Next up in my #icelandalbum, the stunning waterfalls dotted across the country - it is said there are over 10000 (I can believe that, given how so many along the roads don’t even get star billing). I stopped to see only a handful, but each was so unique and aweinspiring.

I knew Iceland was going to be beautiful, but it truly took my breath away. Starting a photo series today of my #icelandalbum

My Uganda trip late last year lives rent free in my mind - and my latest two stories published this month are from those memorable days. Here’s a six-pager on trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to see mountain gorillas.

www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg/lifestyle/ug...

For Travel + Leisure, I wrote about the unique, fascinating ecosystem of Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania - a forest Ernest Hemingway described as “the loveliest I have ever seen in Africa.”

It was a winter wonderland in #Armenia - at Dilijan pass, the unexpected snowfall in late winter was just magical ❄️

Night falls silently on Mount Kazbegi - the view from my room at 9pm #Georgia

Snowy days in Kazbegi #Georgia

The colours of Sri Lanka’s tea country 💚

2024 was also a wild, wild year for me - I saw lions and leopards, cheetahs and servals, giraffe and zebras, hippos and rhinos, chimpanzees and gorillas, elephants and antelopes. I also began the year with tigers at Tadoba and ended it with snow leopards at Ladakh.

Scenes from a small town fair - anyone remember these annual events? It used to so exciting as kids!

2024 was a great year in terms of travel - I saw cherry blossoms in South Korea, stayed with an eagle hunter in Mongolia, walked on the Great Wall near Beijing and marvelled at the Terracotta Army of Xian, hiked to see chimpanzees and gorillas in Uganda, and went on safaris in Kenya and Tanzania.

There isn’t enough snow yet and the landscape is still mostly brown, which makes their camouflage near total. I’ve come back with renewed respect for the spotters who track them and pick them out from the swish of a tail or a flick of the head. 2/2

At 13000 feet altitude and minus 15 temperatures, this was by far the most challenging, exhilarating and frustrating trip of 2024. I went for snow leopards and saw TWO, with each sighting lasting for several hours 1/2

What I’ve been up to these last few days. Watch this space!

Is there any scene more quintessentially African?

Ngorongoro crater is one of the most incredible landscapes I’ve ever seen - a sunken forest ringed by green hills, and packed with an astonishing variety of wildlife. This must be the original Garden of Eden, methinks.
#Tanzania

Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania is known for its unique tree climbing lions - and we saw four of them on this trip 😍

When Kilimanjaro shakes off the blankets of clouds and decides to reveal itself 😍
#Kenya #Amboseli

Important reminder