Interpretive sign in a Tokyo toilet...
Bangkok full moon festival float - you send your bad deeds/thoughts from last year away on it. Those flowers are made of food (carrots, melon, etc.)
Bangkok riverboat during the full moon festival - the haze is from the massive fireworks show...
huh?
Conor and Josh (UBC and Berkeley) doing the universal Thai picture pose on the river in Bangkok
Still a gear head after all these years - longtail boat in Bangkok
Bangkok's very large reclining Buddha in Wat Pho - incredible
Praying and murals at Wat Pho
Reclining Buddha's big ole' feet (photographer shown for scale)
How the reclining Buddha reclines
Conor and the Buddha's Elbow (dang, nice band-name...)
Lotus at Wat Pho
Daydreaming girl at the Crown Princess' funeral procession.
Bangkok Skytrain graffiti
Glass Buddhas at Bangkok's (massive) weekend market
The dramatic way to make a Thai iced tea...
Split bean snack food at the market
Mountain of grapes at the market (she is standing up behind it...)
Fishing boats at Ban Phe (east of Bangkok)
Sunset at Ko Samet (poaching a lounge chair and the swanky beach...)
Roadside mini-wats have seen better days in Ko Samet
Fishing boat off Ko Samet (Thailand)
From a beach restaurant on Ko Samet (Samet Island) - I came here for a few days after the conference ended
Noodle cart after midnight back in Bangkok
Atlanta Hotel in Bangkok "Bangkok's Bastion of Wholesome Tourism" - Trapped in time and highly recommended
See, I told ya. There's a good amount of sleaze in Bangkok, this place is a pretty amazing respite from it. And cheap.
First auto-rickshaw ride in Delhi - complete sensory overload
Political mural at Jaharlwal Nehru University in Delhi...
A pleasant evening's stroll in Delhi - traffic and pollution here are insane.
Conor and Rebecca (friends from Vancouver) navigating in Delhi - Delhi is a noodle-dish of a city, makes Pittsburgh seem like an example of textbook urban planning... (but I like it!)
Rebecca, Conor and I in an auto-rickshaw
Chandi Chowk - Old Delhi - labyrinthine.
Off Chandi Chowk - hecticity is not a word, it should be.
Old door - Chandi Chowk
Where your file folders probably come from. Chandi Chowk, Delhi
Boy in a fabric store, Chandi Chowk, Delhi
Old doors, Chandi Chowk
Door with tasty talisman. Chandi Chowk
Pedal rickshaw, Chandi Chowk.
Merchant stalls, Chandi Chowk
Pedal rickshaw - these guys work hard.
They're everywhere.
Food cart, surrounded by a cloud in incense. Too bad there's not a Picasa 'smells' function...
Archway, Chandi Chowk - non-stop traffic. I don't have photos of motorbikes ripping through here as I was too busy jumping to safety as they did...
The after-school rush on pedal-ricksaw. School's out!
Typical Delhi traffic 'pattern'. Might makes right and pedestrians and bikes are at the bottom of that pecking order...
Jama Masjid - Old Delhi. Later tower photos are from the top of the left hand tower
In prayer, Jama Masjid
Looking over the Masjid and Delhi
Look at all that pollution... and me clenching to the railing (it's high up...)
From the tower
The Red Fort in Delhi
Conor and Becs on the tower
Hmm. There's part of the problem...
Jama Masjid
A messy photo, but this is our auto-rickshaw up on the bike lane (notice the bike ahead and the bike lane sign in the center-top of the photo...
Mountains of marigolds (each of those bundles is approx. 1 meter square) in Old Delhi at midnight.
More Marigolds (colorized...)
It's wedding season in Delhi.
