Tag: People
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Singha
Singha Slender, fragile, strong. Over and above them you standbolt uprightconfidentmajestic. Singha. Photo of the week: Singha Beer Bar, Bangkok, Thailand 2019
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Fish meal pedicure
Fish meal pedicure Letting a shoal of hungry small fish nibble away dead skin from your feet and in addition having to pay for it! With free wifi as sweetener. Photos of the week: Massage parlour, China Town, Bangkok, Thailand 2019
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Amalgamation
Amalgamation A river – this side and that – shadows and lights fused in a nocturnal dream. Photo of the week: A restaurant and Wat Arun on two sides of the Chao Phraya River, Bangkok, Thailand 2019
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She herself(ie)
She herself(ie) She visited Wat Arun, the white plastered Buddhist tower inlaid with pieces of colourful porcelain. The monument has Hindu influences and its three levels have symbolic Buddhist significance. It glitters and shines, like she herself(ie) with her girlish phone. The people below her at the base are wandering through the realms of existence.…
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Tiptoeing toddler
Tiptoeing toddler It’s always lovely to see toddlers – human or animal – explore the world. With curiosity and playful candour they dare moving away ever further from their mother’s nest. Photo of the week: Wat Arun compound, Bangkok, Thailand 2019
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Beware pickpocket
Beware pickpocket Wat Pho is known for its reclining Buddha, an impressive statue measuring 46 meter in length from top to toe. The soles of his feet – 3 meter high and 4.5 meter long – are inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Photos of the week: Reclining Buddha, Wat Pho, Bangkok, Thailand 2019
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Jay Fai
Jay Fai The Queen of Thai street food. Instead of a crown a bonnet adorns her head and goggles protect her eyes from the inferno she creates in and around her wok. “This is my passion. And my art.” Michelin thought her worthy of a star. Photos of the week: Queen of Thai street food,…
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Queueing up
Queueing up Some street food stalls and restaurants in Bangkok are so popular that people don’t mind having to queue up for a meal of their choice. Just looking at the queues can fill me with joy. Photo of the week: Bangkok, Thailand 2019
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Lavishly adorned
Lavishly adorned After having met the school children of last week’s post one would not have imagined their mothers and grandmothers to look like this. But in the villages of the Brokpa (or Drokpa or Dards) along the Indus River in Ladakh just before it flows into Pakistan, these elaborately dressed up women are not…
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Comparing eyes
Comparing eyes It’s festival day. All school children have got new pencils. Even though we are in Dah, a remote Ladakhi village at the end of the road before the Pakistan border, we immediately recognize the inquisitive glance with which the one girl looks at the pencils of the other. Are hers bigger, more beautiful,…
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