Jarle Presttun - Photo gallery

Gallery

Info

Links

	2007 Turkmenistan and Iran Once again I went back to this region. This time with my friend Christian. We had a great trip! Turkmenistan, with a great mix of madness, history and nature, and Iran, with proud history, a fascinating society and probably the friendliest people in the world (as I also noticed in 2005). > enter gallery
	2006 Central Asia One of the reasons I went to Central Asia is because my friend and colleague Naimdjon is from Tajikistan. He arranged for me to stay with his family in Khujand. His brother Nasimdjon with his friend Samandar travelled with me all the way through Tajikistan to the Uzbekistan border. Everybody was really friendly to me in Tajikistan. It must be their Persian roots... Uzbekistan was more about the architecture and history, as I visited the magnificent Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, along with the walled slave caravan city of Khiva. > enter gallery
	2005 Iran My second trip to the Middle East was done with my friend Rune. The visit here was fantastic. Many lovely cities, spectacular landscape, all kinds of climate, impressing historical sites, water pipe ... what more can you ask? Well, a cold beer wouldn't hurt. Also, the Iranians are probably the friendliest people on earth. > enter gallery
	2005 Syria, Jordan and Lebanon This is my first trip to the Middle East, but I will definitely return. The region is the cradle of civilization and it has lovely cities, landscape and people. Syria is probably the friendliest country I have ever been to. Baalbek, Palmyra and Petra are all in the Top 10 of my visited archaeological sites. > enter gallery
	2004 Zambia I went to Zambia with my friend Morten. This was the first time in Africa for both of us, and it was quite an experience. We saw the big five (Lion, Leopard, Buffalo, Elephant and Rhino), Victoria Falls, the market in Lusaka and Lake Malawi. All of this in just three weeks. > enter gallery
	2004 Gaustatoppen, Norway Tony, who I met in Peru, came to Oslo in May with his friends Jürgen and Vicki. They wanted to see some of Norways famed mountain landscape. We rented a car in Oslo and took a day trip to Gaustatoppen, 1883 meters above sea level. This May day was just perfect weatherwise. > enter gallery
	2003 South America I started in Buenos Aires with a Spanish course and ended up in Lima 9 weeks later. There were some problems with violent demonstrations in Bolivia when I got to Argentina. Lots of nations were evacuating their citizens. When I got up to the border area, things had been quiet for a few days, but I decided to skip Bolivia just in case. But, because I wasn't able to get a bus ticket from Salta (Argentina) to San Pedro (Chile), I ended up doing about a month in Bolivia. It turned out to be the most spectacular in my life. What a country.... > enter gallery
	2003 Italy This trip was 12 day trip. I spent about a week in Rome, 4 days in Atriani and a night in Naples. Lots of good food, nice people, archeology and nature. > enter gallery
	2002 China The first half of this trip was done with my friend Rune. We started in Beijing and I travelled back home from Hong Kong. Beijing was really great. But it also was polluted and very hot. Yunnan was my favorite. Lovely climate and spectacular scenery. The lower southern part was also great, but I visited at the wrong part of the year, as it was hot and humid. > enter gallery
	2001 New York City I visited New York with my father just above a month before 9/11. We also went on top of WTC. Superb city. It has everything. The bustle and traffic of the great avenues and the tranquility of Greenwich village and the parks. Concerts and theatres. De La Guarda and the concert with Oscar Peterson at Blue Note is probably the cultural highlights. > enter gallery