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Central American Travel Photos
Central American Travels July 2007 Panama Costa Rica Zac and I have had more than our fair share of travels in foreign countries, but this trip seemed different. It was the first time that it really felt like a vacation in the traditional sense—an escape from the humdrum routine of life as working adults (if …
Costa Rica Travels
Costa Rica July 2007 San Jose Monte Verde La Fortuna (Arenal) Playa Hermosa Alajuela (epilogue)
XINGHAI SQUARE
XINGHAI SQUARE AND BEACH Xinghai Square is the “largest square in Asia” Beer Festival Click here for photos from the beer festival held in Xinghai Square
Vang Vieng
Laos: Vang Vieng May 13-15, 2006 We arrived at Vang Vieng in the afternoon, and as we were eating lunch, we noticed some rockets and explosions in the distance. After eating, we headed upstream to see what was going on. What we found was a local festival. There were all these villagers, with canisters of …
Boat to Luang Prabang
Laos: Boat to Luang Prabang on the Mekong River May 10-11, 2006 We spent the night in Chiang Khong, on the Thai side of the river, and early the next morning, took a little motorized wooden ferry over the river and crossed into Laos. From there, we took a river boat down the Mekong River …
Vientiene
Laos: Vientiene May 15-16, 2006 We rode to Vientiene on a “chicken & vegetable bus” (the local bus) that left at 5:50 a.m. Sera sat next to a chicken picking up more vegetables interior of the bus unloading the bus at the market local market in Vientiene selling traditional medicine Vientiene is the laid-back capital …
HCMC (Saigon)
VIETNAM: HO CHI MINH CITY (SAIGON) April 28-30, 2006 April 30th was our last day in Vietnam. It was somehow appropriate, I suppose, that we left Saigon exactly 31 years to the day after the city fell, or was liberated (depends on who you ask) to the communist Viet Cong. The whole time we’d been traveling through …
Road to Thailand
CAMBODIA: Road to Thailand May 5, 2006 The bus ride to the border with Thailand qualified itself as a “bus ride from hell” and lest you envy our traveling while you sat in your comfortable office, let me elucidate: We were on a rickety minibus with a psychedelic pink interior and “natural air-conditioning” (windows open) …
Botswana
BOTSWANA: Chobe National Park
Asian Travels
Asian Travels 2005-2006 South Korea Hong Kong China Vietnam Cambodia Laos Thailand Malaysia Singapore