Saturday, November 26, 2011

Week 48




THAILAND!



When we visited before we saw beautiful temples of gold. Now we want to visit this temple of white- Wat Rong Khun.




We'd take an elephant trek through the ruins of Kamphaeng Phet (from the 1300's).




We'd dance in the falling waters of Khlong Lan.




We'd go for a long-tail boat tour of the limestone needle islands.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Week 47


INDIA! The place where ALL of your senses come alive!


Our sense of hearing will love the music of 415 spoken languages and dialects, but will also embrace silence at the romantic Taj Mahal.




Even though we will miss Holi (the festival of colors), our sense of sight will find lots of color in sarees, the Sri Meenakshi Temple, the Ganges River...




Our sense of touch will be delighted with intricate henna tattoos on our hands, or feet, or faces.




Both our senses of smell and taste will savor curry, saffron, cumin, garam masala- yum!

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Week 46


CHINA again! (The south this time.)


We'd help out in the beautiful rice terraces, like this one in Guangxi.



We'd take a visit to Tibet and tour some of their monasteries.



We'd cruise the river in Yangshuo and see the breathtaking mountain peaks.



Of course, we'd have to visit some snuggly pandas too!

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Week 45


JAPAN!


We'd visit the beautiful Himeji (Heron) Castle.



We'd see how far we could hike up Mt. Fuji (too bad we'd miss the cherry blossoms).



We'd travel to Kyoto and check out as many temples as we could, such as the Kinkaku-ji.



We'd marvel at the fashions of the traditional Geishas in Kimonos...



... and the modern Harajuku girls in Anime Cosplay.