Stay at Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn is a world-wide chain, the current hotel is a massive structure. Bangkok is known for its tourist industry and the city and...
Subway Ride, Cultural Show
It was 7 PM by the time we succeeded in reserving the tickets and prepared ourselves for the evening. We had high end tickets and the...
Street Scenes in Bangkok, Images
One of the interesting sites that attracted my attention in the city was the communal outdoor eating spread out over miles on the...
The Grand Palace
Bangkok is a well spread out city. We had obtained the city maps and the briefings for a possible tour. Sightseeing is a process of...
Touring Bangkok
To get up lonely in a large room in a foreign hotel is a different experience. I had slept late, so lingered in bed a bit longer and got...
Theravada Nuns' Religious Service
More than fifty years ago, during the turbulent sixties, we had some discussion of the Orissa's maritime trade. Those were the days of...
Ayutthia Park
All the sheets and the dhurries were folded back and each of the participants was given back apacket with his or her name on it. The...
Ayutthia (Ayodhya!) Palace
As we approached our new destination, I saw elephants with people mounted strolling on the side of the road. There was a whole...
Arrival Siem Reap
Hindu cosmology proposes cyclicity. Early animists did observe that everything repeats and hence human life also should repeat. In such...
On to the monuments
The main road traffic in Siem Reap is like a medium level town in India. People are on bicycles, motorcycles, and three-wheelers. Cars...
