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05/15/06 // Blog Post from Lake Plitvice // Lake Plitvice // Croatia
Blue Milk It’s hard to understand, standing on the banks of such crystalline, cerulean lakes, whose dazzling colors come from the mineral rich silt runoff of glaciers, that the largest European conflict since world war two began here, at Like Plitvice Croatia. But indeed this is where the first shots were fired on Easter Sunday in 1991 and the first casualty was … continue reading » Topics: Europe, Karst, Lakes, Mountains, Nature, River, Round The World Trip, War, Waterfalls
02/14/06 // Blog Post from Savannakhet Guesthouse // Savannakhet // Laos (PDR)
Everyday the Fourteenth If the water had been high enough we could have simply headed downstream from Konglor village and followed the Hin Bun River all the way to a small village where we could walk to route 13, the major north south artery of Laos. But the water level was too low to leave from Konglor so we set off at 6 … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Goodbyes, Holidays, Rivers, Round The World Trip, Waterfalls
01/19/06 // Blog Post from Tat Kung Si Waterfalls // Luang Prabang // Laos (PDR)
Hymn of the Big Wheel A misty haze settles over the Mekong River Valley every evening; it begins to gather as an almost imperceptible smoke around sundown, the mountains begin to look farther away, less distinct and then it builds through the night reaching its apex somewhere in the “Bible black predawn” as Jeff Tweedy put it. The fog burns off by midmorning, noon at … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Mekong River, Rivers, Round The World Trip, Tourism, Waterfalls