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On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  January 26, 20185:00 am| 21 Comments

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

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Good Morning All,

This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.

So please, speak up and share some of your adventures and travel news here, and submit your pictures using our speedy, secure form. You can submit up to 7 pictures at a time, with an overall description and one for each picture.

You can, of course, send an email with pictures if the form gives you trouble, or if you are trying to submit something special, like a zipped archive or a movie. If your pictures are already hosted online, then please email the links with your descriptions.

For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

 

Today, finally some pictures from valued commenter Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes. I have more to post and hope he sends more. We’re using a big submission that won’t publish to debug and then you’ll see their glory.

So we overnighted on a boat in Halong Bay, in the Gulf of Tonkin

The views were stunning

Taken on 2018-01-09

Halong Bay, Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam

These are Karst pillars, basically big limestone structures

 

More Vietnam!

The monkeys of Ha Long Bay

Taken on 2018-01-10

Ha Long Bay, Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam

So there are colonies of monkeys living in the Karst structures of the bay. They have no shame – the alpha male and alpha female were going at it for our amusement (I didn’t video that – felt perverted). Anyway, he’s not much of a cuddler.

 

Thank you so much Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes, do send us more when you can.

 

 

 

Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.

 

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21Comments

  1. 1.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    January 26, 2018 at 5:05 am

    Oh, I have a LOT more. Hoi An, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City from the Rex rooftop, Cu Chi tunnels, Siem Reap, Angkor Wat, Phnom Penh, rice paddies and elephants and Hmong villages and monks in Laos…

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    rikyrah

    January 26, 2018 at 5:25 am

    The pictures are beautiful ?
    Please send more

  3. 3.

    satby

    January 26, 2018 at 5:30 am

    Just popping in to say hi from Bangkok, I made it! Very hot and humid (of course), more than I remember from when I was last in Thailand. Most of my group is Canadian, and very sympathetically commiserating with me about Our National Embarrassment.

  4. 4.

    satby

    January 26, 2018 at 5:32 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Yes, looking forward to more!

    @rikyrah: hey lady! Good morning!

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    ThresherK

    January 26, 2018 at 5:33 am

    Niiice.

    Also, is that type of primate known to live in a group? I don’t know my monkeys. If not a cuddler I hope the guys at least do housework and don’t call it “babysitting” when they are watching their own offspring.

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    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    January 26, 2018 at 5:41 am

    @ThresherK:

    My recollection was that they were a type of macaque. They were pretty much all up in each other’s faces, so it looked to be a clan grouping.

    Alpha dude not only doesn’t cuddle, he’s pretty much an asshole out for himself….

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    Mary G

    January 26, 2018 at 5:52 am

    @satby: Have fun and take pictures for me to virtually see the world.

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: the bay is very atmospheric and I’m looking forward to Angkor Way in particular.

  8. 8.

    Quinerly

    January 26, 2018 at 6:12 am

    Beautiful pictures today!…..and all days. Thanks.

  9. 9.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    January 26, 2018 at 6:16 am

    @Mary G:

    Moving through the bay video – rocks are close.Going through Halong Bay

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    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    January 26, 2018 at 6:18 am

    Video of Monkeys. They’re noisy.

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    Baud

    January 26, 2018 at 6:28 am

    Very nice.

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    raven

    January 26, 2018 at 6:38 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: They also have been known to try to fuck you in the ear. Nasty little critters.

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    debbie

    January 26, 2018 at 7:00 am

    Beautiful cliffs!

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    JPL

    January 26, 2018 at 7:21 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Thank you for the pictures, and thanks goes to Alain for setting this up. It’s our own travelogue.

  15. 15.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    January 26, 2018 at 7:34 am

    @raven:

    Yeah, they didn’t seem to be real discriminate.

  16. 16.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    January 26, 2018 at 7:35 am

    @raven:

    Oh, and there were bats in the Cu Chi tunnels.

  17. 17.

    J R in WV

    January 26, 2018 at 7:50 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    @raven:Oh, and there were bats in the Cu Chi tunnels.

    Of course there were !!!

  18. 18.

    Ben Cisco

    January 26, 2018 at 7:50 am

    Wow. Good stuff.

  19. 19.

    raven

    January 26, 2018 at 8:27 am

    @J R in WV: Back in the day Charlie would tie pit vipers on a string and hang them from the ceiling of the tunnels, nasty shit.

  20. 20.

    laura

    January 26, 2018 at 9:31 am

    Beautiful pictures, just lovely, but needs MOAR poco.

  21. 21.

    DesertFriar

    January 26, 2018 at 10:31 am

    @Quinerly:

    Hope your time in the City of the Crosses went well.

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