Monday, August 24, 2009

Some shots and thoughts




Vendors selling everything from sunglasses to sticky rice to the passengers on the bus.














Cedar enjoying the boat ride and our capitan, below, with a confident smile moments before the engine quit. After about half an hour's tinkering he managed to get it running again.





















































Taxis drivers are very eager for our business. Once while riding in a taxi we had another driver come up to us and ask us if we wanted a taxi. We're still not sure if he was joking or not.




















Here is a picture of the crowded train between Thailand and Cambodia. Humidity was up near 100% and the temperature above 35 degrees.




























The border crossing between two kingdoms: Thailand and Cambodia.
















Koh San Road in Bangkok is a pretty crazy place and quite the shock for us coming from the rural quiet of Laos.


















































































ts and landslid es.



Next to Afghanistan and Angola, Cambodia is the most heavily mined country in the world.

It is estimated that between 4 and 6 million unexploded mines still litter the country side. Since 1979 more than 40,000 Cambodians have suffered amputations due to land mines.

The other social cost is that vast tracts of land are unusable due to the presence, or possible presence of land mines.


This is the main highway between northern Vietnam and Laos.

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