DAILY PHOTO: Pai River

DAILY PHOTO: Sân Bóng Sóc Hà

DAILY PHOTO: Pha That Luang, Vientiane

DAILY PHOTO: Luang Namtha Farm

PROMPT: Live Anywhere

Daily writing prompt
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Someplace inexpensive, with beaches and hikeable hilly / mountainous terrain within a reasonable distance, and where beer prices are not disproportionately high vis-a-vis the general cost of living. FYI — I call the latter the “stick-up-the-bum” index because if beer prices are relatively high, it usually means they are heavily sin-taxed (it’s not an expensive product to make,) and so disproportionately high beer prices suggest the society is trying to micromanage personal behavior. I may or may not want a beer (I’ll want one,) but I prefer to live in a society with a live-and-let-live mentality. Candidates exist in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Central Asia / Caucus region.

DAILY PHOTO: More Scenes from Muong Hoa Valley

Muong Valley, near Sa Pa, in Northern Vietnam.
Muong Valley, near Sa Pa, in Northern Vietnam. rice terraces.
Muong Valley, near Sa Pa, in Northern Vietnam. clouds.

DAILY PHOTO: Calisthenics Park, Hanoi

CAMBODIA LIMERICK

There was a Cambodian archaeologist 
who dug up temples in jungles – get the gist.
But one day his dig,
under a Strangler Fig,
got him strangled… or so claimed the botanist.

DAILY PHOTO: Bridge to Thống Nhất Isle

Bridge in Thống Nhất Park to an islet in the lake. Hanoi, Vietnam.
On the bridge to Thống Nhất Isle. Hanoi, Vietnam.
Flowers in the flowerbeds of the bridge to Thống Nhất Island in the Thống Nhất Park.
A bridge in Thống Nhất Park to an islet in the lake. Located in Hanoi, Vietnam.

DAILY PHOTO: Limestone Mountains