Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Greetings from Seoul!

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Greetings from Seoul!! This is a quick video from our hotel room when we checked in this morning! We love how San Francisco-esque Seoul is ...

Our first stop! (Seoul)

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A market -- of course! Namdaemun market is a local market. I thought it would be filled with Korean crafts, but instead it was where the lo...

I love the subway! (Seoul)

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One of the really interesting things about Seoul, is that South Korea is in the process of romanising their alphabet. Practically what this...

Just because.

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Doesn't Jason look nice and relaxed??

Mui Ne Flowers.

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Because its my blog and I adore flowers. We spent a half an hour walking the grounds of the resort photographing flowers. The resort garde...

Dragon Fruit. (Vietnam)

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Dragon fruit is a local fruit. Its pink on the outside and white on the inside with thousands of tiny black seeds. We liked dragon fruit -...

We've been quiet. (Mui Ne)

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I've been quiet because well, for a week our lives were fairly quiet. We were in a mini-paradise. It was lovely, and we enjoyed consid...
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Friday, 25 July 2008

Sampan Cruising.

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Our trip through the Delta took many forms -- a motor long boat, a horse drawn cart, walking, and the best of all -- a sampan ride. The sam...
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A view from the top!

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The Mekong Delta is filled with man-made canals for irrigation. We are crossing a bridge over one of the canals, and Ang was kind enough to...

Sweet and Spice.

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Our first stop -- a coconut candy making factory. While this may not be incredibly interesting to most, I was thrilled to visit the "fa...

The Mekong River Delta

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In the Mekong River Delta area, locals still live on the islands, grow their own food and of course rice, and generally live a much slower w...

Presidential View!

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We are now standing on the balcony of the Presidential Palace. Looking back at the gates where the Soviet Army stormed the Palace. I am gu...

The President's Office

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It could be that it was 1975, or that it was South Vietnam. Either way, this is a shocking Presidential Office. I am thinking of the Oval ...

Jason, Meghan and little boy. (Saigon)

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Reunification Hall fka The South Vietnamese Presidential Palace. Possibly the largest tourist attraction in Saigon. The palace remains in ...

Saigon Sights -- Quick and Dirty.

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As far as tourist sights go, there aren't many in Saigon. Its a very interesting city, but given the wars, its relatively new and lackin...

Food -- Vietnamese Style

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I have been forgetting about food! Maybe you have been wondering what we have been eating. True to the purpose of our trip we have been av...
Tuesday, 22 July 2008

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It occurred to me today that you might not understand what I am saying when I say "hot", "rain", "supplies" or...

Trees and the Jungle

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Okay, for the last of the temple pictures. It is so easy to see from these pictures how the temples were "lost" for so many hundre...