Ten Brand Spanking New Photographs! (Of The Neighborhood)

I was a little braver today, and ventured a little farther away from the hotel. I was rewarded with some pretty fantastic photos of the local market (if I do say so myself). I also took a tour of Dictrict 1 of the city with my supervisor, but unfortunately I did not realize how many pictures I had taken by that point, and was only able to take one additional picture before my memory was full. I'm sure I will have more opportunities at a later date.







The hat at the bottom of this photo belongs to a woman who was standing in front of me when I took the picture. It sort of gives you an idea of the height difference.


I love the disgruntled man in the corner here. I was trying to take the picture while his back was turned, but he looked back right as I pressed the button.




This is a closeup of a pagoda-like building I posted here previously. Wes Thompson informed me that it was not a hotel, as I had presumed, but a school. Most schools here, apparently, are designed to look like pagodas.




When the busy streets are too overwhelming, I usually duck into an alleyway. They are everywhere, and form an almost labyrinthine system of travel between the main roads. Lots of families eat outside in the alley, and you still get a few people on motorbikes coming through, but it's all much more relaxed, and occasionally you'll find an area that's completely deserted. Some of the alleys are even sort of picturesque.


Gardens seem to be really popular here. You see a lot of them out on little balconies.


This was the first and only picture I was able to take on my tour of the city, of a Buddhist shrine right outside the temple. I did inquire before taking the picture, and my supervisor told me it was okay. While in the temple I was able to witness a Buddhist ceremony. I'm not sure I understood quite what the occasion was, but there was a lot of drumming and chanting and it was really neat.