Random images of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar
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A Bangkok city bus. This one is hot bus or non-airconditioned bus most of the office workers and blue colour workers use to travel around. There are plans to replace all public buses with air-conditioned ones. One driver and one conductor usually run each bus.


The baby of the lady conductor taking nap on the engine of the bus. Or it maybe that the driver and conductor are husband and wife, and since they both have to work and probably there is no one staying at home, the baby also has to come along. This is a scene of an ordinary peoples' life in a city.


Another street hawker at another rainy night. In the rain, behind the overhead walkway, and at the road intersection the food vendor was patiently waiting for a late night customer to show up suddenly to buy a hot meal. Bangkok roads are seldom deserted day and night. So there is always a possibility that you would meet someone on the road in the middle of a wet night.


If you are lazy enough to walk to a store 3 blocks away, chances are if you know the right time you can always wait for the mobile convenient store to come right in front of your apartment. It carries a good number of different items any household would need. A large collection of plastic containers, cleaning and storage stuff, kitchen stuff, even plastic furniture are for sale.


We are now in Luang Prabang, the heritage town of northern Laos on the Mekong river bank. The town is famous for its architecture heavily influenced by designs of French colonial period. Here is a typical low rise building on a narrow street dotted withb cute looking lamp posts. Luang Prabang is one of most visited places in Laos; and thus government and local organizations are struggling to make sure long lasting of local traditions and architectural values.


A Buddhist temple in Luang Prabang.


Back in Thailand, there are not many hill-top pagodas within the town and city limits. Here is one in Mae Hong Son. Right in the middle of small but expanding northern Thailand town, the temple - Wat Doi Kong Mu sits on top of Doi Kong Mu hill. From the hilltop you can see the lake, lakeside temple, the airport and much of the city area.


Lake side pagoda Wat Chong Kham in Mae Hong Son at night. Almost all temples in Mae Hong Son are built in Shan/Myanmar architecture. Obvious design feature that is different from other Thai temples is the umbrella at the top of zedi.


Most visitors to Thailand come for sea, sun, relaxation, entertainment, adventure, food and maybe business and or teaching English. However there are also museums all over the country. Each province has provincial museum usually in the capital plus others mostly at architecturally, historically or culturally important sites. National parks and old cities can also be said as open museums. Here in this photo is a museum next to one of many Khmer ancient temples in lower north-eastern Thailand.

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Photos from Myanmar (Burma) | Old and rare Myanmar photos from 1923 to 1960 | Rural scenes of Myanmar in hand paintings