Travel & Photographic Itinerary 2025 - 2026
In 2025 I spent almost 4 months in Europe and in early 2026 I spent another 3 weeks traveling around Guizhou Province (my second trip to this wonderful region) shooting many new works to be added to my portfolio including many for my book on Guizhou Province that will go on sale in July 2026.
The book will be printed in both softback and hardback to order
plus there will be a PDF version suitable for tablets such as iPads.
There is a lot of new work !
From China :
Guizhou, Chongqing, Furong, Fenghuang, Ancient Hui villages,
Shanghai's Suzhou Creek, the gorgeous Jiangnan Watertowns and Wenzhou
Istanbul & Cappadocia
Iceland (a month spent hiking and camping)
Lisbon, Porto and other villages in Portugal
Vienna
London Streets
London Pride March
London's Notting Hill Carnival
and Devonian & Cornish villages!
My plan for 2026 is still to tick off some new (to me) iconic China locations and revisit much loved provinces and sites.
Xinjiang,
Gobi or Taklimakan desert
Guangxi
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 2026 but only for 2-3 months this time, that will mean trips to:
Italy
Lithuania
Latvia
& Estonia
It's possible an Antarctic trip (2027) 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 & April - May 2026
This trip commenced on the 3rd March 2023.
I was there for a total of 6-7 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 !
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
Potentially 2026 on our European trip
Not only one of my wife's top destination picks but one of mine. A 2026 trip is a possibility!
Turkey
Instanbul & Cappadocia
2 weeks completed !
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 2026 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 2026
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
Completed !
These icons had long been on my China-list so it was time I ticked them off.
This was part of a 4 week long trip to Gansu Province and especially Labrang Monastery.
It was amazing !
Indonesia
Locations to be confirmed
Dates TBC but 3-4 weeks during 2027
Island Hopping ! Itinerary to be confirmed.
A planned tour was cancelled due to covid and so far the rescheduling has been put back and back as other destinations took priority. That was six years ago !
Hopefully it will happen in 2027!
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 too had to be postponed.
April 2027 looks to be the best date in my calendar however it may clash with my planned Spring 2027 Xinjiang trip so ... to be decided !
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 !
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!
