Travels through eastern Australia (Cairns, Alice Springs, Uluru, Sydney) with Odysseys-Unlimited, 2018.

I lived with my family in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 1981 to 1983. The few photographs I made were on Kodachrome which turned out to be very contrasty when I later scanned them. Some, accidentally acceptable, I still like. Others are just a record.

Two weeks in Siem Reap gave me time to visit many of the Angkor temples. Those images are in the gallery Historic Buildings. Here are the people I met in and around Siem Reap and a village at the edge of Tonle Sap Lake.

Selections from our tour to Australia and New Zealand during April 2018 with Odysseys-Unlimited travel company, led by Allan MacKay.

I went to Nepal in late 2001, during the Dasain holiday, and did NOT go on a trek. Instead I hung around Kathmandu with my camera, seeing the UNESCO-designated heritage sites including Bhaktapur, Patan, Changu Narayan, and the Bhodnath stupa. The interweaving of Buddhist and Hindu elements is fascinating.

Fes likes in a shallow hollow, its core of ancient wooden structures threaded by dirt alleys, the chief mode of transport the donkey. I was told by a resident that those who had lived there all their lives wished to live nowhere else. Tucked away is the 9th century university of Al Karaouine (Al Qarawiyyn), still a center of Islamic studies, with the 14th century Al Attarine Medersa nearby still in use as a college dormitory. New buildings nibble at the edges of the historic core, and elegant boutiques for carpets and jewelry can be found if one knows where to look.

World Heritage sites in Oman: mud brick fortresses such as Bahla, pre-Islamic tombs and towns at Wadi el AIn, aflaj or irrigation system preservation, and frankincense trade routes, warehouses, and harbor archaeological areas at Al Baleed and Sumhuram.

The 'floating villages" of the Tonle Sap lake, mainly Vietnamese immigrants from after the war, present a way of life that seems natural to them if not to me.

Venice is a living urban center, in addition to being a World Heritage Site designated by UNESCO for preservation as a living museum too. During the winter there are fewer tourist crowds, so we encounter Venetians themselves going about their daily routines.

With a Vietnamese travel agency, I took a tour called "The Long Way Up" which meant travelling from Saigon to Hanoi with digressions along the way. The tour emphasized Vietnamese cultural sites, especially the ancient Champa sites along the way and H'mong villages in the north. The only war memorabilia we saw were the My Lai memorial and the memorial to the immolated monks at the Long Son Pagoda.

The "Spice Island" of Zanzibar, still quite poor after a period of war and rebellion, is trying to revive its spice farms. Buildings in Stonetown and elsewhere are remnants of the slave trade from East Africa. Hand carved wooden doors in traditional maritime style are both restored and replicated as they have become fashionable.