Photography
Koyasan
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Koyasan

Koyasan or Mount Koya is the site of a large temple settlement near Osaka. One of the highlights is the Okuno-in, a wonderful, mysterious forest lined with giant cedar trees and over 200,000 tombstones and Buddhist memorials.
Naoshima
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Naoshima

Photography is not allowed at the various pavilions and museums at Naoshima. The island itself is quite nice as well though.
Banff National Park
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Banff National Park

Banff National Park has it all: mountains, forests, lakes, waterfalls, glaciers, grizzly bears and lots of visitors. Three days clearly wasn't enough.
Jasper National Park
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Jasper National Park

Jasper National Park is the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies. I had booked a full-day hike on the Athabasca Glacier. My hike to Mt Edith Cavell was cut short by an aggressive grizzly bear.
Stanley Glacier
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Stanley Glacier

The Stanley Glacier hike in Kootenay National Park is pretty awesome. It is sometimes referred to as the fire and ice trail, because it goes from burned forest to alpine meadow, to the receding Stanley Glacier.
Walcott Quarry
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Walcott Quarry

In 2017 another long-held dream came true when I had a chance to visit the Walcott Quarry, the most famous quarry of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.