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The Tranquility of Alchi Monastery: A High-Altitude Photography GuidePerched on the banks of the Indus in the Ladakhi desert, the Alchi Monastery complex sits at roughly 3,200 metres above sea level. For Australian travellers…How Angkor's Ancient Water Systems Shaped Temple DesignStretching across the floodplains of northwest Cambodia, the temples of Angkor were never just stone monuments raised in honour of devaraja and the…The wooden carvings of Kinkaku-ji: a Zen experienceKinkaku-ji, Kyoto’s celebrated Golden Pavilion, is often remembered for its brilliant exterior: three storeys of timber architecture covered in gold leaf,…Catching the golden hour at the Potala PalaceThe Potala Palace rises from the Marpo Ri hill in central Lhasa like a slab of carved sunset frozen in stone, and most photographers who arrive there never…Bangkok's Sacred Skyline: Where Ancient Temples Meet the Modern MetropolisBangkok rarely lets visitors forget that it is one of Asia's most photographed capitals. Glittering high-rises crowd the bends of the Chao Phraya, and glass…Golden light through stone: the Byzantine mosaics of IstanbulStepping into a Byzantine church in Istanbul for the first time can feel like walking into a sunlit pool of glass and stone. Even after years of seeing…The mystery of the Easter Island moai: a photographic expeditionTwo and a half thousand nautical miles west of the Chilean coast, set adrift in the South Pacific like a stray punctuation mark on a map, Easter Island holds…Photographing Sapa’s Temples in the CloudsSapa sits in Vietnam’s northern highlands, where steep rice terraces, forested ridges and changing mountain weather create an unusually atmospheric setting for…The Perfect Time of Day to Shoot the Ruins of Chichen ItzaChichen Itza rewards photographers who plan around light, heat and movement rather than simply arriving with a wide-angle lens. The Maya archaeological site in…The Narrative Carvings Of Borobudur: A Story In StoneAt first glance, Borobudur can appear to be a vast geometric monument: terraces rising above the Central Javanese landscape, bell-shaped stupas arranged in…