View allAll Photos Tagged Local_Guide
Our local guide, Rian, blowing bubbles from the stem of a leaf!
Borneo Natural Sukau Bilit Resort, Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
Kankrajhor
Kankrajhor is a beautiful tourist destination of Jangalmahal Circuit in West Bengal, India. It is situated in the tropical, hilly forestlands of Jhargram district. It comprises 9000 hectares of hardwood forests. The wealth of trees includes Kusum (Ceylon oak), Shaal (Shorea robusta), Segun (Tectona grandis), Mahua (Indian Butter tree, or honey tree- Madhuca longifolia ), Piyal (almondette or calumpong nut, ) and Akashmani (Acacia auriculiformis), as named in Bengali. Its tribal villages at the edge of forests and ethnic people will make you feel a happy stay. Kankrajhor is just 22km from Ghatshila (Jharkhand) & 65 km from Jhargram town.
Beyond the fertile Gangetic plains of Bengal, Jhargram offers the most exotic undulating topography culminating in hilly ranges of Belpahari, Kankrajhor in the north to the serene and meandering Subarnarekha River in the south. Nearby famous Dolma Hills are frequented by animals from Bihar, including tigers, leopards and elephants. Bears and wild boars are frequently found in the hills in search of Mahua flower sap. The sap is a potent intoxicant in the region and is used to make country liquor, simply called Mahua. This is a regular corridor of elephants. They are very much fond of this Mohua flowers and get intoxicated...a pleasure to watch in a full moon night. Every year at this time of month elephants frequently enter into these villages and spoil the crops.
It is a favourite destination for people who love forests and tranquillity. Its exquisite forestry, ancient temples, native folk cultural and tribal dances, makes it an extremely attractive destination for tourists who love yet unspoiled nature and her people of the soil on the face of earth.
How to Reach Kankrajhor-Belpahari:
By Train: The distance from Howrah to Jhargram station is 157 Kms and the journey takes three hours by train from Howrah.
By Road: Jhargram is also very well connected by highways with other nearby cities like Medinipur, Kharagpur, Durgapur, Bankura, Purulia, and Kolkata.
Personal experience
In the first week of April, this year, we suddenly planned to go to Kankrajhor, in the district of Jhargram, West Bengal, India. We drove straight from Kolkata to Jhargram, and then another 60km drive to the heart of Kankrajhor. Our destination was a private cottage with very basic arrangements situated in a small tribal village, on the edge of the forests. This time of a year it was little bit late to enjoy the dazzling blooms of Palash, described as “Flames of the Forests” (Butea monosperma). But this was a right time to cherish the beauty of Shaal-Piyal-Mohua trees everywhere. The green new leaves, sweet intoxicating fragrance of Mohua flowers and the extreme business of the wild bees and birds, will always remind you the youthfulness of a spring. The red lateritic forest floor is an experience to walk on. While walking on its undulated trails through forests you will hear only the relentless chirping of birds and murmurs of dry leaves being moved by frequent gust of cold breezes. Such ambiance in an afternoon will surely make you intoxicated and drowsy, free of all wiriness and stresses of busy urban life, and will help you enter into a peaceful siesta. One may arrange tribal dances amidst this forest, their native home. Their beating of drums, and the indigenous harmony of dances will make you fallen in love with this place. I’m sure. With the sunset the whole surroundings suddenly turn into a mystical darkness. Far from the distance sitting in the hut you may hear the intermittent sounds of nocturnal birds, hyenas, jackals and foxes.
The dinner is very simple. Country chicken and rice is a luxury here. We had the wonderful taste of its country liquor made from Mohua flowers (Madhuca longifolia). It was a wonderful experience for all of us.
Simple and beautiful tribal people there, basic stay with optimal standard and simple healthy food, unspoiled nature, tranquillity, and serenity...all will definitely make you feel... “How much we need to be happy?” Really?
