[Travel Diaries from El Salvador | March 2019]
Author: hyvhuynh
This year’s lunar new year celebration was so nourishing and heartwarming, from the video conference with my cute parents and the giant 9-course Vietnamese dinner party, to the guided group meditation, photo-booth antics, and lunar new year themed team trivia (there was a very organized schedule, don’t worry).
A picturesque historical town set high in the Andes with 16th-century cobbled streets, terra cotta tiled roofs, whitewashed buildings, and the biggest and oldest plaza in Colombia.
Villa de Leyva, you’re a dream.
so happy to be back in this place of refuge //
three special days in one of my favorite places on earth //
by far the most inner peaceful and grounding old and new year celebration I’ve ever had //
wishing all of our loved ones that same inner peace and grounding this year. <3
And then there are days in SE Asia when you have to create a last minute youth development photography workshop on the fly.
(Here are some of the photos I took during our workshop.)
A few things about my most recent trip to Angkor Wat:
1. My tuk tuk driver got the memo that I’d rather be alone in Angkor Wat as much as possible and took me on a different route that would avoid most of the foot-traffic. For example, he brought me to Phnom Bakheng for sunrise (there was noone there) and got me to the Bayon first, and the silent and solo bliss is 100% the best way to experience the beauty and magic of Angkor Wat.
Finally back in my beloved Battambang
(this time for research and photography work),
and it’s just as beautiful and slow and charming as I remembered.
[Rollin’ deep with] friendship in the desert for both golden hour and l’heure bleue. (In better light, everything changes.)
[Travel Diaries from Joshua Tree National Park, California | October 2018]
One weekend in the Ethiopian countryside,
wandering around tabletop mountains following my favorite primates,
standing cliffside next to a waterfall that spilled into the Blue Nile River,
riding horseback into a crater lake that lives in the middle of an extinct volcano.
So many spaces that made me feel small, new, and insignificant
(and you know what, I was very okay with that.)
In early August, I traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for a work trip. Here’s what I saw during the week.
[Travel Diaries from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | August 2018]