Incidents of Travel

In autumn 99 I took a long trip to Asia.
I bought a digital camera just before leaving, a Sony Mavica-91, and had a lot of fun with it along the way.

Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Trekking the Kali Gandaki

Northern Vietnam

Southern Vietnam

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Me in a window of the old Malla palace of Keshav Narayan Chowk, Patan.

Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

I spent about a month in Nepal, mostly in the Kathmandu valley.

My friend Raj Khadka had just moved back to Kathmandu after many years in the U.S. I stayed with him and his mother. My visit coincided with Dasain, the most important annual family-oriented Hindu festival.

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Raj and Friends	>>>	>
Temple of Pashupatinath	>>>	>
Patan and Nagarjun	>>>	>
Bakhtipur	>>>	>
Around Kathmandu	>>>	>

Trekking the valley of the Kali Gandaki, Nepal

Late in October I took a ten-day trek down the spectacular western side of the Annapurna Circuit, in the company of a Nepali guide/porter.

A few months later the 14-year-old 17th Karmapa, an eminent lama, traveled the same route after escaping from Tibet through the Mustang district to the north.

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Kagbeni to Jharkot	>>>	>
Mukhtinath	>>>	>
Tukuche	>>>	>

Sunset on Nilgiri North (m 7061), from Tukuche.

Northern Vietnam

I spent most of November and December in Vietnam, staying with my college friend Lynel Long and her family in Hanoi. Side trips included kayaking in Ha Long Bay and a visit to Sa Pa, a town in the far north largely populated by ethnic minorities.

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Long Family	>>>	>
Ha Noi	>>>	>
Sa Pa	>>>	>
Ha Long & Perfume Pagoda	>>>	>
Buet Thap Pagoda	>>>	>

Tay mother in the hills near Sa Pa, close to the Chinese border.

Southern Vietnam

I spent about a week in the Mekong delta, accompanying Population Council researchers on a field trip to a remote rural commune. I also visited the famous wartime tunnel complex at Cu Chi, and the nearby Holy See of an unusual religion indigenous to Vietnam, Caodaism.

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Tra Vinh province	>>>	>
Ngoc Bien Commune	>>>	>
Binh Ha Phoc island	>>>	>
Mekong	>>>	>
Cu Chi Tunnels & Cao Dai temple	>>>	>

Woman making roof thatching with strips of water coconut, Mekong delta

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