi is shaped after the lotus flower
Next temple shaped after the Lotus flower. This time on Samoa - islands of southern Pacific
On the Chinese Great Wall
In the Tibet's capital, Lhasa, the mighty Buddhists monastery Potala, with the Red Palace --traditional home of each successive Dalai Lamas -- dominates the whole city
The railway station at Vladivostok. The end or the beginning of the great Trans-Siberian Railway?
And in Krasnoyarsk, at the two third of the way to
Moscow, on the longest in
Of course!
And not at all any sign of Nessie, the famous monster from Loch Ness in northern Scotland. Yet plenty of rain.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania. For Masays the time runs as if slower...
The May's ruins located in the center of the tropical jungle, in Tikal (Guatemala) fascinate theirs beauty and grandeurity
No less impressive are the Maya ruins Chichen-Itza at the Mexican peninsula of Yucatan...
...and the pre-Hispanic city of Uxmal
The holy Indian city of Teotihuacan was built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D. It is characterized by the vast size of its monuments, in particular the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon.
Tiwanaku still remains mysterious and splendid. What had happened with a civilization that here - at the high Andes, on the shore of today some dozen kilometers retreated bank of the Titicaca lake - already two thousand years ago was able to construct such wonderful monuments?
On the "Silk Track". Registan - the mosque and Muslim seminars in Samarqand in Uzbekistan
The Mystery of Stonehenge still imperf. These stones are here from 5000 years...
...and these ones - in the Hagar Qim temple on Malta - even since 500 more
Lisbona. With Polish TV star and deputy prime minister advisor — Anna Popek
Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Moai figures at Tongariki
Alaska. Winter at Glacier Bay National Park
...and Spitsbergen (Svalbard). Summer at Kongsfjorden.
In New Your with daughter Gabriela
On the September 11th, 2001 the world was shocked by the terrorist attack on America
Washington. With El¿bieta Dzikowska, famous Polish globetrotter and art historian in the builiding of the World Bank
India. In the midst of the Assam tea fields
At the Sheraton Resort in Haikou, on the Hainan island, at the South China Sea...
...but more comfortable at the Phousi guesthouse in Luang Prabang in Laos...
...and - no doubt about that! - still more comfortable at the bed on the road in Ditochi, on the Ethiopian and Djiboutian border.
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