Taken in the summer of 2018 in Pokhara, Nepal
DAILY PHOTO: Phewa Tal at Dusk
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DAILY PHOTO: Sunset Over Lake Phewa
DAILY PHOTO: Alona Beach
Taken in December of 2017 at Alona Beach on Panglao Island
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DAILY PHOTOS: Boats on the Backwaters
DAILY PHOTO: Boats Parked in the Mekong Delta
DAILY PHOTO: The Eyes Have It
Taken in December of 2015 in the Mekong Delta
In the Mekong Delta, the ships have eyes. Well, many of them do anyway. The eyes painted on the bow of boats and ships are to ward off evil. Interestingly, the one class of boats that typically don’t have eyes are fishing vessels. Fishermen fear the eyes will scare away the fish, and they’re willing to take their chances with evil. Plus, we all know that evil fish are the most tasty.
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DAILY PHOTO: Slow-boating on the Mekong Delta
DAILY PHOTO: Amantani Jetty
Taken in July of 2011 on Amantani Island
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DAILY PHOTO: Tiny Island
Taken in January of 2014 at Kata Beach on Phuket.
I took this with a phone as the sun was getting low. It’s taken at the north end of Kata Beach, which is separated from the south end of Karon Beach by a little promontory. It’s either blurry or minimalist, depending on whether you like it or not. The boats were in for the night, and the sun was shimmering hard.
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DAILY PHOTO: Reflections in Rangsit, Thailand
Rangsit, Thailand
I thought I’d take a break from posting pictures of either monuments to wealth and power or pristine nature scenes. I took this in Rangsit, Thailand, which is a northern suburb of Bangkok out past the Don Muang Airport. I was there studying at the Muay Thai Institute for one week. (Muay Thai is a martial art and the national sport of Thailand.) If you’re curious about what my experience with that was like, I have posts about it here and here.)
It was fascinating to see what a love/hate relationship water has with these people. It nourishes them. It bathes them. But every once in a while it tries to kill them. A kindly restaurateur showed me pictures of his landlocked restaurant underwater during the floods of 2011. At that time the tree tops you see were probably just jutting out of the water– if they weren’t entirely submerged. (I base this on the height of the elevated express way to the left that I think was at water level, based on pictures I’ve seen.)
