A good night’s sleep restored my tired limbs and muddled senses. Since we had not planned on anything concrete today we took bicycles again and went around town. Visited a couple of Wats or temples. The highlight of the day was cycling all the way to Ban Pho, which is a village of weavers. The...
Our bus tickets to Luang Prabang were booked. After a long wait, a van finally came to pick us up at our hotel. There was a further wait in the bus itself but at last it left around half an hour late. For the first time in my life I found myself not shivering in...
The rain has finally tired itself out I think. Yesterday it poured the whole day with alternating strength. But I hired a bicycle for 10,000 kip (a little more than $1) for half a day and a blue poncho that says “Shower Attack.” After equipping myself with these items I had lunch at a vegetarian...
This latest trip was long due. Well, by my standards. Its been more than five months since I went anywhere and the travel bug had started biting badly. So here I am in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, which most people mistake for Lagos in Nigeria. A sleepy town, its hard to believe that its...
Vietnamese coffee was one of the best I ever tasted. They give two different concoctions – one with milk and one without milk. My favorite was the milky one sweetened with condensed milk, I gulped a lot of cups/glasses during my visit!
This is how a crossing is in HCMC. And you are expected to somehow wriggle yourself through this to reach the other side. Initially I was petrified. Then I learnt to tag along behind the locals who would part the traffic easily like a Red Sea and these bikes would just swarm like fish in...
Clusters of fish being transported for sale in aquarium stores. Nice way to supply them though I feel sad for the poor fish bunched in there in such a humiliating manner 🙁
I managed to click a couple of pictures in the famous Ben Thanh market before I was shooed off by an irate shopkeeper. For some reason I was not welcome with my camera there. Here stacks of sauces and pickles and all sorts of condiments can be seen. Here on the right, heaps of seafood,...
