Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Family Vacation


My parents were just here for their semi-annual Asian Adventure. They bopped all around Singapore, headed to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for five days, and wrapped things up with a quick jaunt to beautiful Krabi, Thailand. It was quite a full trip – we saw nearly every side of Southeast Asia -- with lots of elephants and war relics and Singapore Slings and island-hopping and some extremely delicious mango sticky rice. Oh! And! I got to shoot an M-16, which was kind of amazing and very loud. Let's go to the photos….

First, Ho Chi Minh City: Crazy, busy, bustling, full of motorbikes and lacquerware and fantastic French architecture. Also, lots and lots of delicious iced coffee and some really great food.















We spent a day north of the city, checking out the famous Cu Chi tunnels (where they let you shoot old M-16s) and then heading to the absolutely amazing Cao Dai Temple, which is fanastically colorful and surreal:






Back into town again:










Then on to Krabi! Almost exactly the opposite of HCMC. Lots of beaches, blue skies, bluer water, melt-in-your-mouth mango sticky rice and extremely spectacular sunsets.








posted by betsy at 11:21 PM

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

ummm...which beach in Krabi did you stay at?

11:42 PM  
Blogger betsy said...

klong muang, at the nice (and budget-friendly) krabi sands resort (the sofitel is just up the road, and it was pretty fantastic, if you're looking for something a little nicer. i'd suggest you avoid the sheraton.) the area was super-quiet and very relaxing -- the beach right in front of the hotel was only so-so, but we took a boat out to some of the nearby little islands and they were lovely.

12:43 PM  
Anonymous charlene said...

Lovely pictures!makes me wanna jet ther immediatly!been reading ur blog..keep up w the kooky reads and awesome pics..

1:26 AM  
Blogger sugarfreesweetie said...

You are an amazing photographer!!!

6:52 PM  
Blogger Lori Witzel said...

The giraffe (best darn cropping -- makes the pic just too darn funny.)
The candles in the darkness.
The Eye in the Cao Dai Temple.

An abundance of eye-delights!

9:17 PM  

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