Adam Skolnick

Posting from Kupang, West Timor. This shot was taken in Temkessi, an indigenous village high in the mountains. Something about her is haunting in the most beautiful way. West Timor is a mind bender.

After some epic and challenging dives in West Papua’s spectacular Raja Ampat Islands, we motored through the spidery mangroves to Pulau Batanta where we wandered a couple miles up a cascading river to this 150m high waterfall.

On a somewhat stylish visit to Indonesia’s Komodo National Park, Adam Skolnick comes face to face with dragons and lives to tell the tale.   On a sweltering morning Condo Subagyo, 46, and I hack through thick brush to reach a red clay trail. We follow it as it winds beneath huge tamarind trees dangling [...]

Diego Arrarte hangs up his cell and accelerates his moderately dented late-model Toyota pick-up past hip-high stone fencing, and thatched lontar-palm shacks as we speed down the white earth roads of Nembrala Town – the tourist epicenter of little-known Rote island. Seems his guest, a hilarious, middle-aged Argentinean surfer, misjudged the road to Bo’a beach. [...]

The Overture At the remote 13th century Phajo Ding monastery, set high on a Himalayan ridge, Kencho Doji, a smiling 23 year old monk swathed in burgundy robes, holds a piece of a man’s skull. Not just any man’s. This skull fragment belongs to an enlightened Rinpoche, a Tantric master and the founder of this very [...]

It was a near-perfect afternoon on Thailand’s Northern Andaman coast, and Khao Lak’s horseshoe bay had revealed itself. Resort rooftops peeked out from the coconut palms, tourists lounged on golden sand, and the turquoise sea gently licked the shore in overlapping ovals. A minute later we rolled into town, which is essentially one main drag. Tourists [...]