2014-11-07
Leica C3
Kodak Ektar 100
Thanks again to Bryce Bradford for being my local guide in Colorado www.flickr.com/photos/brb_photography/
As we explored Oxford one gray Sunday afternoon, we passed a very long queue of people waiting to be admitted to its most famous college, Christ Church, with all of its Harry Potter connections. A local guide recommended that we take a look inside New College instead, and we were amazed at its history, quality and tranquility. Unfortunately, photography was not allowed inside the magnificent chapel, dining hall and library, which we highly recommend. (The same person also said that Exeter College was especially worth exploring but we did not have time on this trip.)
New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Its official name, College of St Mary, is the same as that of the older Oriel College; hence, it has been referred to as the "New College of St Mary", and is now almost always called "New College". One of the most famous and academically successful of the Oxford colleges, it stands along Holywell Street and New College Lane (known for Oxford's Bridge of Sighs), next to All Souls College, The Queen's College and St Edmund Hall. It is one of the main choral foundations of the University of Oxford. In 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £143m.[1] In 2006 New College sold some of these assets to provide a substantial salary windfall for its fellows (among other uses).
Despite its name, New College is one of the oldest of the Oxford colleges, having originally been founded in 1379. The second college in Oxford to be dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, it was founded by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester. It was founded in conjunction with the famous Winchester College, which was envisaged as a feeder to the Oxford college, and the two institutions have striking architectural similarities: both were the work of master mason William Wynford. Both Winchester College and New College were originally established for the education of priests, there being a shortage of properly educated clergy after the Black Death. William of Wykeham also established New College School to provide for the education of 16 choristers for the chapel.
As well as being the first Oxford college for undergraduates and the first to have senior members of the college give tutorials, New College was the first college in Oxford to centre on a main quadrangle, with student rooms, a dining hall, a library, and study rooms within the square ring of buildings and gates. The quadrangle design inspired many of the later colleges, perhaps most recently St Catherine's College, Oxford because Arne Jacobsen was an ardent admirer of "the Oval", or oval-shaped lawn in the old quad. (New College's quadrangle is not the first in Oxford, however, merely the first to contain all of the above elements; the first quadrangle was Merton's Mob Quad. Merton's dining hall, though, is in a connecting building outside the quad, as is its chapel.) At the time of its founding, New College had the grandest collection of buildings for a college in Oxford, a testament to Wykeham's experience in administering both ecclesiastical and civil institutions as the Bishop of Winchester and High Chancellor of England.
The New College grounds are among the largest and most beautiful in Oxford. The Cloisters and the Chapel are of particular note, as is the old City Wall (around which the College is built); much of the mediæval stained glass in the antechapel has recently been restored. The gardens are equally impressive and include the decorative Mound (which originally had steps, but is now smooth with one set of stairs).
The bell tower contains one of the oldest rings of ten bells, which is rung by the Oxford Society of Change Ringers and the Oxford University Society of Change Ringers. The college is also in possession of a respectable collection of silver (including the mediæval silver gilt Founder's Crozier, housed in a display case in the chapel), and two notable "unicorn horns" (in fact narwhal tusks).
In addition to its academic reputation and its impressive set of buildings, New College is internationally renowned for its chapel choir. As part of the original College statutes, William of Wykeham provided for a choral foundation of lay and academical clerks, with boy choristers to sing mass and the daily offices. It is a tradition that continues today with the choral services of evensong and eucharist during term. In addition to its choral duties in the chapel, the choir has established a reputation as one of the finest Anglican choirs in the world through its many recordings and concert tours. The chapel organ was built by the firm of Grant, Degens, and Bradbeer in 1969, in a case designed by George Pace; somewhat revolutionary at the time, the instrument remains no less remarkable and idiosyncratic today.
The College's motto, created by William of Wykeham, is "Manners Makyth Man". The motto was in many respects fairly revolutionary. Firstly, it was written in English, rather than Latin, which makes it very unusual in Oxford, and is especially revolutionary considering the College's age; even St Catherine's College, founded in 1965, has a Latin motto ("Nova et Vetera": "the new and the old").
