Hello and Goodbye!

Motorbiking! (Oliver)

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This is Oliver and Old Blue, which he shared with Helen (I was to inexperienced to have someone on the bike with me). This was taken on the way back into Phnom Penh, after Gretchin started to break down and Oliver and I switched bikes. Once I started driving Old Blue the gear lever broke and I was stuck in first gear going all the way into Phnom Penh. Oli could barely keep the other bike from dying, keeping pliers in his hands to work the choke as he was driving. All of this through crazy S.E. Asian traffic.

Phnom Penh

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the view from our guesthouse room in downtoan Phnom Penh

Mangroves

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Off of Rabbit Island, off the southern coast of Cambodia, where we spent a night.

high fashion sandals

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While walking around the rocky shore of Rabbit Island, my flip flops finally died. Oliver rummaged around the litter in the bushes and made me a new sandal so I could walk back to camp over the rocks.

getting dinner

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our incredibly nice host getting crabs for our dinner. the water is very shallow for a long distance out of shore. unfortunately, it is about the same temperature as your skin, and swimming in it felt like, as oliver put it, swimming in your own sweat.

Rabbit Island

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a beach that belongs in a movie

Takeo

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The view from our guesthouse room in Takeo, on our way back to Phnom Penh. In the rainy season, it is a huge lake. In the dry season (which we were in), they farm rice in parts of it.

Market

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A huge indoor market back in Phnom Penh.

Tuol Sleng

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These are cells in the high school the Khmer Rouge converted into a secret prison, known as S-21. They killed approx. 2 million of their own people while in power between 1975-1979; about 20,000 of them at S-21 itself. This was followed by years of civil war after the Vietnamese invaded. The Khmer Rouge didn't surrender until 1998, when internal conflict led to the death of Pol Pot, the most notorious leader of the regime. Occasionally, one still sees young children missing limbs from tripping over land mines left by both sides.

Hanoi-street market

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We stayed in a guest house down a rambling little alley with a street market. this is the view from a window on our floor.

Hanoi-street market

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a butcher shop

Hanoi-street market

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having a chat on the street

Vietnamese Museum of Ethnology

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this was at the wonderful museum in Hanoi. it was by far the most well put together museum we saw in all of SE Asia.

Vietnamese Museum of Ethnology-spinning

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Display of a Hmong woman making hemp yarn.

Museum-house

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One of the full sized traditional houses outside of the museum, with a crazy roof.

Halong Bay

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We spent a night on one of these traditional junks in Halong Bay. It was very touristy, with different tours playing bumber cars at the various different sights that they take you to. Here is the cave, here is the beach, here is the rock that is somehow supposed to look like a dog.