Over the last year and a half, we have explored some of the regions best natural attractions including national parks, reserves, and remote wilderness regions. The explorations have been made on foot as well as by jeep, canoe, kayak, camel and elephant.

To recall our adventures, we have put together a pictorial, a sort of photographic trophy wall to share a tiny bit of the regions diversity with you. All of the animals included were photographed by us in the wild. Since we do not have a 600 mm lens and a fifty pound tripod, that is much more challenging than it sounds. While the big game may seem the most impressive, one shot in particular should be considered our ultimate trophy, the photo of the two camouflaged nightjars. Believe it or not, they were actually spotted by our guide from a moving jeep!

Seeing Kangchendzonga is also a milestone for Thomas and me. This means we have seen 8 of the top ten highest mountains in the world. The remaining two mountains, K2 and Nanga Parbat, are both located in northwest Pakistan, and we obviously won’t be heading there right now.

To celebrate the eight, we have put together our own pictorial list of the world’s ten highest mountains, respectfully leaving blank spaces for K2 and Nanga Parbat. We’ll get to Pakistan some day!

Where did you go on your honeymoon? When Jeff and Jennifer are asked that question in the future, they are going to have one hell of an impressive answer. “Oh, we went to Fiji… and New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Bhutan, Myanmar, Vietnam, Nepal, India, Austria, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, France, Spain, Brazil, and Argentina.

Yep, that’s right, a 13-month, 26 country extravaganza to celebrate their nuptials. Yikes, that puts pretty much everyone to shame! They have so many stops on their around the world ticket, they couldn’t use an e-ticket because the computer program can’t handle that many destinations for the same trip! Their paper ticket looks like a small phone book!

When we met them half way through their adventure, they were planning a mid-summer trek in the Annapurnas. Not your typical Honeymoon activity, but very cool and challenging with the monsoons.

Of course, I asked them about their decision to pack 26 countries into a 13-month period. They responded that they wanted to start a family when they get back to their home city of San Francisco, so it’s pretty much now or never. They sat down and created the ultimate what-I-want-to-see list and went for it.

Clearly, the marriage is destined for success. When asked about the highlights of the trip, they both immediately thought of Inlay Lake in Myanmar. Interestingly, they visited Myanmar a mere three weeks after the cyclone that devastated the Irrawaddy delta (another wow-inspiring piece of honeymoon trivia.) The cyclone had little effect on traveling in the country, but they clearly couldn’t visit the delta.

Around the world in 13 months – now that’s the way to celebrate a marriage. (And if you make it through 13 months in the same hotel room, you can make it through anything.) Good luck you guys, keep in touch and let us know how the wedding adventure turns out.

To find out more about Jennifer and Jeff, visit their travel blog.

Well, during the past year, we’ve ended up spending quite a bit of time in Kathmandu (about two months to be precise). Whether it has been to take care of bureaucratic processes or rest up after long treks, we’ve come to feel quite at home in the city. Yes, it’s polluted and chaotic and many people hate it, but I would go so far as to say it is one of my favorite cities in the world. Layers upon layers of culture lodged between the crumbling brick buildings. So isn’t it about time that we put together a pictorial on the city? Absolutely! Click here to view the pictorial.

Grand pronouncements were made by their supreme leader. The army clapped in wide-eyed jubilation. The females squealed and bounced in titillation at their leader’s perfection. Euphoria.

Hotel guests retreated to their rooms and watched in horror as the musical Koreans from hell gathered in formation in the hotel courtyard. They burst yet again into song, and sang and sang and sang late into the wee hours of the mourning. A concert of Korean pride forced on the unsuspecting neighborhood.

But the troop’s musical movements had just begun. Gathering at sunrise, hotel guests were awoken by the sounds of robotic clapping and manic laughter followed by a nationalist opera set to the rhythms of the streets of Kathmandu.

Singing at night, singing at dawn, the invasion lasted for days, eventually driving sleep-deprived guests from the hotel. And with all the nationalistic euphoria, there was no flip-card show that North Koreans might have provided as some slight compensation for the suffering they caused.

Yes, the hotel emptied quickly, but they couldn’t drive Tony and Thomas from their citadel featuring cable television (with BBC and CNN), boiling hot showers, and a beautiful sun-filled balcony. Nope, they couldn’t drive us out.