1999 Asia album

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trip through asia,

march-august, 1999

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I flew to New Delhi in March of 1999		From Delhi I traveled to Agra, site of the Taj Mahal

In Agra there was some kind of holiday taking place. I had no idea what was going on, but it was very colorful.

After Agra I traveled to Rajastan, a region in the west of India. This is Jodhpur, the 'blue city' of Rajastan.


Another shot of the blue city

The architecture was really good for the soul.

Udaipur

I then traveled to Udaipur, also in Rajastan

Me on a boat in Udaipur

In Bombay

After Rajastan, I traveled down to Bombay


Street in Bombay		Snake-charmer

Cool shot with elephant in background

This was also taken in Goa, in the southwest of India

This was taken in Goa

I took this in front of a church in Goa--Goa used to be a Portuguese colony and has a large Christian population

This was the beach a couple of miles down from my hotel. That's the Indian Ocean, by the way.

I spent about a week chilling out on the beach in Goa--this is a bike that I used for riding around the area.

Another shot of my bike


A group of monkeys	More monkeys


Bubanasvar	Varanasi--this is the Ganges River


	Varanasi backstreets


	People bathing in the holy water of the Ganges River

Arriving in the Calcutta train station

Street in Calcutta

More of Calcutta

Another Calcutta shot

After six weeks in India, I flew from Calcutta to Thailand. I didn't spend a lot of time in Thailand--only a couple of weeks, mostly in Bangkok and on Ko Samui.

Cruising the waters outside Bangkok

After a week visiting the sites around Bangkok, I went south to the island of Ko Samui.

While on Ko Samui, I received an email from my brother Jack telling me that he would be in Bangkok in a few days, so I ran up north again to see him.

Fishermen in the Mekong River. That's Thailand on the other side

From Bangkok, I traveled north to Udon Thani, then crossed over the bridge into Laos. This is the view from my hotel room in Vientiene, the Laotian capital

Road outside Vientiene that I took during a bike ride

The fortress at Hue

From Savanakhet, Laos, to Hue, Vietnam, I traveled by bus. It was a hard trip--it took 16 hours, and the bus broke down frequently. The only place for me to sit was on a case of beer cans, which wasn't very comfortable. This is a shot of the bus that I took during one of our stops.

Two high school students that I met while I was touring the fortress in Hue.

Hue

Outside Hue I went on a tour of an old American camp


	The little town of Hoian was one of the coolest places I visited anywhere during the course of this trip. It's a beautiful little town, and is located about a fifteen-minute bike ride from a super beach.

Some shots of Saigon

Downed American aircraft at the Museum of American War Crimes, formerly the US Embassy

Hanoi--a beautiful green city. It was a lot more peaceful than Saigon, but Saigon was a lot more friendly and fun.

World-famous Jim Hotel in Saigon

National Theatre in Hanoi

Early morning bike-ride out to Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum my last day in Hanoi. Like Lenin and Mao, Ho's body is open and on display

Crossing over from northern Vietnam into China, my first real stop was Yangshuo.


Yangshuo is famous for its numerous green hillocks	Like Guilin, its more famous (and more crowded) neighbor to the north, Yangshuo is a gorgeous place to explore