We are back to Halifax after snorkeling near Koh Ma in the south of Thailand. I had to come back to open our mail...
We enjoyed a bit of snow and skiing.
Vu en route vers Epidaure
Ferme a poissons
Vue de la route entre Corinthe et Epidaure
Canal de Corinthe
On pense qu'il n'y a rien a voir, mais c'est, sans aucun doute, pour le moins impressionnant.
Pansion Boussetil, Tinos
We had two nice rooms joined by a terrasse with all comfort (little kitchen) and a very nice owner who was in Asia around the same time as us last winter!
Tinos
On s'amuse bien a visiter le supermarche.
tinos
robin hood flour in greece
it says its from canada!
Zakopane, Pologne
La cuisine de Stara Polana
Zakopane, Pologne
Promenade dans les Tatras
Cracovie
Cracovie
Emilien, Gregoire and Viola
Is it really cinnamon?
Let's taste it...
Salades
Au supermarche d'Island Plaza, tout est ecrit en anglais dans les rayons et presque toujours sur les produits.
Spice Garden, Batu Ferringhi
Jeannot and Paula under one of the five kinds of bamboos
Spice Garden in Batu Ferringhi
Emilien with what he felt would be a nice umbrella.
Thaipusam
Huge crowd, intense heat, powerful atmosphere
Thaipusam
A show of wonderful saris...
About bad luck
I don't want to mention them, so can you guess what numbers are missing?
In the bus, Georgetown
Hmmmmm
Indian rotis
Georgetown, Malaisie
Farmasi, Teksi, Aksesori... Pas difficile a comprendre!
Vue sur Penang, Malaisie
Nous sommes au 15eme etage, dans l'appartement de Paula et Savannah.
En thailande on se fait transporter avec les bagages.
Et la mobylette qui suit, c'est Jeannot.
Elephants and friends
This is a real one...
Elephants and friends, Kanchanaburi
Here they keep elephants and if you want, you can go help. Elephants are a handfull...
The train from bangkok to Kanchanaburi
Wooden benches and cheap fares...
Snake farm, Bangkok
This is how they catch the siamese cobra at the end, to put him back in his box. They warn everybody not to try to imitate them...
Snake farm - Bangkok
Here they teach about snake behaviour, but they also put up an amazing show...
Les petits poissons dans la rue
Il y a partout de grandes poteries contenant des algues, des lotus, des nenuphars, et, ce qui me fscine, des tonnes de petits poissons parfois colores (beaucoup de guppies).
Emilien devant les ordinateurs
Pantip Plaza, Bangkok
Luang Prabang, food on the street
Frying rolls...
Cohabitation de la feuille de banane et du plastique.
Laos is still untouched in some places and aspects, and very modern in others. Just like the banana leaves and the plastic.
COhabitation des beaux batiments raffines et de la tole ondulee.
Luang Prabang, Laos
Il y a tout au long des rivieres de magnifiques potagers, copieusement arroses... a la main.
Organic is not even a question here. It comes from the gardens.
Le soir le long du Mekong. Des montagnes d'oranges eclairees a la bougie.
Orange market at night along the Mekong
Les francais ont laisse des traces imperissables ici : la baguette, la petanque et les crepes.
A few of the leftovers from french colonialism : baguette, petanque and crepes...
Il ne faut pas se fier aux apparences. 3000 kips, ce n'est pas beaucoup...
Our preferred drink
New year
On our way to the Kuang Si falls, the tuk-tuk dropped us in a village so that we would buy some arts and crafts, and it happened to be the new year. This explains the nice dresses.
The temples in Luang Prabang are very sophisticated.
Across our guesthouse is the river and all the gardens.
Every morning, gardeners walk up and down to collect water in their cans for their lettuces, cabbages, carrots and so on.
Sculpture Park, Nong Khai
An artist from Laos did these huge statues out of concrete. There is a whole garden. This one is particularly huge. Guillaume and Helene are passing by at its feet.
Le pont de l'amitie entre la Thailande et le Laos
Photo prise lors de la croisiere...
The most comfortable chairs are made of old tires
Sunset on the MaeKong - Coucher de soleil sur le Mekong
We took a little one hour cruise at sunset.
King rama V's photograph is in every house, between Buddha and the actual King.
Chulalongkorn Rama IV died in 1868, and was succeeded by his 15-year-old son Chulalongkorn, who reigned as Rama V and is now known as Rama the Great. Rama V was the first Siamese king to have a full western education, having been taught by an English governess, Anna Leonowens - whose place in Siamese history has been fictionalised as The King and I. At first Rama V's reign was dominated by the conservative regent, Chaophraya Si Suriyawongse, but when the king came of age in 1873 he soon took control. He created a Privy Council and a Council of State, a formal court system and budget office. He announced that slavery would be gradually abolished and debt-bondage restricted. [...] By 1910, when the King died, Siam had become at least a semi-modern country, and continued to escape colonial rule.
Mmmmmmmmmmm
Food in the street. Jeannot bought one dried beef with spices, ate it, then went back for more. Very good...
Bougainvillees a l'hopital de Nongkhai
La bougainvillée, parfois appelée le bougainvillier, est un arbuste de la famille des Nyctaginacées appartenant au genre bougainvillea découverte par le botaniste Philibert Commerson au Brésil lors de l'expédition autour du monde dirigée par l'explorateur français Louis Antoine de Bougainville. (Wikipedia)
MutMee Guest house, NongKhai
Jeannot a rencontre deux quebecois de Trois Rivieres...
