We first saw these balloons last year during our visit in Chiang Mai. If you’re interested, this blog had photos with literally thousands of hot air balloons being sent off during a festival. The photos are night photos–the balloon is fun during the sunset, but it’s absolutely magical at night.
To put it simply, Laos was amazing. While it doesn’t have the bustle of many neighboring countries, it also doesn’t have the hustle. Here’s a smattering of our memories of Laos now that I finally have the internet to upload the backlog of photos: If you want to see more, there’s probably several hundred photos [...]
Just a selection of photos taken off a speeding boat (in most cases), sorry about the blur =P As always, more photos at http://www.flickr.com/himene/ just navigate by sets since I’ve been uploading a huge backlog of Laos photos and the photostream isn’t in chronological order (or any order).
Hey foodies! This post and photos are for you! In Luang Prabang, we decided to check out the cooking class by Tamarind (a restaurant) which was highly regarded (and turned out to be good). The class started out with a market tour led by our Lao teacher, Jack. He pointed out various herbs, meats, and [...]
We went trekking yesterday through Luang Prabang province, here is a bunch of photos…and text. For the first part of our trek, we went to an elephant park that uses tourism dollars to try and save elephants from a hard life of logging (which I saw in Cambodia) or being poached. Letting humans ride on [...]
We’ve had to unfortunately cut our trip to Vietnam short by about two weeks. We’ll be traveling to Laos tomorrow, so before I quite possibly have no internet connection for a month I thought I’d upload some photos. If you wanna see more, check out http://www.flickr.com/himene/
I almost lost it today. The traffic here is terrifying. Very few streets have lights, let alone a pedestrian signal. Most people just step out into traffic and trust that the thousands of motorbikes will zoom past them safely. Between the stress of all the horns blaring at me and staring down buses I felt [...]
It’s been a pretty typhoonrific (new word) season in Asia and while we managed to dodge one typhoon, the tail end of another one has come to put a bit of a damper on our trip in Hong Kong. Hopefully the rain stops so we can see more stuff, but so far we’ve wandered nightmarkets, [...]
They say when Marco Polo visited Hangzhou in the 13th century, he declared it one of the greatest cities in the world. I’m not sure if that still rings true, but it is a spectacularly beautiful city. The weather finally cooperated (well, except for the 30 minutes it downpoured) and Hugh and I took to [...]
I think it’s pretty fair to say that business in China is not generally described as “efficient, forthright, honest.” I’ve heard some interesting stories from Chinese friends or people who work in China, and while it’s not every experience, it isn’t uncommon to find yourself in a situation where a Westerner throws up their hands [...]
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