Hofkirche, Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Bastei, Saxon Switzerland, Saxony, Germany

Fürstenzug, Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Near California State Route 46, California, USA

Near Generals Highway, California, USA

Near Generals Highway, California, USA, a bit further down the road.

Parish Church in Poznan, Poland

It has been a while since I blogged photos of my various travels, although I have visited quite a number of countries in the past 12 months, and travelled overland in a number of them. Here are a few selected shots from three: India (November/December), Thailand (January), Japan (June).

These pictures are from Kyoto, Nara and Takayama in Honshu, Japan.

All this is Bangkok, Thailand. Particular interest deserve the gold-based patterns used widely to adorn Thai architecture:

And finally India (one picture NSFW!):

This is Mumbai, Ellora, Ajanta, Aurangabad (in Maharashtra); Mandu, Sanchi, Gwalior, Khajuraho (Madhya Pradesh); Orchha, Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh); Bangalore, Mysore (Karnataka).

Chorin Abbey Church, Brandenburg, Germany. Yes, indeed, that's a crane.

As a followup to this blog story here are a couple of non-panorama shots from the trip:

After BOSSA in Manaus/Brazil we took a very enjoyable boat trip down the Amazon, to Santarém and particularly Alter do Chão, a ridiculously amazing island paradise with glaring white sand in the middle of the jungle:

The town is located on the Tapajós River:

Up the river you find the Tapajós National Forest:

From there we went on to São Luís, a beautiful old colonial town:

A windy and wet sailing catamaran ride from São Luís you find Alcântara, another old colonial town, now partly in ruins and deserted:

Horizontal panoramas are so 2009 -- which is why I now give you the vertical panorama:

Now if I wasn't too stupid to hold my camera steady shooting upwards, this could actually have been a really good picture.

Here's the seventh and final part of my ongoing series.

One of the grandest sights in Delhi is Humayun's tomb, a predecessor of the greatest mausoleum of them all, the Taj Mahal:

A little bit further down a view on the garden:

From a different corner:

We'll finish with our last panorama that shows the courtyard the Jama Masjid of Old Delhi:

That's all panoramas from this trip. Thanks for your interest.

Here's the sixth part of my ongoing series.

Leaving Jodhpur we continued our journey to Jaisalmer, a sand castle of a town in the Thar desert:

In the vicinity of Jaisalmer you'll find cliche sand dunes like you'd expect from a grown-up desert:

Our next station after a long, cold and dusty train ride was Delhi. The principal mosque of Old Delhi is the Jama Masjid:

That's all for now, tomorrow I'll post the rest of my panoramas from this trip, all from Delhi.

Here's the fourth part of my ongoing series.

After Udaipur the next stop on our trip was Jodhpur, the blue city. Which is called that way due of the blue colour of many of its houses:

On a hill next to Mehrangarh Fort, one of the biggest Forts in India (the big sand castle on the hill in the panorama above), you find the Jaswant Thada, a memorial of the Maharajas of Jodhpur:

Inside the fort you'll find highly decorated courtyards:

That's all for Jodhpur, tomorrow I'll post more panoramas, from other stops of our trip.

Here's the fourth part of my ongoing series.

After Hampi we went to Bangalore to attend foss.in. (Fantastic conference, btw. The concerts at the venue are unparalleled.) From there we flew up to Udaipur, in Rajasthan. Udaipur is (among other things) famous for being the place where the central scenes of Octopussy were filmed. Octopussy's famous white palace is on Jagniwas Island in Lake Pichola:

This panorama was taken from another island in the lake, Jagmandir Island, which is visible in the following shot on the left:

Udaipur's scenery, seen from the Maharaja's City Palace down onto Pichola Lake:

That's all for Udaipur, tomorrow I'll post more panoramas, from other stops of our trip.