I created this personal website in 2003 for the purpose of sharing photos and other information with family and friends, but if you have stumbled across it by accident and share any of my interests - travel photography, world music, hot-air ballooning, tropical gardening and conservation of the environment - you are welcome to browse and leave comments in my guestbook.
Most of the photo albums on this site are personal photos, ballooning photos or my older travel photos. My newer photo albums are at:
http://www.pbase.com/banyanman
I also regularly post a selection of my best travel photos to Trek Earth at:
http://www.trekearth.com/members/banyanman/photos
The slideshow below features my 50 favourite travel photos from my Trek Earth gallery.
Although this is a personal website, several pages receive a surprisingly high number of hits each month - especially my detached retina story (I guess there must be a lot of people looking for information on this using search engines) and the Malaysian Road Rules page.
Since September 2007, I have moved my blog to Blogger.com in order to be part of a wider blogging community. The link is:
http://banyanman.blogspot.comMy older blogs are still archived on this site and can be accessed through the navigation bar on the left.
(The picture of me at the top was taken by my daughter, Karin, at Bagan, Myanmar – where there are over 2,000 temples dating back to the 9th century, spread across a plain as far as the eye can see. It’s one of the most amazing places that I have visited in the world, and fortunately is not over-run with tourists – at least not yet – because of its relative isolation. The reason I have bare feet is that these are Buddhist temples, where it is required that you remove shoes when visiting)