Squirrel monkey mama with baby
Into the Amazonian Jungle
In the Amazon jungle of Ecuador, far from the border town of Coca and hours down the Napo River, we did several safari walks. We were based at a lodge (La Selva Ecolodge) on a…
DJLU street art, Cartagena
Quite Contrary: Cartagena and Medellin
On the Caribbean coast of Colombia, during the carnival-like celebration in January, many celebrants dress up as Cayman Man. Half cayman (the local crocodile) and half human, the mythical figure embodies several dualities, human and…
Phallic column, El Infiernito
Oddities of Villa de Leyva
The town of Villa de Leyva is perhaps a kilometer square, but it features one of the largest cobblestone plazas in all of South America. Around the square and in the grid of streets, many…
Journalists' Park and Bogota's hills
The many levels of Colombia’s highlands
Colombia is a land of plenty, one of the most biodiverse in the world, awash with rivers, filled with fertile lowland and highland areas - in an overall area about 50% larger than Texas and…
By Rodez, with tags and flaking paint, on Bogota's oldest building.
Street Art, Bogota
Bogota has a vibrant street art culture. It began decades ago as expressions of rebellion by the young along with distaste for civil war politics, the political corruption that impoverished many, and the pernicious drug…
Central church of Cali at night
Music of the Starlit Night – Cali
The stars peeked out from behind the soft clouds, just a few of the brightest overcoming the lights of the city. The wind was soft and refreshing in a perfect temperature for sitting on the…
Enjoying cafes at the Prizren riverside
Kosovo: The Ties that Bind
Kosovo is newly emerging as a country, the latest from the former Yugoslavia to be independent - barely so with the ongoing help of NATO and the US since the 1990s. There’s a lot of…
Memorial to Vladika Njegos
Rise and Fall: Montenegro’s Mountain Men
Mountains are in the name of the country, as Crna Gora, or black mountain, from the Venetian title, monte negro. They dominate the landscape, from the very edge of the sea to the innumerable limestone…
Carved wood Orthodox iconostasis, Berat
Tracing Cross-Currents in Albanian Antiquities
In our post about Albanian history (click here to read), we noted all the cross-currents of culture affecting the country – from its Illyrian origins, through Greek and Roman control, the influence of Byzantine and…
Albanian couple
Albania Today: Beauty and the Beast
So many people we meet, interested in going to Albania, are both curious and somewhat fearful about it. They imagine a third world country or extreme deprivation or some such horror because of Albania’s 40…
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