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Royal Dinner in Hue

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

On the day that we toured all over Hue, we also booked to have a fixed course dinner at a local restaurant called yThao Garden. It was billed as a royal dinner and it lived up to its billing. The restaurant was an old colonial house that was beautiful restored and decorated. We sat outside [...]

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Tags: Travel · Vietnam · hue

Perfume Pagoda Tour

December 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

I have posted a gallery on our tour to the Perfume Pagoda outside of Hanoi, Vietnam.
Current Album: 0704 Perfume Pagoda Images:

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Tags: Hanoi · Travel · Vietnam

Hanoi City Tour Photos

December 13th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve added a gallery from July 3 of a tour of Hanoi City (mostly in the rain as it turns out). The Ho Chi Minh Tomb is incredible but you are not allowed cameras so I was only able to get shots was we walked by to get into the queue. Here’s the gallery:
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Tags: Hanoi · Photos · Travel · Vietnam

The Reclining Buddha at Wat Pho

November 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Another of the interesting sites that we visited in Bangkok was called Wat Pho and its another beautiful temple on large grounds. It was pissing rain when we went so there aren’t many pictures of the exterior. Its also the place where I warned Sharon to be more respectful of religious icons otherwise there would [...]

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Tags: Bangkok · Blogroll · Photos · Travel

Bangkok Pictures and Photo Processing

November 25th, 2007 · No Comments

I have updated the blog entry about Bangkok with pictures and have posted 2 new picture galleries. One is of general scenes in around and Bangkok (some appear in the blog above). The other is a gallery of the Grand Palace in Bangkok. The Grand Palace is something to behold, I was expected opulence [...]

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Tags: Bangkok · Blogroll · Photos · Technology · Travel