Daniel Whitfield's wonderful travel photography
June 1, 2017 7:31 AM   Subscribe

It's time to hit the road! Feel like a quick #JuneJourney? Let's visit the travel albums of Dubai-based photographer Daniel Whitfield as he dives with whale sharks in Djibouti, pilots a Lada Niva through Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, and treks through Nepal. Where to begin? You've got a long voyage ahead of you - over 100 countries to visit in just one post! Pack your bags, because there’s so much

Looking for another side to places in headlines past and present?

How about Afghanistan or Somalia or Lebanon or Yemen or Iran or Northern Iraq? Or, in one of the oddest trip reports you will ever read, into wartime Syria.


Prefer to head deep into Central Asian mountain landscapes?

Pop over to Kyrgyzstan on a KAMAZ or go off-road through Kazakhstan.


Like your landscapes a bit flatter?

Cruise through the Ganges delta in Bangladesh or peer into the Darvaza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan.


Need a few more buildings, a bit more urban life after all that nice open space?

If you fancy your façades falling to bits, travel back in time to two weeks after the Shanghai 2010 Expo. Something more lively? Time for Havana. Or head to Prague, Paris, Mexico City, Copenhagen and Stockholm, New York City.


Or you're maybe thinking regionally, perhaps putting together a multi-week trip this summer?

Dive into eastern Europe, Turkey and the Caucasus.

Try Ukraine, Belarus and Russia or Bulgaria or Romania or Georgia or a weekend visiting Azerbaijani mud volcanoes. Or maybe just float in a balloon over Cappadocia.


Perhaps you're looking for an Asian city break?

Like Tokyo and Kyoto, or a snowy Seoul, or perhaps Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City or Siem Reap.


Or head into sub-saharan Africa.

Check out Kenya and Tanzania, or DR Congo and Rwanda, and skip between Chad, Cameroon (ever so slightly), Mauritania, Senegal, Morocco and Niger. Voyage through Nigeria, the Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia (in just 16 days!), experience Swaziland, Lesotho and South Africa, meet Eritrea, pop into Sudan, and slide down the sand dunes of Namibia (coming soon!).


Maybe you need a few more palm trees and beaches.

Perhaps the Maldives? Done (and on an actual island that real Maldivians actually live on). Or the Seychelles (coming soon!), Sri Lanka, Laos and Vietnam and Hong Kong, or maybe Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore (with an NZ family wedding thrown in!). Spend some time in Bangkok and northern Thailand. Or simply island-hop to Bali and Dili, East Timor.

(More of a dry-heat person? Perhaps Rome, Algeria, Tunisia, Malta and Cyprus) or Spain, Portugal and Morocco would be more appropriate.)


Or would you rather be a bit chillier?

Why not travel by train from Switzerland to Serbia via Austria, Hungary, Slovakia (just) and Liechtenstein in the middle of the winter, or a slightly less chilly summertime trip to Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia via Amsterdam and Helsinki or a not-that-chilly-but-not-roastingly hot early autumn trip to Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City and Niagara Falls. Or go all out in terms of coldness, generally, and camp on the ice sheet of Greenland before you scuba dive in frigid Icelandic waters (part 1) (part 2) (part 3). (Avoid the sun entirely while caving in Waitomo in New Zealand.)


Keen to check out Whitfield's Dubai-adjacent neighbourhood?

Learn about pehlwani wrestling in Dubai. Drive through the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, or see glimpses of Bahrain and Kuwait (and a bit more Qatar). Spend a weekend in Muscat, Oman, and don't miss Jordan and Israel.


No energy for a globetrekking trip today?

Do see Daniel's post on his camera, the Canon 5D MkIII, for a single photo from each of the 100 countries where he used it.
posted by mdonley (3 comments total) 15 users marked this as a favorite
 
This post is incredible and I'm so happy you made it! This will be a constant distraction for the next few days...
posted by quadrilaterals at 8:11 AM on June 1, 2017 [2 favorites]


Have only gone through a few of these so far but, wow, thanks for the post!
posted by LobsterMitten at 1:58 PM on June 1, 2017 [2 favorites]


This is amazing. Best of the web right here. I needed something beautiful & inspiring today and this fits the bill!

Reading the Mexico City post now - he's not even there yet and I am already enthralled!
posted by pointystick at 3:34 PM on June 1, 2017 [2 favorites]


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