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On our last day in Hanoi, we took a day trip to the Perfume Pagoda, in some mountains maybe 2 hours from Hanoi. The Perfumed Pagoda is a significant shrine, and during the Vietnamese New Year celebration is a major pilgrimmage site (it was very quiet the day we went). Your 2 hour trip from the...
Halong Bay is THE big tourist site in Northern Vietnam. The Karst formations common to coastal Vietnam, Thailand, and parts of southern China come right down into the water, creating amazing rock formations jutting out of the ocean all along the coast around Halong City. Of course, there is every...
While we were in Vietnam, Mako and I spent a couple of days in Sa'pa, which is an old market town and French Hill Station in the far north of the country. Sa'pa is several thousand feet higher than Hanoi, and quite a bit cooler. Sa'pa spends much of its time buried in mists and clouds, so honestly,...
Pictures of things in Hanoi, other than food. Hoan Kiem Lake is the physical and symbolic heart of Hanoi, and lies at the center of the old city. This is at sunrise...shortly after, the park around the lake will be full of joggers, walkers, and Tai Chi-ers. Fairly typical streetscape in Hanoi's Old...
Mako and I just got back from northern Vietnam! We eat tons of Vietnamese food at home, so we were really excited to be able to get the real thing. Here are some of the highlights from Hanoi! For the sake of simplicity, I'm just going to string these along in the order we ate them. Day One Breakfast...
http://infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net/faofreprofba.html Former Governor Jesse Ventura talks with Alex Jones about his upcoming truTV show 'Conspiracy Theories' and his take on current events. IN PART TWO of the interview, Jesse and Alex discuss Obama's falling poll numbers, something Ventura points...
From The Washington Post It was March 26, 1970. Location: A few Godforsaken acres of jungle, pocked by B-52 bomb craters, and now a stage where American tanks fired blasts of sharpened buckshot at an enemy who fought back from subterranean bunkers and could not be dislodged. Tuesday in the White...
Cupertino Square, formerly Valco Fashion Park, has been sold for $60 million to Vallco Shopping Mall LLC, led by Tram Be out of Vietnam according to Báo Đất Việt. As of last September, Gramercy Capital held a $113 million construction loan on the property; the owners later filed bankruptcy in...
From Vietnam, I get a "page not found" error when I try to go to certain sites. Friends in the US, over Skype, tell me that they can see the same sites. So far the list of blocked sites includes the following: www.voanews.com Voice of America News anonymizer.com A proxy service
by Sherwood Ross What President Obama has gotten for his troubles “to placate the right wing” is “bailed out banks that wouldn’t lend, huge bonuses paid to Wall Streeters, tens, scores or more thousands of people losing their homes, an ever bigger, ever more disastrous war, and solid,...
In a poor developing country like Vietnam, where it is 90F every day, opportunities for ice skating do not exist. But I just noticed a way to make it more feasible using artificial ice (Ice Tec 310). This would make it possible to put an "ice" skating rink in central park in Saigon, just like in...
Well I had to say goodbye to Ho Chi Minh City this morning, but it was fun while it lasted. I got to the airport on the back of a motorbike... very fun way to escape the city. I made friends with a Japanese ojisan on the airplane to Thailand and we took a taxi into town together. He called his...
Alright, this is my second attempt to leave Japan... I got my 15-day extension stamp today from immigration (waited hours at the office) but I must exit the country for a bit before the 27th. My flight to Saigon is in the morning, I have my super loud alarm set and have told Ari to call me in the...
So I went to the Shinagawa immigration bureau bright and early this morning to ask for a visa extension. The lady who spoke to me was a bitch and said they could only give me a 15-day extension. My flight back to Seattle is September 29, 17 days after my tourist visa expiration date. She handed me a...
Japan! Yeah I am still here. Went drinking with customers and WH after work Friday, said sayonara to everyone then came home. I stupidly let myself take a nap for a couple hours before my flight, it turned into a really deep sleep. I slept through my alarm, and I woke up 33 minutes after my flight...
Slept with Kazuo in Shibuya yesterday. Had dinner and cocktails with Kazufumi tonight in Shibuya. Getting fat due to endless alcohol and lack of sleep. Worried, so worried about returning to a mundane life, no city lights, no ambulances nor police sirens. No bars and no love hotels, back to that...
Episode 15 in a series of short animated political cartoons by award-winning syndicated cartoonist Ted Rall and David Essman www.rall.com music: "God Save the Queen" by the Sex Pistols "Celebration" by Kool & The Gang "Imagine" by John Lennon
In addition to having a healing itchy tattoo on my back, I have two huge mosquito bites on both my lower legs. Someone shoot me! At least I can scratch the bites. Last night was ridiculous. WH and I trailed behind stupid Fuckwater for ages. We at one point sat in the lobby of the Imperial Hotel in...
1st of all, I want to apologize if I do many mistakes on writing the right language. I must admitted that I’m not a writer nor photographer, I just want to share what I see with my own language (sometime it’s hard to understand) and also with the picture I captured. I’m a traveler and I do...
I was going to blog about the 'controversial' works of Sally Mann's. However I have decided to review controversy over the representation of culture. Instead of reviewing the representation of children through Mann's 'Immediate Family' series. I would like to acknowledge the respect I have for her...
