Travel makes you smarter.
Hand-painted wall tiles Our new family actually came down to the bus station on Sunday to see us off. Gosh, that is just so nice, Savannakhet has been very good to us. We slept on the bus and rolled into the capital city of Vientiane about 5:30 in the morning. Apparently we arrived in the [...]
Tourists=food in Monkey Forest We rented a motorbike and headed southeast almost 200 Km on a loop around Muang Champhone through Monkey Forest, and across the Champhone river. Zosia took pictures of some young monks and children at the Wat Jan Tak Sa Po which is a temple complex for the orange-robed monks with a [...]
Don’t trust this man! Got to the capital city on Sunday and ran into the same fake monks that we were filming in Siem Reap. They look like father and son and are definitely working together. Real Buddhist monks in this part of Asia wear the robes draped around the body. These fake monks, on [...]
Angkor Wat It is a blessing we spent Christmas in Cambodia and not in the West where we would have been exposed to the commercialization and kitsch of these christian cum US holidays. We only saw a few Christmas trees in the touristy places and only a handful of people greeted us with “Merry Christmas!” [...]
