Water and the water ways of Inle Lake
It’s not profound to note that communities develop around water, as a requisite of human life and a source of livelihood. Appropriately, we’ve spent a lot of our trip to SE Asia on the water,…
Cheroot, Cheroot, yaddada daddada daddada daddada
The favorite smoke on the streets of Myanmar is what they call a cheroot. It's a small handwrapped hybrid of a filter cigarette and a cigar, costs about ten cents at almost any food stall,…
Heaven sent: the frescoes of Bagan (updated)
For over three hundred years, roughly from the 9th to the 13th century, the kings and the court based in Bagan turned their power, wealth and spiritual dedication into monuments of brick and stone. Over…
Miracles and wonders in Mandalay
Mandalay was made famous in the West by a Kipling poem and the song made from it. On the road to Mandalay, Where the flying fishes play, And the dawn comes up like thunder Outta…
First impressions from Myanmar – revealing the city of Yangon
We really didn’t know what to expect in Yangon and Myanmar. With the American embargo here, and little information, plus the insistence by our travel agent on booking us into deluxe hotels and pre-set meals,…
UNESCO’s legacy and Ha Long Bay
Our final night in Vietnam we spent on a private, poshly-fitted boat in the vast Ha Long Bay, one of the many UNESCO World Heritage Sites we have visited on this trip. Here, amidst more…
Slowing down in the Vietnam countryside
We have often found that decelerating on a trip proves the best way to know a country, and not just its sites. When we planned our SE Asia trip, we built in slowdown time...river trips,…
A birthday celebration, Vietnamese style
You first havc to know that Vietnamese don’t traditionally celebrate birthdays. According to their Buddhist tradition, being born means you have not yet achieved nirvana and escaped worldly pain and suffering. By contrast, a death…
Chúc Mung Giáng Sinh!
In other words, Merry Christmas from Vietnam! And from the North and South Poles combined... We'll be off the grid for a few days, including Christmas Eve in a tribal village and Christmas Day in…
Hanoi: on to the future, while honoring the past
In Ho Chi Minh City (or Saigon), you see and hear a lot about the new capitalism and the future. In Hanoi, the seat of the communist government, you see and hear a lot about Ho…
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