camel

Sailing on an ancient junk boat in Vietnam, riding a rickshaw in Japan or seeing the pyramids on camels – there are thousands of odd and intriguing forms of transportation around the world. Here are some of the strangest:
1. Bamboo Train, Cambodia
Between Battambang and Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh,… Read the rest

By definition, the sublime is a greatness with which nothing else can be compared and which is beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation. It is the vast, the great, the terrible, the extreme, the very weird, and the oh-so-awesome.
Today, your weekly dose of the sublime comes in… Read the rest

The Aral Sea used to be the 4th largest inland sea in the world. It supported the livelihoods of many Kazakh and Uzbek villagers by providing water for farming and fishing. In the 1960′s two rivers that fed it were diverted by the Soviets to feed cotton fields. It has… Read the rest

We were so stoked to have James Michael Dorsey’s article Infidels in the Sahara… Read the rest in our summer issue, that we wanted to feature another one of his photos here on FP. Shot in the Sahara desert in Mali, this camel was part of a cravan hauling salt from the mines