Vietnam Sighseeing Trekking Tour – Visit Mai Chau Tam Coc Sapa Bac Ha Halong Bay Hue Hoian Saigon Vinh Long Can Tho

The 21-day trip includes Vietnam important travel destinations and outdoor activities such as trekking in Mai chau, Trekking in Sapa, Hilltribe Colorful market, Countryside bicycle tour, Halong bay cruise with sea kayaking, Hue imperial citadel, Hoian ancient town, Ho Chi Minh busy city, the Mekong delta and much more.

Aug 17 Italy-Etna – Etna Volcano – Creative Commons by gnuckxHa Long Where Tourists Are Ha Long Where Tourists Are

Some cool Ha Long where tourists are images:
Italy-Etna – Etna Volcano – Creative Commons by gnuckx


Image by gnuckx
Mount Etna
Mount Etna, also known as Muncibeḍḍu in Sicilian and Mongibello in Italian, a combination of Latin mons and Arabic gibel, both meaning mountain) is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania. Its Arabic name was Jebel Utlamat (the Mountain of Fire). It is the second largest active volcano in Europe, currently standing 3,329 metres (10,922 ft) high, though this varies with summit eruptions; the mountain is 21 m (69 ft) lower now than it was in 1981. It is the highest mountain in Italy south of the Alps. Etna covers an area of 1,190 km² (460 sq mi) with a basal circumference of 140 km. This makes it by far the largest of the three active volcanoes in Italy, being about two and a half times the height of the next largest, Mount Vesuvius. Only Mount Teide in Tenerife surpasses it in the whole of the European region (though geographically Tenerife is an island of Africa).

LUMBY DAYS! Do You Remember Your First Fair? [HD]

LUMBY DAYS! The Fair! There are more and better events in small towns across Canada than in larger centers. The events are easy to access, lots of free parking and many activities are free.
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Hanoi VietNam travel information

Vietnam’s capital city has to be one of Asia’s most fascinating cities offering a unique blend of oriental and western charm. It is a city of exotic brightly painted temples and pagodas, elegant ochre-washed colonial villas, bustling narrow streets and alleys, grand tree-lined boulevards and shaded lakes. First established as Vietnam’s capital in 1010,

when it was known as Thang Long, the city’s name changed several times before it eventually became Hanoi in 1831.

My favorite assignment 2010

Saveur Magazine sent me on assignment late last year for a story they ran in their December 2008 issue. The assignment was a food feature on Iraqi refugees living and practicing their food traditions in Beirut. The situation was pretty intense for a photographer, let alone a western woman operating in a
Hezbollah-run neighborhood where journalists, especially foreign ones, were prohibited and detained. My access was limited and quick as we didn’t want to draw too much attention to the Iraqi men, which could have been very dangerous for them.

Swallowing Clouds-Andrea Ngyuen’s new book

This is an image taken from my most recent assignment, working on Andrea Nguyen‘s newest book due September 2009 (Ten Speed Press). I spent all of last week in San Francisco working with the Andrea and food stylist Karen Shinto photographing some 50 images for the book. Andrea’s first book “Into the Vietnamese Kitchen” was ground breaking for Vietnamese cooking in this country. In her dumpling
book she creates beautiful artisanal dumplings and makes the process of creating these bite size pockets of joy relatively easy. From the famous Shanghai soup dumpling to Malaysia’s onde onde, Andrea’s knowledge and writings about this food will be another first of it’s kind. On a personal note, the dumplings were incredible, I had a really hard time not eating my sets, seriously!

FishingGallery on March 2010

On March 29,
Offshore fishing has been UP AND DOWN, one day you could have a wonderful day and the other catch nothing. In other hand, inshore fishing has been better when we fish for full day. It let us reach fishing spots not reached on half days.

On March 27,

- Jake Staser and his girl friend were inshore fishing aboard our Wahoo boat. They caught 3 very good sized dorados and one roosterfish.

Here a few words from Jake: