Hong Kong
Thailand with Nick
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Laos
View of Vang Vien
Vang Vien
Limestone in Vang Vien
Vang Vien
Vang Vien
Riding through Vang Vien
We love bikes!
Vang VIen
Vientiane City Gate
Vientiane
Laos National Monument
Vientiane
Yummy diver on the riverfront
In Vientiane; had beer lao and pin paa (salt-rubbed tilapia stuffed with lemongrass then grilled to perfection!) Yum!
Sipping on some Beer Lao
Vientiane
Delicious Bolaven Plateau coffee
Tat Fan
Located in Bolaven Plateau; a very impressive waterfall
Humble home on stilts
Vang Vien
Tat Fan
Cute kid in Paksong
Riding through the Plateau
Cute kids in a minority village
Bolaven Plateau
Tat Yuang
Tat Yuang
Tat Yuang
Tat Yuang
Tat Yuang view from above
Trekking in the Bolaven
Cute kids in the Bolaven
Eating fresh durian
Benny loves his pineapple!
Jackfruit
One of Ben's favorite fruits - very odd-looking
We LOVE Thailand!
On the river boat in Bangkok
A wat along the Bangkok river
fresh pomelo and float, yum!
night time in Chinatown
Wat and elephant in Ayutthaya
We like bicycles
Monks heading into the wat
colorful monks
12m tall buddha
Buddha big, Ben small
Lots of monks
yummy ice cream- durian and taro
entrance to the wats
Ben's sweating most likely
spring flowers and wats
monks taking a rest
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where's Liya?
There she is!
We really like bikes!
chao (rice soup)
A fun ride through Ayutthaya
Fresh corn on the cob - $0.33!
Sunset in Ayutthaya
A truck full of durian = heaven
Lunch time!
Our daily indulgence: mango soi
Monkeys in Lob Buri
In Seattle, it's squirrels. In Venice, it's pigeons. In Lop Buri, it's monkeys.
Nice wat
What's all this monkey business?
Monkeys everywhere!
Monkeys on cars!
Markets and food carts
Really, monkeys everwhere
We love thai food
Papaya salad - traditional thai
Hilltop temple in Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai hill top temple
Chiang Mai
Jackfruit tree
You can ring my bell
It's a long way up
$5 motorbike for the day
Pretty lady, lovely view
A great Thai lunch
Guey Thiew
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YUM! Our favorite food stand
Chiang Mai Night Market
Ben's popular
The asians loved Ben!!! Asked to take a picture with him! Phimai, Thailand
Phimai
Karaoke rooms for students :)
Khorat, Thailand
Phimai
Phimai
Phimai
Ben getting his $2 haircut
looking a bit nervous... :)
Big buddha in the distance
in the train
Enjoying sunset from the train
With my great aunt and cousin
my great aunt & uncle - so cute!
Mussels!
lunch at the mall
1 kilo of lemongrass mussels for a $1, coconut thai noodles
Hot pot dinner with the family
With my great uncle :)
Love him!
Ben and my cousin, Oh
Ben & Oh feeding the fishes
At the buddhist temple along the river in Bangkok
Fruit feast at my great uncle's
fresh durian - yum!
Mangosteen!
Exotic fruit
More pictures from Vietnam
Hoi An Beach
Amy and I
Erin & Ben
ERin & Ben in Hoi An
Hoi An
Riding our motos through Hoi An
Cheers for Saigon Green Beer!
Junk Boats in Halong Bay
Ben doing some heaving lifting
Amazing Cave
Yes, this is the actual name of the cave - looked like something out of Disneyland Halong Bay
Kayaking in Halong Bay
Going through...
Erin & Amy
Pretty, but...
DIRTY, DIRTY water
Halong Bay @ night
2nd day in Halong
Amy & Ben
Fishing boat
Lunch
At a small house in the middle of nowhere on Cat Ba Island - delicious!
The family we ate lunch with
Trekking on Cat Ba Is.
Walking through rice paddies
Cat Ba Island
Cat Ba Island
At the Cat Ba Is. Beach
Cat Ba
Fresh Beer
For $0.20, not that good
Cat Ba
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Fresh beer!
Hurray for cheap beer
Amy & I
Cat Ba
Cat Ba Bay
Yummy pho in Hanoi
Hanoi at night
Yes!
Vietnam has their own version of "The price is right!!!"
hanoi at night
Big ol' pot of pho
Minority women in Sapa
Pretty ride
Sapa
Sapa
Minority women walking to Sapa
Rice paddy steps
Efficient farming on the mountains
Ta Van Village
$0.50 beer
Sapa
Cat Cat Village
Can you see Ben!?
trekking up the hill :)
Cooling down on a hot day...
Not a bad view...
Sapa Town and lake
Dusk in Sapa
Sapa Market
Sapa
The view from our $5 hotel room!
Vietnam!
Saigon Alley
Standing in one of many alleys in the city - I happen to stand in front of the entrance to my cousin's humble home.
Ben loving the hammock
Relaxing in the small hammock in my cousin's common room
Rush hour in Saigon
Can you see Ben?
Saigon Central Market
Paying our respects
At a chinese pagoda in Saigon
Inside a pagoda in Saigon
Reunification Palace
One of the rooms in the basement bunker - former resident was the S. Vietnam President
Handcrafts Factory in Saigon
Hard Work
Artwork made using egg shells
Tiny pieces of egg shell are placed delicately onto a lacquered piece
Fruit Stand in the Central Marke
Traffic at night in Saigon
With my Uncle
In da club...
B & I joined my cousins at a Vietnamese bar/club - a very interesting experience!
With my cute 2nd cousin
The kids loved Ben!
Saigon Harbor
Huge Ostrich Egg!
Saigon Resort Park
Sugar Cane Field
A whole fried fish
YuM!
Jackfruit Tree
Snake Wine
Yes, that is a cobra in the bottle and NO, we didn't try it!
Making Rice Paper
Cu Chi Tunnels
Climbing down into the tunnels - VC used these during the Vietnam War
Fishing Boats in Mui Ne
Hundreds of fishing boats in Mui Ne
My dad lived on this street!
This is the street where my dad and his family used to live on. The ocean is in the background
Lunch at my aunts'
Mui Ne - delicious lunch; fresh seafood!
Mussels for lunch
my aunts grilled fresh mussels for lunch - yum!
Bun Xeo on the Street
We had some Bun Xeo, a traditional Vietnamese dish, in Mui on the street. Fortunately we didn't get sick!
The view from our bungalow
Mui Ne
fresh scallops
We enjoyed some bbq-ed scallops for real cheap in Mui Ne (1 kilo = 20K Don; 15,800 DON = $1 USD)
Locals BBQing fresh scallops
Enjoying Mui Ne Beach
Sunset in Mui Ne
Family of four on a moped
Cousin King with Ben in Can Tho
Riding on the back of the moped
Can Tho
O Mon
The small town of O Mon - where my mom and her family are from
O Mon
We floated down this river to visit my mom's old home
O Mon
A pagoda along the river
Mom's old home
My great uncle who lives 2 doors down watches over our empty family house
Mom's front yard; River in front
The Family Room
Picture of Grandpa on the cabinet to the right
Family pictures
There is a large frame of family pictures hanging in my mom's/grandma's old home
The backyard
Contains many exotic fruit trees; my grandfather's grave site is located here as well
Family picture - O Mon
Mom's Cousin, Great uncle & aunt, King, me and aunt-in-law
Family Picture
We had a wonderful visit with my great uncle and aunt whom I have never met before. They were so loving!
Floating down the Mekong River
Vietnamese Hot Pot
Dinner with King on our last night
Vietnamese Hot Pot
Dinner in Can Tho - delicious. Tons of seafood too!
Can Tho Resort & Park
Can Tho Resort & Park
Fishing for Crocodiles :)
Can Tho Resort & Park
Ben teasing the crocs!
Countryside - Dalat
Dalat is located in the central highlands of Vietnam. Tons of agriculture in the region. Cooler weather as well.
Central Market
All the fresh produce you can buy is located in the Dalat Central Market!
Holy Avocados!
Heaps of avocados being sold on the street outside the central market
Dalat University
Where my father attended college
Hang Nga Crazy House
The daughter of Ho Chi Minh's right man was the architect behind this crazy house in dalat
Crazy house
Not the safest set of stairs in the crazy house - definitely would not fly in the States
Crazy house
Crazy house in Dalat
Architecture: Salvador Dali meets Alice in Wonderland = CRAZY
A great driver :)
Ben drove us around all day on a countryside tour of Dalat - one of the best tours we've taken
Lake in Dalat
One of the many tour stops we made in and around Dalat
Harvesting spring onions
Countryside tour of Dalat
Buddhist monk
We visited a monk who made incense candles for charity. Look closely and you can see her dog praying w/an incense stick!
Dalat's largest waterfalls
Dalat Waterfall
Relaxing on Nha Trang Beach
Nha Trang Beach in the city
seafood hot pot
We enjoyed this delicious dinner at a local joint in Nha Trang
Floating fishing villlage
One of the many fishing villages we saw while on our boat trip (tour of 4 islands in Nha Trang)
Enjoying our island tour
Huge jelly fish
Nha Trang
Visiting Tam Island in Nha Trang
We did some good snorkeling and swimming
On Mot Island in Nha Trang
We heart the sun and ocean!
Fruit party on the boat!
Mangoes, papayas, watermelon, bananas, dragon fruit, passion fruit, and some other fruits I don't know the names of!
A fishing community in the city
On one side of Nha Trang city, you see these villages, more shacks and poverty. On the other, tourists and hotel resorts
Driving 20km outside the city...
We rented a motorbike for the day and drove quite a ways outside the city, only to discover...
THIS!!!!
A deserted beach outside of the city of Nha Trang! A deserted beach all to ourselves!
Hurray!
So happy
Ben saying goodbye to our beach
Enjoying a beer on the beach
Not a bad view eh?
Nha Trang
Where we enjoyed our beer...
One of many seafood 'restaurants' (more like shacks) where you can choose what you want to eat and they cook it for you
Nha Trang
Enjoying lunch in Hoi An
Our cheap & delicious lunch
This huge lunch of ours in Hoi An only cost us $3!
Mi Quang - a local dish
In one of the 300+ tailor shops
Hoi An - Choosing the fabric for my suit. It's overwhelming!
Silk Lanterns
Old Town Hoi An
Chinese Temple
Old Town Hoi An
Old Town Hoi An
Old Town Hoi An
Old Town Hoi An
Old Town Hoi An
A traditional dress
Hoi An
Hoi An Market
Hoi An Market
Sugar Cane Juice!
See the machine in the background? it presses juice from sugar canes - delicious!
hoi an market
Busy hoi an market
Hoi an market
hoi an market
inside hoi an market
Hoi An River
Fresh crab - hoi an market
Yes, that's raw fish there
Hoi An Market
hoi an market
hoi an market
hoi an market
All sorts of eggs - duck, chicken, quail
custom-made shoe shops
Hoi An
Hoi An