Muddy creek

Mekong Merchant

School shoes

It would seem you can can get 50% off at Maya

Conical driver

Spilt drink

Hand washing messages

I have seen a few of these public health posters around town. This one is pretty self explanatory - wash you hands before preparing food and eating, wash your hands after pulling your pants up.

Still bucketing down

It has been raining very heavily the past few days. These two blokes did not seem too perturbed as they set about to deliver their load

Been wet lately

This bloke has the unenviable job of directing reversing cars the wrong way into oncoming traffic on a one-way street in the rain. As per usual, everyone makes way

White gumboots

The perfect footwear this rainy season

Cow in field

Mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival

Read all about the festival, Tết Trung Thu, here

Windsurfing at Jibes in Mũi Né

Nhà Thờ Tân Định

Tân Định church was constructed in 1876 and is famous for its pink exterior. It is situated on the very busy Hai Bà Trưng st and, as with most buildings in Saigon, is impossible to view without looking through power lines.

Phnom Penh from very high

Great sky last night

Sister City - Champasak

According to the HCMC People's Committee website, Champasak is one of its four Sister Cities. Champasak was a kingdom in southern Laos that broke away from the Lan Xang kingdom in 1713. The Kingdom of Champasak prospered at the beginning the 18th century, but it was reduced to a vassal state of Siam before the century had passed. Under French rule the kingdom became an administrative block with its royalty stripped of many of its privileges. The Kingdom of Champasak was abolished in 1946 when the Kingdom of Laos was formed. Not much remains of Champasak apart from a very small rural town of little interest. The pictures above are of Wat Phou, which was built before the Champasak Kingdom and is situated just outside of the original site of the town. Champasak now lends its name to the southern most province of Laos, the capital of the province is Pakse, about 40 km from the original Champasak township.

Photos courtesy of the treehouse

Schools in

Roadside belts

Donut world arrives

I give this shop six months before closing

Some kind of bug

Not sure exactly what type of crustacean this is, I just know that they are bigger than what we would call bugs at home. Regardless of what they are called, they are exceptionally tasty

Chili seedlings

Not feather dusters

For some reason I thought these things for sale on the side of the road were for dusting. Apparently they are for dried flower arrangements of the fluorescent kind.

Wet markets

Mobile plastics sale

There is actually a bicycle under this "shop" which helps moving the goods, unfortunately I can only be pushed, not ridden