Business Trip around Asia
Business Trip around Asia
3rd March - 27th March 2009
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| 11:03:26 In Thailand the King is always present... sometimes too much!! | 11:36:32 Selling stuff on the street... | 13:50:56 Downtown Bangkok |
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| 16:18:08 Fountain by night! | 16:19:05 Some more... | 16:19:28 And angain! |
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| 05:36:02 I hope you can read the sing below "NORATY PUBLIC"... .:D | 07:00:13 Though I do not know their name, these fruits are great! | 07:40:26 Typical Thai wooden house, belonging to one of my clients... |
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| 07:41:08 Window... | 07:42:36 Here we go! Orchid N.1 | 07:43:12 Orchid N.2 |
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| 07:43:56 Orchid N.3 | 07:44:15 Orchid N.4 | 07:45:26 Front bit of the garden... |
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| 07:45:56 Beautiful fluvial flowers, dunno the name... | 07:51:36 A pier over the swamp near the house... | 07:52:09 Well it's a NICE swamp! |
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| 07:52:26 More of that flower... | 07:53:06 Little cat on the pier! | 07:53:19 zooming in... |
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| 08:04:03 Wooden chairs! | 08:05:37 The stairs that lead to the upper floors! | 08:07:43 The upper court of the house... grand!! |
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| 08:09:24 The studio, quite beautiful! | 13:00:22 Typical Thai scene, here we are outside Bangkok.... | 13:01:15 And again, everyday life in Thailand... |
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| 13:34:51 Night food market!! | 13:35:58 Those curries look marvellous!! | 13:36:24 More fruit and vegs.. |
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| 13:40:55 And again. | 13:41:42 Those things are actually quite smelly... but they taste nice! | 13:42:02 More fruity shots, notice the typical coconut cut here in Thailand, the coconuts are next to the sugar cane on the right... |
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| 14:40:54 While eating and ELEPHANT came along... | 14:41:07 More elephant action. | 05:43:25 Typical Thai boat, they sail all along the river and canals in Bangkok. |
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| 05:45:51 Closeup of the flower chains that are set on the front part of the boat. | 05:55:55 Some Thai people on the boat. | 05:58:18 Along the river you get to see very rich places and also very poor ones... |
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| 06:00:20 And again... | 06:06:36 A tuk-tuk loaded with flowers! | 06:11:34 Getting into the flower and vegetable market! |
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| 06:14:32 Vegetables all over the palce! | 06:18:27 And of course flowers (the place is called flower market)... | 06:18:52 Though blurred I kept this picture... |
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| 06:19:27 Ice for refrigeration (it was bloody hot even if we were in March) | 06:21:56 Don't know the name of this flower, but they use it a lot in their necklaces and decorations. | 06:23:36 Assorted vegetables. |
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| 06:23:51 More of that action. | 06:25:39 Making the necklaces. | 06:26:34 I loved those buds... |
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| 06:29:31 Here are some examples of fresh flowers made into a necklace... | 06:39:58 Not sure what he sells... it seems baked bamboo marrow or something like that... | 06:49:01 Getting into Little India in Bangkok. |
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| 06:49:17 Good way to carry textiles!! | 06:54:00 Traffic at midday... | 06:54:13 And some people can sleep under the heat and noise... |
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| 06:54:57 Selling sweet stuff. | 06:55:11 Like this one, dried fruits. | 06:55:42 First time to see biscuits and crackers in a TIN CAN! |
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| 06:56:37 This place is a pharmacy (me thinks) | 06:58:13 Buttons! | 06:59:01 Selling strawberries, there is also what I think it is some sort of powdered sugar... |
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| 07:02:59 Again, that must be some tree marrow that is grilled... like the guy above... | 07:03:32 Getting closer to China Town. | 07:12:22 Meat on a stick vendor! |
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| 07:27:44 China Town and some plastic (with people eating)... | 07:29:59 Of course the streets are terribly narrow, but people still want to go by moped! | 07:32:49 When you say a "branded scooter" |
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| 07:36:59 Dog. | 07:39:24 Not creating some bomb or anything. He's actually making iceicles. | 07:43:24 Oh nice! |
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| 07:43:34 Close up! | 07:47:36 I have never seen so many cashewnuts in the same place! | 07:48:53 Typical fish vendor, in the middle of the street, with millions of cars driving very close in the blistering heat of the day... how good can this fish be? |
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| 07:49:05 Well it certainly looks quite nice... | 07:49:20 But is the look enough?! | 07:49:32 Shrimps? |
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| 07:49:48 Ahhh nice presentation! | 07:53:16 More strawberries vendor... | 07:53:49 This stew looks quite yummy actually... :P |
