Business Trip Asia in June
Business Trip Asia in June
Thursday 11th June - Sunday 05th July 2009
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| 16:40:24 The big Pagoda in Yangoon by night. | 08:57:56 Tropical storms are pretty bad, look at the results... | 09:58:37 People riding the bus (yes the bus is the truck) |
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| 09:59:51 And people carrying stuff around the city. | 10:00:55 Nice one! In the middle of the street with bare feet. | 10:33:59 More means of transportation. |
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| 10:47:32 Colonial buildings everywhere | 11:54:12 And very old cars too... | 12:09:02 typical everyday scene in Myanmar |
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| 12:14:02 Nice stolen portrait... | 12:17:10 they were selling something... not sure what though.. | 08:18:25 Bikes are everywhere in Yangoon. |
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| 08:20:47 Want some? | 08:21:13 More bus action :D | 08:27:14 Another stolen moment of life in Yangoon... |
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| 08:56:29 Monks are also everywhere! | 08:58:38 Local fast food chainstore! | 08:58:45 And waiters are also dressing in the local ways. |
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| 09:15:22 Fresh coconuts maybe? | 09:19:30 More colonial architecture. | 09:22:34 A shop near one of the temples. |
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| 09:23:30 Government offices. | 09:29:48 Lady is sleeping on the JOB!! (tobacconist)... | 09:32:24 A sign in Yangoon. |
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| 09:34:30 More "modern" and residential area... | 10:50:18 Going to the main pagoda, called Shwedagon. | 10:52:50 Inside you have to remove the shoes and walk up a very long corridor. |
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| 10:53:19 And there are a lot of statues too. | 10:55:20 First part of the corridor. Also full of shops. | 11:01:24 Clearly it had to start raining!! :( |
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| 11:05:35 But I didn't let that stop me and went through the pouring rain anyways! | 11:05:44 The main Pagoda, the whole dome is coated in gold leaves. | 11:05:53 I told you it was raining a lot, I had to roll up my trousers too... |
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| 11:06:04 Unfortunately she covered her face, it would have been a great picture! | 11:06:19 Rooftops at Shwedagon. | 11:09:56 Again the main pagoda with some clear sky. |
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| 11:10:13 The architecture is very similar to what you get in Thailand, but here is much bigger and quite impressive... | 11:11:36 Pagoda and other chimneys.. | 11:11:44 The walk is aroung the central Pagoda, there are four entrances/exits to the site. |
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| 11:12:52 Some side temples. | 11:14:31 With a bit of sun it would have been marvellous... | 11:14:40 Elephants!! |
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| 11:15:02 Guy praying. | 11:15:20 the pgaoda again. | 11:16:05 Apparently in Mandalay there is a temple that it's compeltely white. Like these small pagodas here. |
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| 11:16:17 Local lady collecting thrash I presume... | 11:17:11 That lighting effect there is quite of a turn down because everything looks so old and that certainly isn't. Oh well... | 10:00:46 More chimneys. |
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| 11:17:52 Details... | 11:20:21 Local version of going to church I guess! | 11:23:33 Walking down towards the exit. |
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| 11:31:50 The exit. | 11:31:56 Monks on the street. | 11:34:41 Entrance to some important palace. |
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| 11:35:16 Running a business here can be hard... | 11:35:32 Waiting for the bus. | 11:35:54 Look at how old is it! There are some very old cars around Yangoon. |
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| 11:36:53 Trying to squeeze inside the bus/truck... | 11:38:30 House.. | 11:38:53 Loved the colour effect here! |
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| 11:39:29 They are quite poor to be honest... Some places are really run down. | 11:40:13 Or like here... | 11:50:01 More temples |
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| 11:50:18 This one was all shiny, as if it was made of silver. | 11:55:30 A local small shrine. | 11:56:32 It's a shame because the full size picture is blurred, but I loved this shot. Comments are not needed... |
