get ready to drop, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. After a few days in Bangkok watching bad movies, knocking back happy hour drinks and swimming in a hotel pool mostly used by sunbathing Russian prostitutes, we decided our injuries were healed enough to take a train north to the pleasantly touristed city of Chiang…
Month: May 2011
mêlée du Laos
Robbery! After a few pleasant days among the low-key backpacker debauchery of Vang Vieng, we took a stunning bus ride to Luang Prabang on Thursday afternoon. We easily found a nice guesthouse and went out for an early dinner at a French-Laos restaurant. After dinner, we were walking down a side street and stopped to…
Peoples Democratic Republic of Laos-Pronouned-Lao
Lao: Land of Beer And Coffee, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Burma was definitely an experience, and, as experiences tend to do, it wore us out a bit. The language and cultural barriers, the lack of communication and the terrible, terrible food, both Burmese and Western: it gets to you. After Burma, we spent…
Adventures in Burma, Part III: The Leg-Rowers and Jumping Cats of Inle Lake
the road to town, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Flashlights in hand, we walked through black hallways and common areas of our sprawling, four-story guesthouse. “Sorry, the generator is a little broken,” said one of the half-dozen staff gathered out front. It wasn’t too hard to see why fixing the generator might not be…
Adventures in Burma, Part II: Bagan
Bagan stupa plain, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. A thousand years ago, Bagan emerged as a place for rich and powerful Buddhist royals to build brick religious monuments to accrue enough merit to counter the misdeeds that made them rich and powerful. Today, it is a stunning monument to religious zeal—a huge, dusty plain…