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Andrew, our tour leader, wearing very cool and very comfy-looking pants. Viewed: 383 times.
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Umesh listening to London's latest MP3s Viewed: 347 times.
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Jackie checking out her guidebook Viewed: 332 times.
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Doug enjoying local produce. Our lunch, water and fruit is behind him. Viewed: 342 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: 340 times.
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Christie contemplates the universe. Viewed: 346 times.
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Callum, reading one of the ton of books he brought along. Viewed: 364 times.
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Umesh borrowing Sing Thong's most valuable possession, a tour guide ID. Viewed: 322 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: 333 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: 364 times.
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A cargo boat, not our boat. Viewed: 338 times.
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In dry season, the Mekong is so low, trucks can drive along the riverside. Viewed: 360 times.
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Look closely: three trucks heading for a loading dock. Viewed: 334 times.
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Fish drying at a riverside village. We bought imported items instead. Viewed: 349 times.
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Alana takes photos of really weird shit. Specifically, weirdly large worm shit. Viewed: 359 times.
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Ah, civilization. Viewed: 354 times.
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Bamboo strips drying, I believe. Viewed: 344 times.
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One of the village pigs wandered down to the beach. Viewed: 355 times.
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An elephant, taking a break from doing something useful. Viewed: 347 times.
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Many rock outcroppings were topped with a concrete monument, to aid navigation when the water is higher. Viewed: 357 times.
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Yes there is a line of markers strung across the river, from the Thai to the Lao side. Viewed: 335 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: 327 times.
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