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| 09:40:09 Local market action. | 12:06:03 And again. | 12:06:11 More local Market. |
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| 12:06:45 Colonial houses come from the English occupation. | 12:07:04 Some vendors have very little to offer... | 12:07:43 Like this guy... |
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| 12:08:10 Better, mangoes! | 09:39:51 Selling fried up stuff... | 02:44:57 Rooftops of Yangon. |
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| 03:06:58 Some signs | 03:07:11 And military patrolling of course! | 12:44:08 MALAYSIA - The house of my distributor... Impressive. |
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| 12:44:20 MALAYSIA - And his bonsai collection | 12:44:37 MALAYSIA - More bonsai collection | 12:44:50 MALAYSIA - More bonsai collection |
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| 12:45:02 MALAYSIA - More bonsai collection | 12:45:12 MALAYSIA - More bonsai collection | 07:42:35 INDONESIA - Police checks all the entrances of modern and richer places to prevent terrorist attacks. |
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| 10:01:47 INDONESIA - My hotel | 10:07:02 INDONESIA - Orchids. | 11:55:38 INDONESIA - The Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta. Impressive. |
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| 11:55:48 INDONESIA - Every side and part of the mosque has a kabalistic meaning to do either with Qur'an or Indonesia. | 11:57:03 INDONESIA - The main part of the mosque, the heart of Islamic credo is summarized in those three golden bits. | 12:02:41 INDONESIA - Drum used to call people to prayers. |
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| 12:02:50 INDONESIA - Another mean of calling. | 12:03:40 INDONESIA - BISMILLAH means "in the name of God" and apparently is written there... | 12:04:36 INDONESIA - Detail of the Drum. |
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| 12:04:52 INDONESIA - More of that. | 12:05:07 INDONESIA - The mosque can have up to 150.000 people INSIDE it's premises. | 12:06:16 INDONESIA - The Minaret where the Muezzin calls the people to the parayers. |
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| 12:16:51 INDONESIA - Outside the mosque. | 12:16:55 INDONESIA - Istiqlal mosque is the THRID biggest mosque in the world, after Mecca and Medina of course. | 12:17:10 INDONESIA - Right in front of the mosque, literally 10 meters away there is the biggest cathedral in Indonesia! :D |
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| 12:19:04 INDONESIA - Inside the cathedral | 12:20:06 INDONESIA - More inside shots at the cathedral. | 12:31:37 INDONESIA - Three on a moped, kid without helmet, but apparently to my clients this is normal, I have seen up to FOUR people with no helmet, but he told me that it can go easily up to SIX... |
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| 13:20:07 INDONESIA - Another face of Indonesia, the rich weddings.. | 13:20:52 INDONESIA - And more of that. | 02:13:36 INDONESIA - Leaving to Hong Kong early in the morning. |
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| 02:14:53 INDONESIA - Ready to start the day. | 16:10:51 HONG KONG - Temple Street restaurant! | 16:11:02 HONG KONG - Ok the subject is BROCCOLI, but it's nicely presented... |
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| 10:00:44 HONG KONG - Some live shells | 15:55:47 HONG KONG - The weather was SO BLOODY HUMID that the lenses of my camera got really foggy due to condense... | 15:59:54 HONG KONG - Nevertheless some shots are nice! :D |
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| 16:05:23 HONG KONG - A lonely bench... | 10:00:45 HONG KONG - And a very bright red sign. | 16:14:12 HONG KONG - My usual experiments with exposure timing... |
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| 08:59:38 SHANGHAI - I THINK it's the TV station here... :P | 09:11:37 SHANGHAI - Lina referred to that building as the BOTTLE OPENER BUILDING... | 09:11:52 SHANGHAI - More Shanghai action. |
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| 13:04:44 SHANGHAI - I found that this sign was a bit bad really... I mean the face there is a little sad and it actually means that the kitchens are not ALL that great... Oh well. | 12:40:12 SHANGHAI - A fake plastic tree.. | 02:44:09 KYOTO - Main station. |
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| 02:44:33 KYOTO - Kids gathering for the day out.. Nice! |
