Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Chang Mai

Buddha flags on a tree
Three different Buddhas


Another picture of bells in a row


Ganesh



Old wooden Wat





Two Nagas in front of a staircase. Up above is a big Buddha, but you aren't allowed up the stairs






Monday, February 11, 2008

Bangkok


Hello Thailand! Canals in Bangkok

This birdman is everywhere.

Bells on the Golden Mount

Top of the Golden Mount

Some kind of ceremony at a Buddhist temple, but we couldn't figure it out

Wats

Morning Market by the river

View from a bridge

Rooster in a cage

Just another night on Khao San Road, described by our guidebook as the "backpackers ghetto."

Last Week in India


Saying goodbye to our friends in Guwahati

Monastery in Darjeeling. We saw the original Tibetan Book of the Dead here.

Hilltop views, Darjeeling

Rickshaws in Kolkotta

Street scene

Traffic police on the way to the airport. Goody-bye India.

Kaziranga National Park


Asiatic Water Buffalo skull

Tea plantations outside the park

Rhino in the mist

Baby Elephant

Mother and Child

Deer

Another mother and child rhino

After the elephant ride

Watering hole

Pelicans in flight

Lone rhino

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Along and Surrounding Villages


Sipu River

Men in Paia village drinking Apong, locally brewed rice beer

Paia Village

Donyi-Polo house of worship in Along.

Dan and new friend

Sacrificed animal bones on display in an Adi house

This structure is put up during festival times, and stays up until a new one is built 1 year later.

Men slicing bamboo for basket weaving