Suddenly in my head I have this temptation to recall 'Beautiful Strange', strange misadventures in beautiful indo china. So, what I did was in the most succint manner, dissect my entire route, and images and recollections of these places begin to project themselves vividly in the cavity of my universe... this indo china shaped hole.
bus to penang - train to bangkok - train to poipet (cambodia border), get pickpocketed - minibus to siem reap - bus to phnomphen - bus to battambang - back of pickup truck to poipet - train to bangkok - train to vientiene (laos) - bus to vang vieng - bus to luang phabang - bus to vienteane (to get 30 more days at border) - bus to luang phabang - bus to udomxai - bus to luang nam tha - bus to nong khiaw - boat to muang ngoi neau - boat back to nong khiaw - the next ten days was a whole bunch of pick up trucks, trucks, and hitch hikes to xam neau - truck to vieng xai - truck to nam meo (vietnam border) - hired jeep to god knows where somewhere in the middle of vietnam and couldn't ask cause we can't speak vietnamese - mini bus to thanh hoa - bus to hanoi -train to hue - mini bus to hoi an - mini bus back to hue - bus to savanakhet (laos) - bus to pakse - truck to ubon ratchatani (thailand) - train to bangkok - flight back to kl.
Madness... these images play in my head now... I yearn to return to Luang Phabang... maybe you would like to come along?
Good night, may your dreams tonight generate fascinations of lands far far away.
clicking on the above photo transports you to 'Beautiful Strange'.
1 comment:
i find it strange you can remember the buses trains etc you took, mostly because it doesn't seem like the human mind is supposed to retain such information to me. i never understand it.
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