• Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Trekking in Nepal | Teahouse Trek

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Hotel Sherpa | Bamboo Teahouse | Langtang National Park Most popular treks in Nepal such as Annapurna, Langtang and Khumbu (Everest Region) rely on local trekking lodge or better known as “Teahouse”. After few hours of trekking you can easily find this teahouse or small lodges along the way. You can spent your night there and have your meal also. Tea houses are not hotels, and their facilities can be quite rudimentary, but although prices have increased a lot in recent years, they are still extremely cheap by western standards. Teahouse provided you with only some basic facilities like a basic mattress on a bed,…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Pokhara Nepal | Postcard From Himalaya

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Phewa Lake | Pokhara Nepal “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white…

  • Assignment,  Travel

    Traveling With Laptop | To Bring or Not To Bring?

    © 2009 Wazari Wazir | My Temporary Mobile Office | Istanbul | Turkey Whether to bring laptop or not during traveling, you need to ask yourself this simple question, why do you need to carry a laptop in the first place? If you are working as a travel writer and need to email your article on the road, then maybe having a laptop will be handy but on the other hand if you only intended to use your laptop for emailing, skype, facebooking, backup some photos, then maybe you should not have bring it with you. I personally don’t bring a laptop when traveling on personal traveling. I only bring…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Why Travel? Because Life is a Journey

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Trekking The Langtang Valley | Nepal “Journeys are gifts we  give ourselves. Even if you are very lucky and have someone else footing the bill for your journey, you are still giving yourself a gift just by going. Too many people have opportunities to travel, but choose to stay home, fearful of the unknown, shackled by their everyday rut, tied down to commitments that don’t have to tie them down if they would seek creative solutions. We can’t always travel right away, but we can always be planning, scheming, chiseling away at the things that keep us home so that someday in the hopefully not…

  • Adventure,  Art,  Travel

    Portrait Photography Tips | To Bokeh or Not?

    © 2013 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Daughter | 50mm | ISO 160 | f/2 | 1/500 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Mother and Son at Cameron Highlands | 24mm | ISO 200 | f/5 | 1/160 © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Sarangkot Pokhara | Nepal | 50mm | ISO 100 | f/11 | 1/160 Someone asked me, whether he need to “bokeh” his background or not when taking a portrait. Before that, to those of you who have no idea what is “Bokeh” comes from the Japanese word “boke” which means “blur” or “haze”. Generally speaking it is in out of focus area of an image which normally refer…