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Roadtrip

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

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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 !

Image by Jonatan Pie

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 !

Image by Sammy Wong

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!

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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!

Kyoto _ Momiji Overload.jpg

JAPAN

Sakura in the Spring of 2025 or 2026.
Hopefully we'll be able to travel there for 3-4 weeks traveling from
South to North traveling as the Sakura season blooms, region to region

Japan is a short flight from Shanghai so trips there are usually unscheduled !
But will always be based around the 

Koyo (紅葉) and Momiji (紅葉) 

GREENLAND

Postponed 
It has returned to the 'bucket list' for now !
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