VISUAL AIDS!!!

Ohhhh heeeyyy -

I figured that VISUALS (photos / videos) were necessary in order to complement Lauren's blog entry. Lauren hasn't had time to upload her images yet, so these are just some of my photos - not the complete set. We'll be updating our facebook albulms regularly. NB: Also, the 'photo slideshow' on our blog only consists of a few photos from Thailand, and most of them are upside down / sideways. I'm trying to work on fixing / updating that ...we'll keep you posted on it's progress.

PHOTOS:
To view our photos from Thailand, Laos and Vietnam click on the links below to view the respective albulms: (NB: we haven't had time to include photo captions etc....but, soon we will!)

- Thailand
- Laos
- Vietnam

VIDEOS:
NB: I apologize in advance for my awkward commentary and shakey footage. Also, It was taking too long to upload each video onto this post, so I've made links to each video below (except for the 'car ride' video - for some reason it keeps on dissapearing after I download it to YouTube). Just click on the links and you will be taken the corressponding YouTube page.

Gibbon Experience:
1 - Me ziplining through the jungle. It is extremely awkward footage (of both myself and the scenery - since you have to tilt your head sideways to see it properly); however, it is still a pretty cool depiction of what the zipline experience was like.


2 - Me ziplining into our treehouse. Footage is rightside up, but the picture is kind of hazy since it was early in the morning.

3 - Lauren ziplining into our treehouse. This is right after I zipped in, so it is also kind of hazy since it is around 6am (we are coming back from an early morning 'monkey chase'. No joke. We rose before the sun to see if we could find and see Gibbons! Unfortunately, although we heard their calls, and we were very close, we did not actually spot them (even though all of the other groups did). This is the exact opposite view of the zipline than the video above. It's kind of cool to witness both perspectives.

4 - Can't go over it, can't go around it, must go THROUGH it! Our car ride on the way back from Gibbon to Huay Xai. We are driving through the river to get to the other side. No big deal. Slash, cars in this part of the world do not have seat belts....and, half the time you aren't even in the front part, but the trunk / pick - up is converted to hold passengers....this ride through the mountains of Laos was almost as interesting as the ziplining itself!


Slow Boat:
1 - We took a 2 day slow boat from Huay Xai, Laos into Luang Prabang, Laos (we overnighted in a town called Pak Beng, where there is only electricity from 6-10pm). The boat travels along the Mekong river, and it is quite a beautiful ride (although somewhat cramped and tiring). This is some footage of our boat trip.

Hope you enjoyed the visuals! I'm off to bed now since Lauren and I have to wake up at 5am to catch our bus to Cambodia....and, we're pretty tired: Last night we met up with 2 Dartmouth 05s (Will Hiltz and Willie Sun. Random? Yes. we didn't really know them, but were told that Will was living in HCMC and would be down for some company) and stayed up until 5am. It was fun. Needless to say, we, unfortunately, were in no shape to go on our 8am war tunnel tour, but we did make the afternoon half of it and visited the (Vietnam) War Musuem, the Royal Palace and HCMC's Notre Dame Cathedral.

Remember to always keep the hype in check and to keep it real....

Catch ya on the flip side,

JaX