Secondly, the motto makes a social statement. While it might initially seem to be suggesting that it is beneficial to have good manners, this does not really capture its full scope. What it really means is that it is not by birth, money, or property that an individual is defined, but by how he (or she) behaves towards other people.
We had so much fun hiking on glaciers our first time in Iceland that we had to make sure we could do it again on our second trip. We went out with Aron from Öræfaferðir / Local Guide Travel Service again, this time for a glacier hike on the Fjallsjökull Outlet of the Vatnajökull Glacier. We would highly recommend their services! Please feel free to check out the link below for more information.
We didn't get to see ice caves this time around as they are not able to be viewed in the summer, but this was a small ice formation formed in the glacier that I found to be interesting.
I took this at night in the Medina in Fès, Morocco. This is the kind of "Pile it high...sell anything" shop that used to exist in dear old Blighty in what is now a bygone age. Everything from spices to bleach...who could ask for more?
Navigating the Medina in Fès is an adventure in itself. You should have one of the following:
a) A very good sense of direction
b) A reliable local guide
c) A GPS system
d) A very big ball of string to unravel behind you
You could easily get lost and wander for weeks if you're not careful. It's vast in scale and a veritable labyrinth.
It's shots like this which remind me why I love my Canon EOS-5D. Its performance in low light conditions is astounding. This was taken at 1600 ISO, but I get very little noise even when I go to 3200 ISO. :-)
Beng Mealea - Treasures of Angkor.
Sixty kilometres from the heart of the Angkor empire in Cambodia lies the ruined temple of Beng Mealea, almost the same size as Angkor Wat but reclaimed by nature a millennium after it was first built.
Beng Mealea is special because it’s one of the Angkor temples that’s been left to be reclaimed by nature, unlike most of the other temples which were restored by the French in the 1800s after centuries of neglect. Beng Mealea is also impressive despite lying in ruins due to its sheer size – from the 1860 drawing by Louis Delaporte you can see that it was built in a similar style and size to Angkor Wat itself, which remains to this day the largest religious monument on the planet.
There’s something very picturesque about walking through the ruins, similar to Ta Phrom in the main Angkor complex, although Beng Mealea is far bigger and has several levels giving different vantage points down into the temple’s heart. Whereas Ta Phrom has its foliage regularly pruned to keep it being completed taken back by the jungle, Beng Mealea is the real thing. Local guides can take you scrambling through the complex to show you the most interesting parts of the fallen masonry and sculpture, many bits of which are hidden away from view. If you want a sense of what it was like for the first French explorers when they discovered Angkor, this would be the nearest you’ll get to it.
Our local guide in the Lahu village (near Chiangmai, Thailand) building a fire to cook breakfast for us trekkers
Yande was my local guide in Bali. He was a nice friendly chap and took me to some really cool places which I wouldn't have come across otherwise. I spent an entire day with him and he kept me entertained with his knowledge about the region. He had some decent photo skills to go with his other talents.
I was hiking around the Eastern Rim of the Kathmandu Valley with a friend under the watchful eye of local guide, Angfula Sherpa. When I heard that the penultimate leg of our walk for the day was the ominously named “1000 steps”, I worried. In Nepal, “steps” always means up, not just forward! I can outstrip a lot of people on the flat, but present me the slightest incline, and these days it stops me in my tracks.
For the PhotoBlog story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/dhulikhel-to-nagarkot...
We had so much fun hiking on glaciers our first time in Iceland that we had to make sure we could do it again on our second trip. We went out with Aron from Öræfaferðir / Local Guide Travel Service again, this time for a glacier hike on the Fjallsjökull Outlet of the Vatnajökull Glacier. We would highly recommend their services! Please feel free to check out the link below for more information.
This is a shot of a ball of moss hanging out on the glacier.
