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Andrew, our tour leader, wearing very cool and very comfy-looking pants. Viewed: 401 times.
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Umesh listening to London's latest MP3s Viewed: 365 times.
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Jackie checking out her guidebook Viewed: 351 times.
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Doug enjoying local produce. Our lunch, water and fruit is behind him. Viewed: 356 times.
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A member of the boat crew helps Jackie along the high-tech gangway. Sing Thong, our Lao guide, stands waiting. Viewed: 354 times.
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Christie contemplates the universe. Viewed: 363 times.
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Callum, reading one of the ton of books he brought along. Viewed: 385 times.
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Umesh borrowing Sing Thong's most valuable possession, a tour guide ID. Viewed: 341 times.
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Christie preferred local food for lunch. Most of the others ordered baguette sandwiches, having an aversion to cold rice. Viewed: 344 times.
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Alana also preferred local food, and hunted down the "pintos" and chopsticks. Chiang Khong had a kitchenware store with many sizes of these lunch containers (also used in India where they are known as tiffins).
Alana told the story of her Tshirt (Tooker Gomberg for Mayor of Toronto, with a vine growing up the CN Tower) which Umesh summarized as "Vote for a dead guy". Viewed: 382 times.
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A cargo boat, not our boat. Viewed: 358 times.
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In dry season, the Mekong is so low, trucks can drive along the riverside. Viewed: 375 times.
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Look closely: three trucks heading for a loading dock. Viewed: 354 times.
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Fish drying at a riverside village. We bought imported items instead. Viewed: 365 times.
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Alana takes photos of really weird shit. Specifically, weirdly large worm shit. Viewed: 374 times.
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Ah, civilization. Viewed: 379 times.
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Bamboo strips drying, I believe. Viewed: 359 times.
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One of the village pigs wandered down to the beach. Viewed: 372 times.
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An elephant, taking a break from doing something useful. Viewed: 363 times.
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Many rock outcroppings were topped with a concrete monument, to aid navigation when the water is higher. Viewed: 371 times.
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Yes there is a line of markers strung across the river, from the Thai to the Lao side. Viewed: 348 times.
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The rock along the Mekong appears to be sedimentary. It breaks apart like slate, with a blue-purple tinge between the layers. But the layers are often vertical or nearly so. Viewed: 343 times.
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