• Adventure,  Travel

    Himalaya From Above | View From Seat 5F | Window Seat

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Himalaya From Above | Window Seat View I’ve mention in my previous post that, we already book our seats in advance, we choose window seat which is “F”, “A” seat is also a windows seat but for us coming from Malaysia, we know that The Himalaya will be on the right side of us, so we decided to get the “F” seat. When we check-in, we also mention to the person at the counter that we have already choose our seats, just to make sure that, nothing changes and everything is according to our plan. We are photographers, even though we are not “professional” but…

  • Adventure,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Once Upon a Time at Swayambhunath Stupa | Kathmandu Valley | Nepal

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Travel Photography | Swayambhunath Stupa | Monkey Temple | Kathmandu Valley | Nepal The Swayambhunath Stupa is one of the crowning glories of Kathmandu Valley architecture. The entire structure of the stupa is symbolic, the white dome represents the earth, while the 13-tiered, beehive like structure at the top symbolises the 13 stages that humans must passthrough to achieve nirvana. The site has two access points: a long stairway, claimed to have 365 steps, leading directly to the main platform of the temple, which is from the top of the hill to the east; and a car road around the hill from the south leading…

  • Adventure,  Life,  Travel

    Travel | It’s Not The Destination, It’s The Journey That Matter

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | My Shadows on The Way to Langtang From Kyanjin Gompa | Langtang National Park | Nepal | Himalaya “Life is a Journey, Not a Destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson –  The more I travel, the more I realise that, it is really not about the destination that matters the most but the journey itself. That’s why I choose to travel as a backpackers and not through any traveling agency, If I’m lost, let be, I like the hassle and I like the troubles doing my very own stuff and I almost fall off the cliff in the darkness on my way back to Potala Hotel…

  • Adventure,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Monk With Prayer Wheels | Kathmandu | Nepal

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Monk With Prayer Wheels | Kathmandu Nepal A monk and prayer wheels, a photograph taken at Boudhanath Stupa, Asia’s largest stupa. We visited this place just few minutes after we came back from Langtang, leave our backpacks to at hotel room, have some lunch and head to Boudhanath Stupa by taxi which cost us Rs300 for one way journey which took about 30 minutes to get here. Foreigners have to pay Rs150 for entry fees, and in term of photographic opportunity, it offers a lot, provided that you spent few hours here or take one whole day to visit this magnificent stupa. The photograph above were taken…

  • Adventure,  Travel

    Once Upon a Time in The Himalaya | Langtang National Park | Nepal

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | iPhoneography | Once Upon a Time in The Himalaya | Langtang National Park “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than…