Travel & Photographic Itinerary 2025 - 2026
In 2024 I spent almost 6 months in Europe and added many new works to my portfolio
many of which will soon be added to the site and go on sale.
There is new work from :-
China's Ancient Hui villages
Shanghai's Suzhou Creek
Shanghai's Water-towns
China's Wenzhou
Istanbul
Cappadocia
Iceland - the month I spent there in 2023
Lisbon
Porto & other towns and villages in Portugal
Vienna
London Streets
London Pride March
London's Notting Hill Carnival
and Devonian & Cornish villages!
My plan for 2025 is still to tick off some new (to me) iconic China locations and revisit much loved provinces and sites.
Xinjiang,
Gobi or Taklimakan desert
Qinghai,
Gansu,
Rice terraces of Yunnan
Time permitting I'd love to make another trip to the spectacular
Hallelujah Mountains of Avatar
(in reality the region is known as Zhangjiajie, which is in Hunan province bordering Guizhou).
We will return to Europe again in 2025 but only for 3-4 months this time, that will mean trips to:
Greece
Montenegro
Croatia
Lithuania
Latvia
& Estonia
It's possible an Antarctic trip (2025/6) is in the works - with my daughter having just returned from there and my wife is now keen for us to go !
Trekking the Indonesian Islands is earmarked too !
Previous Trips 2023-2024 & some planned for 2025/6
CHINA
Guizhou Province
March - April 2023
This trip commenced on the 3rd March 2023.
I was there for 4 weeks covering the route of my provisional plan,
and then some extensions I added on.
One of the most interesting being a trip to the last remaining 6 villages of the Longhorn Miao ethnic minority tribe living in the mountains of S.W. Guizhou.
ICELAND
5 weeks hiking & camping
Completed Summer 2023
A fourth trip to this magnificent country made my heart beat faster ! Photographically it is surely one of the most spectacular
places on earth.
For that trip my plan was for a series of short (2 days up a week) visits to various spectacular sights at locations in the Icelandic Highlands plus the return to a handful of previously visited gems.
The Icelandic Highlands was beyond expectations !
GREECE
Islands & Meteora
2025 on our European trip
Not only one of my wife's top destination picks but one of mine. A 2025 trip is planned !
Turkey
Instanbul & Cappadocia
2 weeks in Spring 2024
This wonderful country had been sitting for a long time
on my To-Do list !
Finally we managed to schedule a visit and spent 2 weeks between Istanbul and Cappadocia. Superb ! Now we can't wait to return.
CHINA : TIBET
Tibetan Plateau
DECEMBER 2024 is still possible ...
as long as the border is open to foreigners.
Maybe not many people realise it but the Tibetan Plateau covers a vast area across the North of Tibet and what are the pre-annexation lands of Western China. This vast area consists of lands inhabited mainly by ethnic Tibetan people having lived a traditional Tibetan way of life for decades after fleeing persecution by rich landowners enslaving them in Tibet.
The areas are geographically quite similar, both contain very high mountains, have vast plains and both areas are at cold Northern latitudes.
Tibet and the bordering Chinese provinces of Qinghai to the North and Sichuan and Yunnan (to the West) are all gorgeous !
CHINA
Xinjiang Province
Autumn 2025
This huge and amazingly geographically diverse province has massive lakes, numerous deserts, gorgeous mountains, lush green valleys and culturally numerous distinctive minority tribes.
Getting around is not easy due to security controls and vast, unpopulated distances to cover. Xinjiang is more than x6 greater in size than the UK and more than x3 the size of California !
But it should be an adventure !
CHINA
The incredible Danxia Rainbow Mountains
Spring 2025
These icons have long been on my China-list so it's about time I ticked them off.
So long as it rains first to bring out the saturated colours!
Indonesia
Locations to be confirmed
Dates TBC but 3-4 weeks during 2025/6
Island Hopping ! Itinerary to be confirmed.
Covid meant a cancellation and so far the rescheduling has been put back at least five years from 2020 to 2025/6!
CHINA
Tibetan Sichuan including : Jiuzhaigou National Park
The first 2 weeks of my 5 week itinerary was COMPLETED in November 2021 as scheduled before a Covid outbreak meant travelling around was virtually impossible. The remaining 3 weeks were rescheduled to April 2022 however with the pandemic lockdown in Shanghai this will have to be postponed to even later, April 2023 looks to be the best date in my calendar.
The utterly spectacular Jiuzhaigou National Park, at an altitude of over 3,000m (10,000 ft) is a famous UNESCO location that rates as one of China's finest destinations, whether you are a foreign tourist, domestic tourist or a dedicated photographer.
This park was the first stop of my 5 week itinerary and I managed to complete my one week there before going on to Huanglong, Songpan, Heishui (inc. the Dagu Glacier) and Maoxian.
The balance of my schedule in the Ngawa & Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures in Sichuan includes : Miyaluozhen, Bipenggou, Siguniang Mountain, Danba County, Garzê, Hailuogou Glacier Forest Park, Litang & Daocheng.
ITALY
The Dolomites of Northern Italy
Completed in 2023
After the delight of last Autumn's successful Hiking & Wild Camping trip to the Dolomites it's inconceivable not to return on our next trip to Vienna, our home-base in Europe!
