Saturday, November 3, 2007

Along the Mekong: Photos

The cave walls were marked with ancient script. We burnt the end of a stick and added: "USA J & M 2007."


Foreground: Our bike, Metallica. Background: Big Cave Mountain.

Implements around the temple grounds.


The eye of a dragon, seen on a temple wall in Chiang Khan.


Rice farmers, shot from the back of the motorbike.


Chicken organs for sale at Chiang Khan market. Yum.


Pig faces for sale. We tried to imagine two people sitting down to eat, a pig face staring at each of them. It seems strange.


Watching, we figured out this was street chess. The players slam their pieces down with each move.


This guy sold a variety of tasty drinks, including iced coffee, iced tea, iced green and iced red.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

mike's mom: each of your stories or photos is a like a Christmas stocking - great anticipation, over too soon. WIthout the title, the chicken parts could be a Guess This contest.... the contrasting background and repeating pattern is weirdly beautiful. Love you.

Anonymous said...

Mike,
The cave sounds really cool. I like the dragon's eye picture. The stone work around it is really interesting...it actually looks like a dragon. The food sounds like it might be enough to make me nauseous. Hopefully it tastes a lot better than it sounds. Keep having fun.
Love,
Emily