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Mysore markets



Silly as it sounds, one of the reasons I chose to visit Mysore was Devaraja Market, which, though touristy and full of some seriously pushy salespeople, is still a really fun place to wander around taking photos. Julian the Rickshaw Guy also took me to anther, smaller market whose name I never caught, so many of the photos are actually from there as well.













The next day, I went from Mysore to Bangalore to Mumbai, where I somehow made an insanely tight connection in an insanely huge airport without any incident, to London, where they lost my bag (I always loose my bag!), to meet up with Iain in Aberdeen. Like I said earlier, I wish I'd had more time in India because ten days is not nearly enough, but I'm mainly just happy to have gotten a tiny glimpse of such a vast (and vastly interesting) place.  Even though I was exhausted and sick of lugging a huge backpack around, I had a great time. Without hopefully sounding too greedy, I hope I can go back someday and see more of it. 

Mekong Delta Biketrip, Day Two: Highway One and a really big bridge to Ben Tre



Inauspicious beginnings: Highway One, which may be my least favorite road in Vietnam, and that includes Hanoi streets known only to me as "Intersection of Doom" and "the Punishment Light." 

Once Iain was well enough (and once we'd seen enough exceptionally bad movies in our hotel room), we picked up our motorbikes from the train station and set off through unrelenting traffic along Highway One and then over a massively steep suspension bridge to Ben Tre. The driving wasn't particularly scenic, but I did get a pretty impressive farmer tan and bragging rights to having driven in the HCMC traffic that so traumatized me when I first got here almost a year ago.


The coolest thing about this bridge is that Wikipedia doesn't think it exists yet. Not a particularly good picture, but you wouldn't really want to linger on this bridge either. 

Fortunately, Ben Tre itself was a nice town, with a busy riverfront and a street market stocked with fresh fruit and Tet decorations. 






The Ben Tre market from the opposite riverbank.

This guy saw me taking the above photo, and whistled and waved at us till I took a photo of him from his 2nd story vantage point. 

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