Mike Kai Photo

Suddenly, the mountain peaks erupt in flames as if the heavens cracked open spewing clouds of smoke and fire. Terrified little earthlings decipher the beautiful phenomenon as a war of the Gods - that or a wild heaven party.

Say hi to mr kitty! - My favorite little girl and her fat cat, the perfect adventure companions.

What’s it like in America? - Students curiously converse with a foreign visitor for the first time during English class at a small school in the west African coastal city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania.

Legendary Lada Breakdown No. 29: We must stop every 20 minutes to let our Lada cool down and more importantly take in the journey through the Pamirs. Taking turns re-soaking our makeshift t-shirt heatsink some ingenious locals wrapped around our overheating fuel pump, there's actually more water than spare gas in our trunk.

After getting rained in and forced to spend the night with locals in the Karakol mountains, the storm finally lifts at dawn - we make a break for it. Issyk-kul mountains, Kyrgyzstan.