02/18/08 - 03/04/08

01/24/08-02/18/08
Kolkata, Varanasi, Agra, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Delhi, Amritsar

01/14/08 - 01/20/08
Phnom Penh, Siem Reap

12/28/07 -01/14/08
Hanoi,Halong Bay,Ninh Binh,Hue,Hoi An, Nha Trang,Dalat, Saigon

12/18/07 - 12/28/07
Mekong River
Luang Prabang
Vientaine

11/22/07-12/18/07
Phuket, Koh Samui, Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Sukhota, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Mai Sai, Chiang Saen, Chiang Kong

10/17/07 - 11/21/07
Brisbane, Surfers Paradise,Byron Bay, Coffs Harbour, Port Macquare, Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne

10/02/07 - 10/15/07

10/08/07-10/15/07

09/14/07-10/01/07

Bali, Lombok, Komodos Island, Rinca Island
08/24/07 - 09/13/07
video komodo dragons eating wild buffalo: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8561621684669623884

08/15/07-08/24/07

Hong Kong - 08/06/07-08/13/07
Macau 08/13/07 - 08/15/07

Weihai-Jinan - 07/24/07-07/25/07
Beijing - 07/25/07- 07/31/07
Shanghai - 08/01/07 - 08/06/07
Suzhou - 08/04/07

Busan 07/09/07-07/11/07
Gyeongju 07/11/0-07/14/07
Andong 07/14/07-07/15/07
Sokcho 07/15/07-07/17/07
Seoul 07/17/07-07/23/07

Tokyo - 06/13/07-06/18/07
Nikko - 06/18/07 - 06/19/07
Hakuba- Matzumoto- 06/19/07 - 06/20/07
Nagano- Jigokudani- 06/21/07
Kamakura - 06/22/07
Hakone - 06/23/07
Nagoya - Takayama - 06/24-06/25/07
Kyoto - 06/26/07 - 06/29/07
Osaka-Nara-Himeji-Kobe- 06/29/07-07/02/07
Okayama-Kurashiki-Hiroshima-Mijajima-Tsuwano-07/02/07-07/05/07
Nagasaki-07/05/07-07/07/07
Hakata-Kurume-07/07/07-07/09/07

http://www.lulu.com/content/661323

"If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it"
~ Andrew Denton

http://public.fotki.com/Kkaplin/a_journey_around-1/antarctica-1/

...the land of the ochre people...

http://public.fotki.com/Kkaplin/a_journey_around/namibia-1/

...a land that time forgot....

http://public.fotki.com/Kkaplin/a_journey_around/madagascar-1/

Coffee table book is available for purchase here:
http://www.viovio.com/shop/1581

"..A baobab is something you will never, never be able to get rid of if you attend to it too late. It spreads over the entire planet. It bores clear through it with its roots. And if the planet is too small, and the baobabs are too many, they split it in pieces... " ."Antoine de St. Exupery

Lyrics by: Jose M. Suñe
An emotion (1926)

Cherry Blossom - Washington DC , 2005/2006

Lyrics by John Spillane

Keystone,Colorado, November 2004

"If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning. " ~Griff Niblack

Some people superstitiously believed their souls were stolen through a painted or photo portrait.