Sunset over Batumi and the Black Sea, Georgia

Sumela Monastery, near Trabzon, Turkey

Üç Kümbetler (Three Tombs) Erzurum, Turkey

European interlude from Across Asia: Rathaus, Vienna, Austria

European interlude from Across Asia: View towards Buda Castle, Hungary

European interlude from Across Asia: Chiemsee lake at sunset, Germany

European interlude to Across Asia: View from Zugspitze, the highest mountain in the Bavarian Alps.

The smoking crater of Gunung Merapi, almost a year after the large eruption in late 2010.

Fields of Talun, near Blitar.