klongs

On the way to Nepal I'll have a couple of days in Bangkok.

This time I'd like to explore more of the klongs

& some of the temples on the other side of the river.

I wonder how much the old wooden houses were

damaged by the floods, some looked quite frail already.

yangtze

I went down the Yangtze about 1982, there were

a few other foreigners on the boat, from Chungking to

Shanghai, & lots of chinese, it was deadly hot by Wuhan.

I'd wanted to go to Dunhuang, but couldn't face the heat

How many more people since then?

river-day 2

More rocks from the Mekong..

The reason the days are too busy to do much else is

that I'm organising another trip, on fairly short notice,

which will include another great river, the Ganga..

looks like a fun show

river, day 1

You can check the 2008 archives, for other photos of the

Mekong; here I was thinking about how fascinating it

would be for a geologist, every few minutes it seemed

to be a different rock formation.

Of the large rivers I've been on, this is my favourite.

anna-wili highfield

Hanoi

Lovely ethnographic museum in Hanoi,

outside was mayhem, it was new year.

Here it will be busy for a while so I'll dig in my archives,

probably.

random

Am busy with something else, so opened a random folder

then ditto for these photos, which are from

the Mekong delta, during a 2008 trip.

It's in between Vietnam & Cambodia.

There's 300 GB files in that external hard drive (1 of 3)

even so I may have repeated some.

ethereal soap bubbles

colour

These are the other photos I converted to b/w,

Maybe the results are different if you start out

thinking in b/w ?

But there is so much colour in the world!

Even when it's mostly just one colour, I prefer it.

How about you?

the gorgeous tree hotel