panorama of northern Mongolian mountains

Wandering Danny - travelogues

Hong Kong, Oxford, Brittany*
food, architecture, megaliths (2007)
Kaikoura to Kahurangi*
New Zealand's Marlborough + Nelson (2006)
Mongolia and Beijing
from the steppes to the metropolis (2005)
North Island New Zealand*
Coromandel, Tongariro, Waikato (2005)
South Iceland + Scotland/England
walks, birds, buildings (2003)
Otago, Southland, Fiordland
New Zealand travelogue (2003)
New Zealand South Island
Westland + Southern Alps (2002)
North Pakistan & Western China
Chitral, Gilgit + Kashgar (1999)
India (Maharashtra & Rajasthan)
with an Oxfam study tour (1998)
England, Catalonia, and France
London, Barcelona, Toulouse, Paris (1997)
Java + Bali, California + Arizona
volcanos and deep valleys (1994)

* incomplete

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community-based tourism in northern Thailand - Guardian
on the list of places I want to visit - Torres del Paine
a visit to Mali - Economist
annoyingly, in reverse chronological order
"when the old Lenin becomes unwanted he just swims away" - EngRuss
African literature: stuck debating Chinua Achebe - NationMedia
a freely downloadable Iceland guidebook - Heimur
I've finished a travelogue - four days in Beijing
new designs for UK coins - Mint

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I hope you enjoy reading about my travels! — Danny

panorama of central Hong Kong