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June 19, 2006

Market In Tlacolula

Yesterday my friend Sharon and I hopped a diesel-spewing bus for the hour ride to Tlacolula, southeast of the city, where vendors from multiple little villages around the Oaxaca...

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June 04, 2006

El Pochote Market & Cinema

North and east from my apartment on Fiallo St., through the Zocolo, under tents and guy-wires, I walked to meet my new friend, Sharon, at an organic market called El...

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April 09, 2006

Road South To Vang Vieng

Slash & Burn! The mountains here are obscured by the smoke from slash & burn fires as in Chiang Mai so unfortunately the sunset over the Mekong isn't as...

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Phousi Market

I discovered today that the Talat Dala Market that used to be up the street toward the river has moved to the outskirts of town and is now called...

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March 15, 2006

Market-Going

Tired of the Night Market for tourists, this week I walked to the Warorot Day Market...a market for the local Thais. I bought delicious garlic flavored BBQ chicken for lunch...

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March 04, 2006

Chiang Mai

Flew from Koh Samui on Bangkok Air (the only airline off the island because Bangkok Air built the airport) and then on to Chiang Mai on budget Air Asia....

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March 31, 2005

Not The Ubud We Pictured

Ubud was nothing like I had pictured. Even though it's community members still adhere to traditional customs and the arts, crafts, music and dances support religious rituals and ceremonies,...

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October 09, 2004

Message from Ulaan Bataar

Greetings- Have been in Mongolia for the past week--initial few days in a ger bordering on a national park--lazy, relaxing days with hiking and Mongolian pony riding (when on...

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September 25, 2002

Hanoi

September 24 2002 Bob left Hanoi right away on the train for Sapa near the Chinese border to do some trekking among the colorful minority villages and then to...

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August 28, 2002

Taunggyi...Last Frontier

At dinner one night in Inle, Bob was considering taking the offer of the waiter to lead him on a trek into the mountains until he told us that...

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August 26, 2002

He Ho & Inle Lake

August 26 2002 It is possible to take a ferry up the Irrawady to Mandalay but we chose not to do this because we heard the ferry was government-run...

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August 23, 2002

Nyaung U

The largest village in the area is Nyaung U about 5 km up the Irriwaddy River from the Pagan Archeological Site and you can visit the market and food...

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August 06, 2002

Talad Nam Lam-Paya Floating Market

Our friend, Jiraporn, who lived in the U.S. ten years and has a doctorate from Oregon State University in Fisheries and is now a lecurer in the Department of Fishery...

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July 18, 2002

Bhuleshwar Bazaars

Kalbadevi You would love this area if you don’t mind being scared out of your wits by long lines of honking taxis and motorcycles behind you and worker after worker...

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March 20, 2002

Pink & Tent-like Marrakech

There is no chance of an American avoiding his/her cultural filters in a country like Morocco-just as I suspected! “Lets Go” travel guide describes Marrakech as a “city of immense...

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