Travel & Life Vignettes
Con Dao is the name of a group of 16 islands off the southern coast of Vietnam. Here we find ourselves landing on the main island of Con Son, the only inhabited one. Names are…
We arrived in Ho Chi Min City on a Sunday for a short four-day stay. It had been almost 15 years since we’d last visited. Since then, new buildings have appeared and boulevards have been…
We left Danang as the sun was setting, on a short one-hour Vietnam Airlines flight to Nha Trang. We arrived after dark, so all the photographer got to shoot was the inside of the Cam…
We flew into Danang, Vietnam, on a direct flight from Kuala Lumpur, our final approach taking us over the rice fields and houses on the edge of the city. Unfortunately, flying into Danang meant we…
The flight into Kuala Lumpur from Yogyakarta was a pleasantly short 2½ hours. The photographer snapped a photo as we approached from the south. Malaysia is the world’s second largest palm oil producer, and over…
On a Sunday morning, we took the Argo Dwipangga train from Gambir station in Jakarta to Yogyakarta. The station was hectic on the outside but calmer on the inside. We got our e-boarding passes in…
We flew from a Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Jakarta on Singapore Airlines. We had to connect through Singapore, but it was the only real option that wasn’t a red eye. Besides, we like both Singapore…
We hired a car and driver for seven days and left Colombo for Southernmost Sri Lanka. Once we made it through the city traffic and got on the E001 toll expressway, it was easy going.…
Our ride to Colombo, Sri Lanka, was on China Eastern Airlines. Leaving Hong Kong, we were bused out to the plane. It seemed odd that the new Hong Kong International Airport, which could well be…
On one of our days in Hong Kong, we decided to take the Turbojet Ferry to Macau. This is not it. This is the taxi we took to get to the ferry dock. This is…