river smut

I've noticed that the Portuguese seem to take great pleasure in innuendo and puns— it's in their music (most notably in Pimba music), and in Aveiro, this naughtiness is painted on boats in the brightest of colours. The distinctive moliceiro with its dramatically curled bow and stern, was crafted in such a way as to facilitate the gathering of seaweed for fertilizer. Now, the beautiful moliceiros mostly offer tours up and down the Ria de Aveiro.



I'll leave it up to you and Google Translate if you are curious— the general themes of the scenes are sexual— clams and codfish are mentioned quite a bit.



Despite their smuttiness, they're quite lovely aren't they?

essaouira: a last look

For now!

the sky turned pink

across the golden horn

He claimed he wasn't a dolmuş, but we paid this grey-moustached gentleman five lira to ferry us across the Golden Horn from Karaköy to Eminönü in his little red boat.

sketches of oman, part 2

...by the sea, in the desert.

the edge of both sea and desert

at the end of the day

In Sítio das Hortas in Alcochete, the sky was an incredible thin veil of pink and lavender, and the light glowed golden. I felt my heels sink gently into the soft sand while an amorphous cloud of thousands of Glossy Ibises descended upon their roosting grounds.

estuary

In the fading light, one thousand five hundred Glossy Ibis flew to their roost.
It was our best guess, but there was no questioning the magic.

a threatening sky

floating market

lush

the mighty mekong

From the Tibetan plateau to the South China Sea, the mighty Mekong snakes its way through China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. It happens to be the world's 10th largest river— and my goodness...
it is beautiful.