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SE Asia tour: Cambodia Thailand Myanmar Viet Nam Hotels
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The Angkor Hotel in Siem Reap, Cambodia is very new and nice, as you can see below. The serpentine railings along the entrance drive are called balustrades and mimic similar ones at Angkor Wat. Note the Buddha image heads in the fountain.
Below are shots of our hotel room in Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand. Note the innovative use of kitchen-sink sprayer attached to toilet plumbing. This "feature" was common in many of our rooms in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. To each his own ;)
Sunset from the 8th-floor hotel room window:
Dave illustrates for Randy driving in the blizzard of '78 whilst sticking his head out the window to see where he is going:
Our hotel in Chiang Rai, in "The Golden Triangle" area at the junction of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar (nee Burma). Appropriately, the hotel is called "Golden Triangle Inn". The hotel's restaurant has an interesting "do as we say, not as we do" decorating theme, as it is populated with stolen hotel keys from all over Southeast Asia. Dave was tempted to steal his hotel key to room 404 because that number is the most common web error message (404 - not found).
Our hotel in Phrae, Thailand, the Nakorn Phrae, was hosting a youth leadership meeting related to the 100th anniversary of the Thai Princess Mother (mother of the King). Dave got pictures of the hubbub including a van carrying the bicycles of a team of young go-getters about to depart for 2 days of touring to commemorate the anniversary, and another van from one of the Thai state-run TV stations.
Dave also got some pictures of dinner at the hotel, starting with a picture of our friendly guide "Ya":
Dave didn't get pictures of the room itself, other than one picture of a hotel engineer doing a late-night tweak to get our air conditioner going again. Fortunately the engineer didn't have to climb outside the window for this particular repair, although another traveler on our tour reported monkey-like high-rise climbing by an engineer at that hotel earlier in the day fixing an air conditioner. Note our rooms were on the 8th floor. Also below, Lester and Nancy Hart check on Ida nursing husband David Hughes, who was under the weather.
Our place on the river Kwai, in Thailand, had lush gardens covering the grounds. Dave took pictures of the room instead. That Dave!
Dave was amused by the retro television set which could receive only 9 channels which had to be laboriously tuned using thumbwheels. Most other rooms at this hotel were able to receive 6 or 8 channels, but Dave and Brady were left with just three that were accessible to this non-cable-ready piece of history. Brady stayed up late writing verses of a song summarizing the group tour.
The Ha Long Bay 2 Hotel in Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam. Yes, why come up with another name? Just stick a number on the end :) This reminds Dave of the many hotels in the Angkor Wat area of Cambodia, every one of which had "Angkor" in their name. Next to the sink you can see the essential tools of the Hart brothers' digital photography, a voltage transformer and battery charger for the 4 NiMH AA's used in the Kodak DC290 camera.
On the table beyond the bed in the left photo below is a copy of Fortune magazine, which pushed Brady and Dave into the red "stuff to declare" line at customs entering Vietnam. "All printed material" must be declared at customs.
The bottle of drinking water on the left below was purchased from a store, the one on the right from a street vendor with a card table. To see and note: The bottle on the left is much clearer, has the proper La Vie label, French for life. The one on the right is entitled LeaVe. A cute double entendre. They are both labelled 1.5L. Note size difference. Both the clear shrink wrap and the lid ring stayed attached to the cap of the bottle on the right when unscrewed, meaning that it can be used and reused and still appear to have a safety seal.
The Chains First Eden Hotel in Ha Noi's old quarter had beautiful furniture and high ceilings.
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SE Asia tour: Cambodia Thailand Myanmar Viet Nam Hotels
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