• Adventure,  Life,  Travel

    The Travel Photographer | Once Upon a Time in Langtang Valley | Nepal

    © 2012 Ahmad Shukri | Photograph of Me at Langtang Valley | Langtang National Park | Nepal “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain – I travel a lot and as a photographer, even though I took thousand of photos from my trip, very few of them have “my picture”, most of the times, it is about other people pictures, a stranger that I met along the way or just simple a…

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    Traveling | A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Step

    © 2012 Ahmad Shukri | A Photograph of Me (The Author) Trekking The Langtang Valley Trek Towards Kyanjin Gompa | Langtang | Nepal With beauty before me, may I walk  With beauty behind me, may I walk  With beauty above me, may I walk With beauty below me, may I walk With beauty all around me, may I walk Wandering on the trail of beauty, may I walk  – Navajo – Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel

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    Himalaya From Above | View From Seat 5F | Window Seat

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Himalaya From Above | Window Seat View I’ve mention in my previous post that, we already book our seats in advance, we choose window seat which is “F”, “A” seat is also a windows seat but for us coming from Malaysia, we know that The Himalaya will be on the right side of us, so we decided to get the “F” seat. When we check-in, we also mention to the person at the counter that we have already choose our seats, just to make sure that, nothing changes and everything is according to our plan. We are photographers, even though we are not “professional” but…

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    Travel Photography | Once Upon a Time at Swayambhunath Stupa | Kathmandu Valley | Nepal

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photography | Swayambhunath Stupa | Monkey Temple | Kathmandu Valley | Nepal The Swayambhunath Stupa is one of the crowning glories of Kathmandu Valley architecture. The entire structure of the stupa is symbolic, the white dome represents the earth, while the 13-tiered, beehive like structure at the top symbolises the 13 stages that humans must passthrough to achieve nirvana. The site has two access points: a long stairway, claimed to have 365 steps, leading directly to the main platform of the temple, which is from the top of the hill to the east; and a car road around the hill from the south leading…

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    Travel | It’s Not The Destination, It’s The Journey That Matter

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | My Shadows on The Way to Langtang From Kyanjin Gompa | Langtang National Park | Nepal | Himalaya “Life is a Journey, Not a Destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson –  The more I travel, the more I realise that, it is really not about the destination that matters the most but the journey itself. That’s why I choose to travel as a backpackers and not through any traveling agency, If I’m lost, let be, I like the hassle and I like the troubles doing my very own stuff and I almost fall off the cliff in the darkness on my way back to Potala Hotel…