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PHOTOS – Southeast Asia Part 9

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Photos taken in Hanoi, Halong Bay, Vietnam, and Alaska, USA

Photo captions below, by number:

(1) A fruit peddler of the portable nature.

(2) The view after emerging from a couple of very large caves.

(3) Boating off into the sunset.

(4) Dusk.

(5) Not a bad sight to wake up to.

(6) Traffic in Hanoi. And you thought Jersey drivers were bad…

(7) Maybe this is why I now crave fresh vegetables.

(8) “The Smoking Minister” … actually, he’s not a minister at all, but that’s my title for this photo, and I’m sticking with it.

(9) What the eep is this, you ask? G???c. What is that? A cucumber-related fruit. I have no idea what it tastes like. Never got the chance. Next time?

(10) Inside a giant cave…terrible photo, but you can see the scale by identifying tiny people at the bottom of the light hole. No, they’re not midgets.

(11) Now THAT is a real houseboat.

(12) My friend G-dogg pointed out that my hair happens to follow the curves of the mountain in back. I didn’t even notice until she told me!

(13) Regulations have asked that I not post the actual photo. Available upon private request.

(14) I’m on the plane going home…no more rice! But wait, you haven’t yet seen the riceburger. Asia’s version of the KFC Double Down. The rice IS the bun. As for the inside, I’ll let your imagination run wild.

(15) Hmmm….do I want reindeer over noodles or in a bun? Decisions, decisions. Nothing like a li’l local food in Alaska!

(16) Sunrise over Alaska.

(17) I flew over a blue glacier and then saw this beautiful site on the way home.

PHOTOS – Southeast Asia Part 8

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Taken in central Vietnam.

Photo captions below, by number:

(1) A farmer in the rice fields. Those are caskets buried in the fields. The Vietnamese believe that one’s body belongs in the fields one worked, so they bury their dead right there.

(2) A beautiful part of the countryside.

(3) A more realistic view of the countryside.

(4) A girl and her dog.

(5) I never thought Vietnam would look like this.

(6) Such a unique landscape! You had to be there with the storm rolling in and the waves crashing further up the coast.

(7) I hereby title this one, “Man with Water Buffalo.” Not original, I know, but I love the water buffalo’s expression.

(8) I don’t think the buildings were made for people my size…

(9) This was a hidden village I biked past. It appeared out of nowhere in the valley. It seriously reminds me of Capri, Italy.

(10) It was a weird day, but I didn’t complain. I ended up getting a private bike tour…

(11) …but then my guide (on a moto, not a bike), whizzed way ahead and I was all alone. Awesome.

(12) This was what I biked around.

(13) I was looking up beautiful places and found this place, but once I decided to go I found out it was a big tourism spot. I went anyway, and was actually pretty happy. Even due to the fact that I had to jump on the back of a random businessman’s moto and ride for 30 minutes to catch up with the bus that forgot me.

(14) Coming out of the first grotto on the boat trip.

(15) Catching dinner.

(16) Little Boater, Big Cliff.

(17) If these faces don’t say, “We’re having the time of our lives!” then I’m afraid I just don’t know how else their joy could be expressed.

(18) The end of the boat ride. Rather than letting everyone out in the middle of the brush/mountains, they turn back and harass you so you’ll buy the food and table runners they’re selling. Because when I’m out in scenery like this, all I can think of is what I’ll serve the guests dinner on when I get back home.

(19) I just clicked to highlight a bit of the already black-and-white photo, and it came out looking like a bunch of cartoon cowboys rowing towards a completely different Asian picture. I like it though!

(20) A husband and wife catching a meal.

PHOTOS – Southeast Asia Part 7

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Taken in Can Tho, Cu Chi, and Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Photo captions below, by number:

(1) If you know what any of these mean, I’ll give you a prize.

(2) Breakfast. The first of many, many boat pictures. It’s about 5:30AM at this point.

(3) Get used to the hotpants. You’re going to see a lot of them.

(4) A typical boater.

(5) Life living on a boat.

(6) Woman vs. boat. I think she’s going to lose. And it’s going to hurt.

(7) Sunrise.

(8) In the middle of a floating market with no tourists around. Glorious.

(9) A young fruit seller.

(10) It almost looks like they posed.

(11) My boater gave me a snake. Not to keep.

(12) A guy just relaxing in his boat. I used sepia because I was bored.

(13) How to get to school.

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(15) Yum. Also, costs less than your coffee.

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(17) I’m a millionaire!

(18) 1,000,000 Vietnamese Dong is not much money.

(19) One of the Cu Chi tunnels. See the foot to the left for a size reference. Three different grown men were able to fit into it. I was not.

(20) A drink from the streets of Ho Chi Minh.

(21) My boater made this out of a palm frond.

 

 

PHOTOS – Southeast Asia Part 6

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Taken in Ratanakiri Province and Siem Reap, Cambodia

Photo captions below, by number:

(1) A worker in the mining fields. Also, um…one of my favorites.

(2) “You go down in the hole now.” Yeah, one of the guys invited me to go 120 feet down (no harness) into this hole to bring up buckets of dirt. I politely declined.

(3) Raw gems I found while mining! This is after I showered, of course, and got the orange dirt off of me.

(4) Amazing root.

(5) I always wanted to walk behind a waterfall.

(6) From behind the waterfall.

(7) Hidden statue ruins.

(8) Another cool tree root.

(9) …and another.

(10) Next time you think of complaining about how small your apartment is…

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(13) Kids in a minority village.

(14) My jungle guide/ranger/former soldier of the Khmer Rouge.

(15) The traditional high houses for the unwed. There’s no way to stand up in these things, they’re so small.

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(17) I enjoyed the lake, but…

(18) …the changing rooms didn’t quite cover necessary parts of the body.

(19) In another minority village where we showered under a bamboo waterfall.

(20) A worker in the mining fields. Also, um…one of my favorites.

(21) “You go down in the hole now.” Yeah, one of the guys invited me to go 120 feet down (no harness) into this hole to bring up buckets of dirt. I politely declined.