Angkor Wat: The Tourist Photos

Tourist A


Tourist B


The history major at work.


A bas-relief of some soldier guys. These were gorgeous, large-scale, and everywhere at Angkor. Glorification of the military transcends the centuries.


One Angkorian god-king built a temple with over 250 of these "buddha images" that apparently looked very similar to himself.

A tilty boat we saw

Fishermen...or pirates? Aaarrgh! (For Bob)

Southern Thailand

Greta's Glamour Shot.


Phi Phi harbor.


We're not coming home!

Early morning boat rides

We got from Siem Reap to Battambang and then Cambodia to Vietnam by boat.


Boating.


The General Store in the Floating Village.


Water-taxis.


Getting around.


Waitin' for the boat.

Update

We've both recovered from malaria or dengue fever or whatever it was and we're excited because we now have a plan about how to get out of Vietnam and into Southern Thailand for a few days of (more) rest and recovery. Gratuitous shots of white sand and blue water coming soon...

On the way to Cambodia...

Chang Beer frame.


Greta being pick-pocketed at the Cambodian border.
We thought they were so friendly and cute at the time...


Sunset on the bumpy bus.


We're on an elephant.


Really happy about the elephant.

Mae Sarit to Mae Sariang

Village.


Another nice roof.


We caught a little chick.


But we couldn't catch this rooster. (This picture
for Greta's mom)


G on a Bamboo Bridge.

Moped Diaries

We rented a moped for a day and cruised around looking for some hot springs that were supposed to be nice. We eventually found a kind of warm, eggy trickle coming out of the ground and that was cool...but, oh man, the moped was so much cooler.


This one is for Josh.


Pepsi Latte: Fast-paced taste for a fast-paced generation.


Traffic.


Testosterone surge.

Thi Lor Su Waterfall: "No. 6 Most Beautiful Waterfall in World!!!"

We hiked to this waterfall that was touted as being the "No. 6 Most Beautiful in World." It was beautiful, but it was also a really big, fun waterpark.


Take Off!


Watching and waiting for the dive.


Debating.


Wheeeeee!

Jungle Hike

Our guide.


Our oxen died while fording the river.


Monkey tree.

Still in Burma

Walking and talking.


More cuteness: "Saa wat dii kha!"-saying Burmese
school girls.


Ride out of town.

Crossin' the border to Burma

The hood. Apparently, a lot of refugees from the
KNU democracy movement live around here. We
noticed that camo definitely was in, but otherwise
not much.


Nice shades.


The street in Myawadi. It'll be paved next year,
we promise.


Cuteness.

Around Mae Sot

G and D by a pretty waterfall.


G at Mae Tao Clinic: home of the "backpacker medics."

Monkey Attack!!!

Greta and I spent a day in Lopburi, a town famous for its temples and monkeys. We decided to skip the temples and head straight for the monkeys, which are all over the town, but mostly live around this one apartment complex, crossing the street during the day to play around with the tourists in a little park. At first we thought they were cute, but when we got a little bag of seeds to feed them with they got really aggressive and vicious. They stole things and pulled our hair. It was fun anyways...


This monkey stole our water, bit through the plastic,
and started gulping it down before we could stop it.


Aaaaaaa!! So many monkeys!


Monkey girl.


Monkey Boy.

Ayuthaya

Big ol' reclining Buddha, modestly covered with
the traditional yellow robe. (Greta for scale)


Greta breaking the rules (but getting a nice view).


Wat ruins.


Buddha head in some tree roots.