| | | |
|
|
|
|
|
Andrew, our tour leader, wearing very cool and very comfy-looking pants. Viewed: 271 times.
|
Umesh listening to London's latest MP3s Viewed: 267 times.
|
Jackie checking out her guidebook Viewed: 253 times.
|
Doug enjoying local produce. Our lunch, water and fruit is behind him. Viewed: 247 times.
|
| | | |
| | | |
|
|
|
|
|
A member of the boat crew helps Jackie along the high-tech gangway. Sing Thong, our Lao guide, stands waiting. Viewed: 250 times.
|
Christie contemplates the universe. Viewed: 259 times.
|
Callum, reading one of the ton of books he brought along. Viewed: 261 times.
|
Umesh borrowing Sing Thong's most valuable possession, a tour guide ID. Viewed: 245 times.
|
| | | |
| | | |
|
|
|
|
|
Christie preferred local food for lunch. Most of the others ordered baguette sandwiches, having an aversion to cold rice. Viewed: 249 times.
|
Alana also preferred local food, and hunted down the "pintos" and chopsticks. Chiang Khong had a kitchenware store with many sizes of these lunch containers (also used in India where they are known as tiffins).
Alana told the story of her Tshirt (Tooker Gomberg for Mayor of Toronto, with a vine growing up the CN Tower) which Umesh summarized as "Vote for a dead guy". Viewed: 282 times.
|
A cargo boat, not our boat. Viewed: 255 times.
|
|
| | | |
| | | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In dry season, the Mekong is so low, trucks can drive along the riverside. Viewed: 278 times.
|
Look closely: three trucks heading for a loading dock. Viewed: 254 times.
|
|
| | | |
| | | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fish drying at a riverside village. We bought imported items instead. Viewed: 264 times.
|
|
|
| | | |
| | | |
|
|
|
|
|
Alana takes photos of really weird shit. Specifically, weirdly large worm shit. Viewed: 265 times.
|
Ah, civilization. Viewed: 270 times.
|
Bamboo strips drying, I believe. Viewed: 264 times.
|
One of the village pigs wandered down to the beach. Viewed: 270 times.
|
| | | |
| | | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
An elephant, taking a break from doing something useful. Viewed: 256 times.
|
| | | |
| | | |
|
|
|
|
|
Many rock outcroppings were topped with a concrete monument, to aid navigation when the water is higher. Viewed: 279 times.
|
Yes there is a line of markers strung across the river, from the Thai to the Lao side. Viewed: 247 times.
|
|
|
| | | |
| | | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The rock along the Mekong appears to be sedimentary. It breaks apart like slate, with a blue-purple tinge between the layers. But the layers are often vertical or nearly so. Viewed: 245 times.
|
| | | |
| | | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Last comment 02/07/05.Viewed: 262 times.
|
|
|
| | | |
1