The bus
Buses floors are all made of nice wood...
Kanchanaburi
Nita Rafthouse
Kanchanaburi
Emilien waiting for the ferry
Kanchanaburi
Dragon temple cave. We rented 5 bicycles for 100 baht a day (3 dollars) and went to visit two temples located inside of natural caves.
Kanchanaburi
The river Kwai
The King
Tomorrow is the king's birthday. He will be 80. The festivities promise to be impressive and all over the country. Bhumibol's hold over Thai public opinion was demonstrated following the 2003 Phnom Penh riots in Cambodia, when hundreds of Thai protesters, enraged by the burning of the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh, gathered outside the Cambodian embassy in Bangkok, ripped the Cambodian seal out of the front wall, and tried to break into the embassy. The situation was resolved peacefully when Police General Sant Sarutanonda told the crowd that he had received a call from royal secretary Arsa Sarasin conveying Bhumibol's request for calm. The crowd dispersed.[50] (Wikipedia)
Toute sorte de soupes et plats dans la rue. Un vrai regal...
We can eat all kinds of soups and dishes in the streets. Dddddddddddelicious...
One of the six cats
is taking a cat nap behind a pot...
Kanchanaburi
This is the city of the famous Bridge over the river Kwai. We stayed in a raft house, between fishes, lizzards, plants and cats.
Kanchanaburi
On the other side, coming back.
Kanchanaburi, the ferry
Kanchanaburi
We rented bicycle to go visit a few caves and temples. We took the ferry across the river.
On the way down. Golden Mount
Bangkok from the top
Golden Mount, Bangkok
You can buy a bell for 70 baht, but I figured out it is not to bring home because here they are, ringing in the wind.
Incense
People use a lot more incense than what we are used to.
Golden Mount, Bangkok
The top
Buddhas for sale
Buddhas, Golden Mount, Bangkok
Up in the pagodas there were all kinds of different buddhas, small and big. People buy gold leaf that they stick on the statues.
ย้ฟพ
I could not resist... Jeannot is picking a little insect out of a flower in order to take a clean photo.
Lotus
Golden mount, Bangkok. We walked up that pagoda, stopping every two seconds for orchids, lotus flowers, ferns, little fish, etc.
This is part of the walls of our guest-house...
In the street - Dans la rue - Bangkok
We got to know Ari who started helping Helene to learn the Thai characters. Here Helene is sitting on the side of the street, and while she was waiting for us and she started working. A passerby stopped to compliment her also! Dans la rue, en train de nous attendre, Helene en a profite pour copier les caracteres Thailandais. Un passant s'est arrete pour la feliciter..
Notre pension a Bangkok
est tres confortable. Il y a des orchidees et des poissons (dans des aquariums) partout!
Les montgolfieres
Il s'agit d'un sac de papier a l'envers, avec du combustible dessous. Il suffit de le tenir jusqu'a ce qu'il s'envole!
Samedi soir
C'etait une grosse fete et tout le monde etait dans la rue. On pouvait acheter des gateaux de fleurs flottants. On nous a explique que le but etait l'expression de la gratitude. Alors nous avons achete notre bateau, allume l'encens et la bougie et mis a l'eau!
Loy Krathong Festival
Loy Krathong Festival. This is an ancient brahmin festival happening on the full moon of the 12th lunar month. Exactly one day after we set foot on the ground of Thailand, without premeditation... Its purpose is to pay homage to Mae Kong Ka, the spirit of the waters.
Les bateaux fleuris- Loy Krathong
Il y en a de toutes les couleurs... Il y avait aussi des feux d'artifice, des petards, des montgolfieres de papier, et toujours a manger!
Pharmacie tibetaine en Inde
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J'ai un gros rhume. Alors on m'a recommande (une irlandaise) un medecin tibétain. Et j'ai des boules de plantes a manger avant et apres chaque repas. Elle m'a aussi dit qu'il faisait froid et qu'il fallait que je me couvre. C'est au moins la 10ème personne à me le dire. Il ne fait que vingt degrés environ... I had a big cold, went to the tibetan doctor, and now I have medicines to take. Here is the pharmacist. I am also supposed to wear long sleeves, but I didn't take any with me when I left!
Pahar Ganj
Le quartier animé de Pahar Ganj. Les vaches sont toujours tres paisibles. Avouez qu'elle est belle, celle-là!
New Aruna Nagar, New Delhi
This how wide our street id in the tibetan colony in New Delhi. And some streets are much narrower!
Potala House
Il y a un petit chien blanc dans l'hôtel. Il est sur la photo. Devinez où il se trouve!
Henné
Ce matin, Hélène est allée, après le magasin de tissus, se faire peinturlurer les mains. C'est Tsetan, jeune femme qui travaille à l'hôtel, qui l'a emmenée. Et elles ont mangé--tenez-vous bien--au McDo!
Difficile de resister. Hard to resist...
Helene at the entrance of the fabrics shop.
magasin de tissus
Nous sommes allees acheter du tissu pour nous faire faire des robes tibetaines...
Billing-le parapente
Voici les montagnes vues depuis le parapente
paragliding-parapente
Les enfants sont allés faire un tour de parapente au-dessus des montagnes. Ici Helene tient le parachute pour faciliter le départ d'Émilien (sije me souviens bien).
Bir - Tibetan colony
Deer Park Institute, Bir
This is the temple, the bedrooms are not decorated that much...
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