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...

Hanoi had many shops selling tombstone engravings. This was one of them. Wonder why I saw them only in Hanoi??

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 🙁

These bright yellow post boxes dot the city …

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,...

Doesn’t it look mind boggling just to look at it? This is how electric wires are bunched up all over Vietnam. I have no idea how they maintain it or how anyone can rectify a small mistake in that huge expanse… Here he is now trying to repair something in that mass!

This guy was a mobile singer, with all his equipments including a speaker attached to him! He walked around the lane singing and playing though I didn’t see him spread out a sheet or anything for money.