7 Tips for a Perfect Babymoon
Planning a getaway before the baby comes? Certain destinations might be safe for a normal, healthy couple – but what sorts of things should you pay attention or should you consider when your partner is a mom-to-be? Planning travel with a pregnant wife has its own sets of challenges – especially when the experience is supposed to be special. Babymoons, or a honeymoon before the baby comes, are an inceasingly popular travel theme with future parents. Having researched and planned two of these before we welcome the arrival of the Little Lop, I’ve put together suggestions...
Read MoreMy Favorite Instagrams from my 2012 Travels
What a year it was. 2012 Had me on 78 planes, in 7 countries, adjusting to countless timezones, and recharging my iPhone on a relatively unlimited schedule. While I am still madly in love with my Canon 7d, my passion for Instagram exploded this year, driving me to take some 600 photos this year alone. The following are my favorite shots from 2012. I’m sure I’m missing some, but for now, these beauties will do. Check out my Instagram Profile here. Happy 2013 everyone! The Blue Mosque. This is...
Read MoreVideo – Incredible Istanbul: Three Perfect Days
This enormous city is a blend of Europe and Asia in the best possible way. Istanbul is one of the world’s oldest cities – but with its surreal landscape, delicious food, notoriously fun nightlife and vibrant culture attracting all sorts of visitors, the best is yet to come. This is a visual experience of my time with my wife while in Istanbul – one of our last international trips before we have a baby. My advice: put on a paid of headphones and open the video up full screen to enjoy. Incredible Istanbul: Three Perfect Days from Alex Lop on Vimeo. It’s a brisk winter day in Istanbul....
Read More9 Days in China: Kaleidoscopic Wonder
Perspective. You gain it when you enter the courtyards of the Forbidden City. You learn it when you exchange a smile with a stranger. You taste it with the first savor of hot-pot broth. And you breath it when you stand on the peaks of the Great Wall, with the rest of the world at your feet. China is a place of perspective. It’s lands and people are vastly different from one corner to another – each with unique, colorful and rich cultural nuances that distinguish them in an ever-shifting dance of landscapes. Each encounter here, no matter how brief or how feint, stain memories...
Read MoreCapture: Climbing the Great Wall of China
The heat of the midday sun soaked my shirt in sweat as I climbed each steep step up the winding stone path before me. Juyongguan. Thirty miles outside of central Beijing, but centuries apart. I was initially surrounded by scores of other tourists, but not up here. The stones of the snaking wall were worn with the footsteps of millions before me, but here I was, experiencing the Great Wall of China for my first time. Staring at steps and carefully climbing was exhausting on the eyes. I stopped to take in the view. The breeze cooled my overheated forehead. Jade fauna covered the...
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