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Cotonou is the largest city in Benin. The centre of Cotonou has some modern highrises that are a contrast to the traditional African architecture we visited. Our tour leader mentioned that we had some extra time and took us to an enjoyable crafts market - Centre de Promotion de l'Artisanat.
Construction of new lower level A3 at Butser nearing completion. The old road still in use up above. Taken in 1982.
My photo number 001284
For a while, I've wanted to capture the buildings along New Canterbury Road at Petersham so what do I do, frame a bus in the scene so it obscures most of the structures ...
30 January 2011 - Sydney's Inner West
I loved seeing this, made my heart feel warm that children are always carried, on a shoulder, across a belly, holding hands.....so close to a loving warm body! and men and women carry their children, I hardly saw a pram, such a distant way of carrying little ones.
The ugly and later to be pulled down Portsdown Park and view over Portsmouth - circa 1979
My photo number 001236
Picture scanned from my uncles slide collection. Since he visited HKG very often, I can not tell the year these pictures were taken. I figure around 1950.
Look closely..how many pairs of eyes are on you? And WTF is that girl in white doing with her hand? =) Haha..
Camera: Yashica FX-3
Lens: Yashica 50mm 1:2 ML
Film: Mitsubishi MX 100 (courtesy of Azhar)
Location: Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur
Taken on a streetshot outing with anuar perlu bertenang & izwan, 12/4/09.
Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, NC, at dusk, looking south, 1961. From Carolina Power and Light (CP&L) Photograph Collection, North Carolina State Archives.
Photos taken during a 17 day independent hostel/backpacking tour through Turkey including stops in Istanbul, Goreme/Cappadocia Region, and Antalya.
For the stories behind these photos please visit virtualwayfarer.com. All photos were taken by Alex Berger.
There is a famous street in Bangkok called Khao San Road which is known as the "backpacker ghetto". It has cheap rooms, cheap food, lots of bars and hence, lots of backpackers.
Before we arrived in Bangkok for the first time, people said "Go see Khao San, but don't stay there". Being you can't get there by train and Bangkok traffic is a joke, we didn't make it to Khao San Rd. until today (our 3rd visit to Bangkok).
I'm really glad we're not staying there. Something that I've learned about my travel style is that I don't want to be surrounded by other travelers. Seeing other westerners in a secluded temple in Kyoto takes something away from the experience for me. I'd prefer to feel like the only foreigner in a place that no one can find. When I look at Khao San road, I see the opposite of that. It's wall-to-wall backpackers, strutting around with their day-old dreadlocks, sunburned cheeks and too-cool-for-school attitudes. Though we carry a backpack, it is abundantly clear to us that we don't identify with the average 20 year old unkept-and-proud backpacker. It seems that the badge of honor among backpackers is to appear that your lodging does not have a shower. It also seems that Khao San road is as much about travel fashion and looking cool for other backpackers than anything else, and I'm over it. And yes, I am perhaps jealous that I'm not that young anymore and realize that I sound even older.
If I were 20, though, I'd love Khao San Rd. and would be right there with them. But as a 32 year old traveler with a backpack, I can't help but wonder if the Bangkok they experience happens without the company of 15 other people wearing a "Same Same But Different" t-shirt.