The theme letter for our travel pics this week is T, for Thailand For our final image in this series, it’s the Kanchanaburi War Cemetary. Kanchanaburi is a town of 23,000 people, about 120km from Bangkok. It’s main ‘claim to fame’, at least where tourists are concerned, is its location on the River Kwai – and…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is T, for Thailand For Saturday, its Buddha’s Burned Bones! Well, strictly speaking, it’s a reliquary that supposedly contains ashes of the Buddha, at a Wat, or temple, in Phuket. Wat Chalong is the most significant of nearly 30 Wats, or temples, on the island and in the Grand…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is T, for Thailand. For Friday, it’s the Bridge over the River Kwai. But not the only one. In the famous film of the same name, a structure is destroyed at a place called Tha Ma Kham, five kilometres from the Thai town of Kanchanaburi. In fact, there were…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is T, for Thailand. For Thursday, it’s a street-side food vendor setting up his mobile food-trike at Phuket, the tourist island in the Andaman sea that attracts so many Aussies – and northern Europeans. We were last there in 2007, and there was still an enormous amount of…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is T, for Thailand Wednesday’s photo is of a marketplace that could have been taken anywhere in Thailand – and in fact, in any one of a number of locations across the Asia-Pacific. This particular one was at Karon Plaza, a collection of stalls on the waterfront…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is T, for Thailand Today is Shirley’s 57th birthday – and in honour of that, I present this thai orchid, taken on the island of Phuket. Tropical Asia is home to the most species of orchid – up to 300 – and everywhere we went in Thailand, we…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is T, for Thailand Lets start with a parish church – or the Thai Buddhist equivalent! Karon Beach is a beachside village about 10km from Patong, the tourist heart of Phuket. It’s largely a quiet backwater, especially compared to the Bangla Road and Paradise Complex areas of…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. We featured a photo earlier this week of the Flower Dome at Gardens By The Bay – but to wrap us up, it’s the Cloud Forest, next door. It’s a two acre garden, with cool moist conditions like those in tropical mountain regions between…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. For Saturday, we are on board a bumboat, near Clarke Quay. Bumboats are small, ferry-like vessels which are a tourist attraction in Singapore.. the name comes from the Dutch boomschuit, or tree boat. Originally boats that ferried people and supplies to and…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. Singapore’s built architecture is fascinating … there are pockets of colonial pomp, and stretches of classic Singapore rich people’s housing and brutalist public housing blocks. And then there are the newest structures – aspirational, eschewing all the classic straight lines of the…
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