... and if you go off season, not terribly crowded. Joshua Tree is near Palm Springs, California. Do your partying there but breathe in the nature at Joshua Tree. Here is a slide show. Kerala, India Cochin, ...

My first impression of India was high culture plus high chaos. But then I hadn't been to Kerala, a multicultural waterworld in India's southwest that manages to be quite sustainable thanks in part ...

ygwH35BpO9Q My first impression of India was high culture plus high chaos.  But then I hadn't been to Kerala, a multicultural waterworld in India's southwest. Last October Mandip Singh Soin, ...

  These types of fishing nets can only be found in China and at Ft. Cochin, in the southern part of India.  

I grabbed a shot of these two publicity-savvy cormorants a few weeks ago on a boat trip in the Periyar Tiger Preserve, in Southern India. Story and video to come.