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| 08:15:28 Going back on the boat, more random people | 08:16:25 Though it looks old, it actually belongs to some Hyatt hotel... :P | 09:42:29 Food vendors in the center of Bangkok. |
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| 09:45:58 Well I guess it's self explanatory... | 09:55:26 Talking of PINK PUSSY.... | 09:56:08 They were quite nice.. .:D |
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| 10:02:02 This is one of the most famous shrines in Bangkok, and it's surrounded by shops and the street... | 10:02:11 More of that... | 10:02:24 Mmmmm she didn't like me taking pictures at her! |
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| 10:53:09 CHINA - The Forbidden Palace! | 10:54:08 We all know this guy... | 10:55:19 Chinese totem in the inner court. |
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| 10:59:53 The forbidden city.. | 11:00:58 The FORBIDDEN CITY, was very forbidden to me as well as it closed right before I arrived... :( | 11:01:07 External tower set... |
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| 11:03:52 Soldiers marching... | 11:05:10 FIREEEEEE!!!! | 11:06:44 The details of the rooftop are quite splendid... |
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| 11:09:01 Ahhhh nice! | 11:09:40 Flags at Tin.An-Min square... | 11:11:37 Mao! |
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| 11:16:20 China is here!! | 11:17:43 They look like ONU soliders but instead the are Red Army ones... | 11:21:27 This is the entrance to the Royal Gardens. |
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| 11:22:07 PRC Flag! | 11:28:35 The forbidden city from the center of Tie-an-Min square. | 11:29:35 Monument to the people in Tien-an-min |
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| 11:31:12 More of that. | 11:31:19 There are soldiers everywhere... | 11:31:32 Flags... |
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| 11:31:45 And again, unfortunately I did not manage to get the effect that I wanted, but it was quite nice to see them... | 11:33:07 Oh wait... A FLAG! | 11:35:29 More soliders... |
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| 11:35:37 Here I got bold and I started taking pictures at them... | 11:39:14 Monument to the Chinese people. | 11:39:24 Some details. |
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| 11:39:35 More details... | 11:40:17 Here he was natural, smiling to something... but... | 11:40:27 but he realized that I was about to take a picture and changed attitude. :D |
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| 11:45:19 Secret service police maybe?!? | 11:53:55 This is China... there are people that clean the gutter of the subway passage... everyone has a job if they want it... | 12:06:21 Bridge over the weeping willows.. |
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| 11:24:55 This is Shanghai copy market! :D | 11:24:59 It's like any other super-duper commercial center... :P | 11:37:16 Kites and the setting sun... |
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| 12:17:58 Sculptures... | 08:40:46 KOREA - A view from the hotel, this is actually a brothel... | 18:37:14 JAPAN - In Kyoto I had a glimpse of Japanese beauty with this small garden outside a place where we went to chill out... |
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| 02:57:29 Queuing for Pachinko in Shinjuku early in the morning... | 02:57:46 Checking the road work, I loved the colours on this man... | 03:14:08 Some details near Meiji Jingu.. |
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| 03:14:51 More details... | 03:24:45 And again... | 03:28:00 This one is not that great... |
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| 03:29:00 But this one came out almost perfect! :D | 03:34:47 I am specializing in taking pictures at the Kimono girls... | 03:35:27 More kimono. |
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| 03:41:05 This is going to be one of the new wallpapers for my Mac desktop.. | 03:41:28 There was also a wedding... :P | 05:31:04 Shinjuku sign, is all broken and looks pretty bad... a metaphor for Japan? |
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| 05:31:12 Nice one! :D | 06:50:28 Magnolia | 06:51:05 Another wallpaper picture here? |
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| 06:51:31 More magnolia tree.. | 06:52:35 This tree is quite rare to me, first time to see something like that... | 06:53:24 These are not the world famous cherry blossoms. They are plum flowers. |
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| 06:53:40 More blossoms... | 06:54:38 Close up to tha strange flower... | 06:55:23 More plum flowers... |
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| 07:13:11 Trees and reflections on the water... how relaxing... | 07:15:23 Have a guess! | 07:16:42 This is the tree from distance, quite beautiful! |
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| 07:21:21 Don't know what this flower is... .:P | 07:21:45 But it's pretty!! | 07:29:01 What is that?!? |
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| 07:30:06 Woooooowwwww, I wonder if it is man-made or nature thought about it itself! | 07:30:10 Wow really beautiful! | 07:32:36 Nice little bird... |
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| 07:33:15 Here fishing... | 07:33:39 Left side | 07:34:23 Right Side... A POSER!! |
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| 07:50:31 Bicicles! | 08:02:25 Times square at Shinjuku... | 08:02:31 Times square at Shinjuku IInd round... |
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| 02:03:44 On Sunday from my hotel window I could see the start of the Tokyo Matathon! | 02:12:36 And go!!! | 02:12:53 30000 people are a LOT.... |
Friday 27th March 2009