The photograhpy thread-Exciting Places of the world

Malaysia-Thailand-Singapore. March 2012, out of cam, resized only. 50 pictures
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Awesome Yen..

 

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Beautiful pics Yen..

 

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If anybody has a question about a particular picture, feel free to ask.

 

WOW..

 

Thanks a lot, guys!
It had been a real exciting trip through 9 different places. I still need time to settle my mind and start over with the common things of life back here again.

For low light situations I wished I have had a tripod or a better cam with a higher ISO, or a faster lens with a wide aperture.

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I am traveling through S-E Asia every year since 2000 as a backpacker. At the first trip we went to Bali with my (ex) gf......from that time I have been addicted to travel like that, especially I like Asian people and cultures. The spectrum of impressions is wide. I had very simple accommodations like a small wooden bungalow..close to the nature.......and a hotel like Carlton, Singapore.

'Green hell' versus high tech city..lol.....total nature surroundings versus man made building / architecture.......simplicity / originality versus consume orientated capitalism....

The world is so manifold. To figure where you stand in common life, you might like to go through the entire spectrum......an experience.....it is mind-blowing. The world is just an idea! To travel extends it.....

 

@Calistoga.

Hi, nice to hear from you again.
I never did my entire trips completely alone, but partly. There had been either the girlfriend or another good friend or even more people with me. And I have friends there I can meet.

But some of the trips I did alone and had met my friends later again. Actually you are never alone.
When you are completely on your own you meet people to talk faster than when you travel with more people. Many of my friends at work had travelled alone their entire trips. It is even more original to travel alone, but not everybody likes it.

I would go alone if nobody joins. To travel, to have the possibility to travel at all is something precious.
When you think it’s important to you to visit North Korea then do it. A good preparation and information about how to get to there (entry requirements) is important. Also if they let you find out what you would like to know, lol.



Some more thoughts to share……..

Those guys in the video have it, the vibes.

I want to take the chance to write down what still has an effect in me, vibrations, impressions…I know they have the attribute to fade away…….to become buried by a dump of common thoughts.


One’s home—one’s world---- to travel and the willingness to let ‘it’ go.

In common life you have your familiar surroundings, your friends, your family, you are connected to your society, your culture where you grow up, where you was a child.
Your way to perceive is actually nothing but to recall familiar patterns in your mind.
Hence the spectrum of awareness is quite limited, you operate at a narrow range, especially when repeating things like to go to work everyday.

To operate at a narrow range causes the impression to feel safe in a familiar world. To live in your own little world, especially at the place / country where you were born. It seems it is an controllable state, even because nothing unexpected has a place to happen.

One’s home, what is it? It’s the most familiar place to return. To be at home is to be safe.

To be at home is to most of us to recall the most familiar pattern of thoughts in the mind.
But is it really a home?

One starts to travel. To travel means one cannot recall his familiar patterns of thoughts anymore. In other words cannot perceive his familiar surroundings.
As result the mind will be forced to operate at a wider range. I mean in both directions (in duality good / bad direction).

This affects the entire ‘you’. Your mood, your worldview.
Foreign, unfamiliar, different, irrational, exciting, menacing, unsafe, strange.
Actually you are ‘far away from your home’. (You think it, at least)

To some of us those attributes are that strong they never would travel far away……..
It is the willingness to rethink what’s one’s home that gives the chance to extend the mind. The powers: Curiosity, tolerance, openness.

I would lie when I say: All the time it had been easy to travel (I am referring to all of my journeys).
There were situations, I came to my physiological limit. (at the bad end).
The situation simply enforced calmness I wasn’t able to find……….a good expression is ‘culture shock’.

But as I have mentioned : Also it extends at the ‘good’ end. You perceive the beauties of the world.
To experience that there are ways of living far beyond of your imagination.
You become familiar with different cultures, you hear people’s stories of life, their sorrows and wishes and dreams. You are a temporary part of their culture and society. You get new friends, you get new impressions, new thoughts, new ways to think. Your relation to your own little world changes. Your relation to your ‘problems’ changes.

I never would go for a kind of journey where I would be isolated from the people there.
I talk to them, I am curious, I want to know how they live. I visit ceremonies, I am happy when I get invited. I taste their food (all of them), I am interested, I’ve talked to monks.

When travelling like this (backpacker), soon some things are changing.
It is the way you see yourself and the world. The meaning of your ‘home’. Your ‘own little world’.
It is also the insight that to live (at home =narrow spectrum) doesn’t mean to live safe(r). It is an illusion.

There will be a time where you have to let ‘your’ artificial home go. To travel is a sort of preparation.

To be at home means to be your’Self’. One might need to travel away from his artificial home to get that his real home is ever ‘with him’.

Snatches of a song 'there is….a never end-ing song…… I sing a-lo-ong….. away?.... I never had been away………..'
Dunno from where but it just runs through my mind, lol.



Step through the doorframe. Leave your idea of your home and little world back to discover that you never can be away.