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After floating around the floating market, we docked and walked around Cai Rang's market on land. This flower vendor looks out over her Tet flower offering.Read about our journey from Saigon to Phnom Penh on the Mekong.
The week before Vietnamese New Year (Tet) brought a gigantic flower market to the park near our hotel. Flowers are essential to celebrating and welcoming in the new year. These orchids were just screaming out to be bought - how could you have a bad year with these in your house? Read about Tet festivities in Saigon.
Flowers of all colors and sizes on sale at My Tho's Tet flower market. Read about our journey from Saigon to Phnom Penh on the Mekong.
As we were walking through the Saigon flower markets on a Saturday morning, we came across large groups of students on field trips. They made our morning - waving, screaming hallo! and laughing contagiously each time we tried to say hello back to them in Vietnamese.Read about Tet festivities in Saigon.
The old parliament in Almaty is decked out for Constitution Day. As one friend joked, it should be called Victory Day, as in the president's victory over the constitution. He changed the constitution so that he can hold office for life and has an almost 90% control of parliament. Read more about our experiences in Almaty and the Tian Shan Mountains.
Songkran, Thailand's New Year, is celebrated with water - and lots of it. In Krabi, pick-up trucks packed with people and barrels of water drive, seeking to cleanse (read: soak) passersby. No one is safe. Warm water is refreshing and welcome, but the iced variety shocks and stings!Our guest house in Krabi had buckets of water and ice out all day so its staff and the farangs (foreigners) could get into the action.www.uncorneredmarket.com/2007/04/andaman-beach-scene/
We were fortunate to be in HCMC right before the Vietnamese (and Chinese) lunar new year, welcoming the turn of the pig this time around. Pigs of all sizes and styles adorned the city, complementing the flowers and other new year decorations. Read more about Saigon's preparation for Tet.
Carnations are plentiful in central and southern Vietnam, preceding Tet (Vietnamese New Year).Read more about Hoi An, Vietnam.
A family moment at the Georgian Independence Day parade in Tbilisi.Read more about Tbilisi and our visit to Georgia.
Georgia's Independence Day Festivities
Georgian Independence Day Parade on May 26, 2007 along Rustaveli Avenue.
