Bangkok – Thailand (again)

Rambutri road. welcome to the wet season. and this is only pre-monsoon

visiting the royal palace and emerald buddha temple. they give you appropriate attire for visiting the royal grounds. adorable

a golden warrior posing for the shot

the glittering temples owe their glitter to the thousands of colored mirror pieces that cover them

restoring the wall paintings

i cant compete with the superfly, stiletto-strutting thai babes, no way

ps.check out that ghastly flip-flop tan line on my foot!!

where my parents and two of my brothers once lived during the sixties (i think it is anyway? according to my fathers directions and disguised beneath more than 40 years of development and construction in the area Soi Tong Lo)

Phnom Penh – Cambodia

vibrant, authentic and phenomenal phnom penh

when power slips into the wrong hands

rules laid out by Pol Pot’s regime at the Tuol Sleng former-high school-turned-security prison-and-now-genocidal museum

i think most people should already know what happened here, and most importantly why

phnom penh’s lively market, radiating out in all directions from the central dome

just outside the market

one of the school grounds of Scott’s Cambodian Children’s Fund (www.cambodiachildrensfund.org) 

here, the girls doing some yoga, although it was more like hand-yoga…stretching back their hands at dangerous-looking angles to develop their traditional Khmer dance skills

loud, all over the place, and bursting with love. girls, we miss u so much!!

scott, the youngest grandpa i’ve ever met, and the princesses

the girls who tried teaching me some traditional dance moves and naughty so-so-phan (sorry for the mispelling!) there in the middle!!!! big kisses for u all….

all these children were previously living in and off of a huge garbage dump on the northwestern edge of the city. this another facility, the day-care. as usual they lunged at us with open arms, hungry for love and playing and fun

sweet little jailbirds =)

this is their coolest grandpa ever

i worked up a major sweat dancing to the latest r&b with, i-kid-u-not, some of the most prodigiously stylish little dancers in all of Cambodia!

saying goodbye… =(

and goodbye to this fantastic city. the royal palace behind an average-number-of-persons ridden motorbike

the riverside

Temples of Angkor – Cambodia

cambodia’s pride and glory: Ankor Wat, Angkor’s best preserved wat. as far as religious monuments go, it doesn’t get any better, or bigger, than this…

building began in the 12th century under (and for) king Suryavarman II as the capital city, and continued in the form of reconstruction (after being sacked by enemies) and preservation through the 14th and 15th centuries as it converted from Hindu to Buddhist.

i, king of khmer

the temples of Angkor number about a thousand. here, the popular and impressive Angkor Thom, the one everyone recognizes as being gradually digested by nature

oops, a rayban ad, how did that get here??

bruno got a little carried away

i mean he was really into it