Ingólfshöfði is a nature reserve that's home to thousands of nesting sea-birds, like puffins and great skuas. This birdwatching tour was taken with the group Local Guide, which hauls people across a massive black sand beach in a hay cart to reach the cliffs where the birds live.
At Sodwana Bay we got a local guide to take us on a little hike in the forest. These white flowers were everywhere.
Birds were not so abundant, but we did come upon a mixed flock working its way through the forest which included a Green Malhoka, a really interesting relative of the cuckoos.
Thanks to my brilliant local guide, Angel Martinez, for finding this very sleepy Stygian Owl (Cuban subspecies: A.s. siguapa).
Soplillar, Playa Larga, Matanzas, Cuba.
On our first day in Ecuador, we had lunch near the village of Otavalo where we were entertained by children from the local school. We passed the hat and shared tips, which were divided up by our program manager. The children loved that part of the festivities !
They danced with us, and I showed them my pictures and somehow we communicated although they had no English :)
Part of the vast expanse of black sand over which we drove was under water.
Ingólfshöfði is a nature reserve that's home to thousands of nesting sea-birds, like puffins and great skuas. This tour was taken with the group Local Guide, which hauls people across a massive black sand beach in a hay cart to reach the headland and cliffs where the birds live.
Today was a full day with our local guide Randy out on the land. We started by visiting a Thule culture archeological site where we saw excavations and a reconstructed dwelling, along with lots of Arctic Poppies and some Loons on the pond next to it. Next we travelled north past the airport to the Tupirvik Campground, and on to 3 Mile Lake, where we stopped briefly. The next stop was at 5 Mile Lake, where our guide Randy set up a base with a windbreak tent, to enjoy tea and bannock. From this base we set out on a 6 km hike over the tundra to a pond noted for family of Eider Ducks. Returning from that pond, we spotted the remains of a Musk-ox calf, and took in some view from a bluff above the river that drains 5 Mile Lake. Following the shoreline back to base, we saw a family of Brant Ducks. We returned to Resolute Bay for dinner, then reconnected with our guide Randy for some exploring of the coastline SE of the hamlet of Resolute Bay. To end the day, our last stop was a visit to the memorial of the August 20, 2011 crash of a First Air B373. An episode of the TV series "Mayday" featured this sad disaster.
Our local guide led us to the Basti Restaurant on the Via Dolorosa in the Arab Market in Jerusalem's Old City.
Two U.S. Marines trail behind a local guide during the Battle of Okinawa. Can the guide be trusted?
To view more pictures, please visit my MOCpages account: mocpages.com/moc.php/199045
This was without a doubt the best day of our trip. We went out with Einar and his son from Öræfaferðir / Local Guide Travel Service. They were both amazing, and we would highly recommend their services! Please feel free to check out the link below for more information.
Our first stop was to throw on some crampons and hike along the Svínafellsjökull Outlet on Vatnajökull Glacier. These were some of the most breathtaking sights we have ever seen, and it was even more amazing to be on them and experiencing them first hand.
Pictured here is my wife and I posing in front of Pig Mountain, covered in clouds (right). Many thanks to Einar for taking the shot!
Interesting trivia facts from our guide, Einar:
An early fight scene between Christian Bale and Liam Neeson in Batman Begins was filmed on this glacier. Because the glaciers are always melting and evolving, we did not see the glacier exactly as they did, but this is still where it all went down. Interestingly, Liam Neeson was not even aware they were shooting a Batman film at the time of the shoot. Director Christopher Nolan apparently likes to play things "very close to the chest." Here is a shot of my wife and I reenacting their exciting battle.
Additionally, episodes from Season 2 of HBO's "Game of Thrones" were filmed here. Icelandic locals get a real kick out of the scenes on display because chase scenes that were intended to take place over the course of several miles clearly show the distinctive "Pig Mountain" (Svínafells, hence Svínafellsjökull means "Pig Mountain Glacier") in the same spot in the background, clearly indicating that they had only moved maybe 100 feet in between shots.
