An image of the rare and beautiful Sifika lemur, a mammal only found on the island of Madagascar. I captured this image at a rehabilitation centre a few hours drive east of Antananarivo.
Whilst walking through the small village inside Andringitra National Park, I noticed this skull perched upon a rock. The crescent shape of the horns caught my eye.
An image I captured during an early morning walk through the market place at Fianarantsoa, in the highlands of South Central Madagascar. A beautiful part of the world indeed.
Every traveler has their own personal horro stories of long distance bus journeys that seem to go on for ever. Liza and I had to endure 47 hours of mind numbing torture in Africa, back in 2001.
Whilst trekking around outskirts of the villages of Andringitra national park, I ran into this young fella carrying fire wood back to his home. After the drama’s of the last couple of days, a smile like this put life back into perspective.
A little of the many well worn tourist trails is the soulful capital of Madagascar. Antananarivo, it’s a mouthful, but I loved the place.
The tree climbing Lions of Tanzania’s Lake Manyara National Park are quite a site. These magnificent creatures will rarely climb tree’s elsewhere, but at Lake Manyara it was quite common.
A colorful image of a shopkeeper relaxing next to her display of bananas, captured in the small village of Ranomafana in central Madagascar.
A short tale on the night I delivered a minibus taxi, through the mean streets of Johannesburg during the South African Taxi Wars of the 1990′s
A young boy in the southern region of Madagascar, heads off to work with his father in the fields. A boy in a mans shoes.
Ask many people if they would like to travel to Africa, and almost everyone would say yes. The problem is that seldom few ever do. Why is Africa the forgotten continent?
Morocco is a fascinating destination, but the street hawkers and touts can really be a big problem. They near on ruined my trip to the country in 1994. I wonder if things have improved?
The MV Liemba has been cruising the shores of Lake Tanganyika for close to a century. She still runs to this day, and a journey aboard her is a fascinating voyage.
Whilst trying to photograph this group of women sewing the rice paddies and terraces, one of them caught me. So I began to laugh and smile, as it turned out, it was infectious and pretty soon the whole group were laughing.
Madagascars Tsaranoro Massif is a sheer vertical rock face that stands over half a kilometer high. It’s world renowned for both rock climbing and base jumping, and the area is an adventure playground, with bush walks and hikes for all levels.
A tale of 24hrs of complete madness that took place in Southern Madagascar in 2010. We survived bush fires and a car crash all in a space of one day.
A travel tale from 1994, where I was lured into the ring, in Marrakesh’s Djemaa el Fna Square, to fight a Moroccan boxer after not paying for taking photographs earlier in the day.
Jason has traveled the world extensively during the last 20 years, with overland journeys on six continents and across over 90 countries.
This site serves as a chronicle of the images and tales from these journeys, as well as offering advice and general information for other like minded travelers.(Or the armchair traveler, if your that way inclined. We don't discriminate here.)
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An image captured during my Trans SIberian train journey of a couple of years ago. Whist the train was stationary at the Krasnoyarsk station, I spotted this guard patrolling the area.
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