Nikon D800
24-120mm f/4 Lens
Our travel guide and the local guide at the Cervantes monument. From a guided tour to some 'highlights' of Madrid, Spain - September 02, 2017.
We had so much fun hiking on glaciers our first time in Iceland that we had to make sure we could do it again on our second trip. We went out with Aron from Öræfaferðir / Local Guide Travel Service again, this time for a glacier hike on the Fjallsjökull Outlet of the Vatnajökull Glacier. We would highly recommend their services! Please feel free to check out the link below for more information.
In this distance here, it's hard to see, but there are several sheep grazing on the side of this mountain cliff. Apparently, their owners have to round them up when the season starts. I was just blown away that they got up there in the first place!
㊣台灣7-10旅遊聯盟【超凡旅行社有限公司=桃園總公司】｛桃園.新竹.苗栗=中國大陸線.出團量第一名｝
※專業代理Local.主力產品【中國大陸.泰國.普吉島.蘇美島.清邁.清萊.高棉.金邊.吳哥窟.印尼.巴里島.】
交觀甲字號=6344；品質保障協會=桃0088號
▲歡迎旅遊咨詢【服務電話TEL：03-4945528.4946638.】陳新辰(手機)0916-958045.0933-774756.
■《超凡超級假期=超凡旅行社》網站 www.super-local.com.tw
◆《德瑞克的旅遊好好玩》BLOG部落格 blog.yam.com/derek58
◆《德瑞克的旅遊好好玩》BLOG部落格 旅遊相簿 album.blog.yam.com/derek58
★《德瑞克的旅遊好好玩》Flicker 相簿照片 www.flickr.com/photos/derek58/
●《德瑞克的旅遊好好玩》旅遊影音俱樂部 mymedia.yam.com/club/derek58
A local guide rides his donkey to meet a small group of visitors for a trek along a riverbed up to the high country of the Anti-Atlas Mountains.
These photos are from the Vancouver Sun Newspaper Architecture Tour series – Palm Springs Mid-Century Modern Adventure hosted by columnist Shelley Fralic and local guide and expert Kip Serafin. We toured houses by Richard Neutra, Donald Wexler, John Lautner, A Quincy Jones, William Krisel, Albert Frey and Hugh Kaptur, mostly built in the 1950s and 1960s. But we also took in many of the other sites and sounds of Palm Springs during modernism week, and had a bit of time for sunrise and sunset photography elsewhere in the valley. We had a wonderful time and would recommend others to upcoming Vancouver Sun tours, or other architecture tours in Palm Springs.
.
.
.N07_4887_stitch cyl edit6
NOLA 2018 - Drunken History Tour
Do you want to take a tour of the French Quarter but don't want to stop partying long enough to do so? This experience might just be for you. Start your night off by joining a local guide for a visit to some of our city's most important destinations while sampling a few famous New Orleans cocktails. Our drunken history tour is a two hour, 21+ experience and it comes with one free drink included.
New Orleans and booze go together like Red Beans and Rice. We've been the party capital of the American South since before it was American or South. Around here we've figured out that just about anything can be enhanced with some (a lot) of alcohol. That's why we decided it was about time our visitors had the opportunity to stroll through the French Quarter, learning our history while simultaneously indulging in an age old New Orleans tradition (drink like a local).
This 21 and older experience isn't your ordinary walking tour. For one, the tour guide can, and will drink with you the whole time. Being a full walking tour of the French Quarter, you'll get the riveting stories and important knowledge necessary for a full understanding of our unique city, but thanks to the inclusion of alcohol and the characteristic lack of children, don't expect the guide to leave out any of the gruesome or sexy parts.
( Deux semaines a Nola pour la ville et pour WWE Wrestlemania XXXIV
Two weeks Nola for the city and for WWE Wrestlemania XXXIV )