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=0=| This is another temple that we passed in the water tour. Below is another temple that was built right on the water front. Next to it is a gas station right on the water. This is an Esso station which was one of many old names for Exxon (now Exxon / Mobile ) in years past. |
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| Many section along the Kong were not so developed as shown here. Also shown here is a traditional family boat which is pushed along with poles A more wealthy family would be about the same width but twice as long and powered with a gasoline motor (and they would go much faster).The water buses also had gasoline motors, but they were much larger and did not move goes as fast. Sometimes we would see kids being taken to school in their school uniforms and this could be a dad taking his little girl to school. Also, the father seems to be wearing a sarong. For guys the sarong only needs to cover from the waist down (on women it would cover much more). In this case, he has tied the sarong up between his legs so that it was a lot like short pants. |
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| This is a tug boat pulling a couple of fully loaded rice barges. They are so heavily loaded that you really can't see much of the barges. Below are a picture of a partially loaded barge and a couple of unloaded barge. They really do seem to load the barges to the limit. |
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| There were also larger boats. This appears to be a fishing boat though there would also be ocean going freighters as well. |
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| The last stop was an area with several monoments or stupas. This one was right on the water and had a really large corn cob shaped tower which was about five stories tall with the view from the water shown here. In the next picture below is a closer view of the same tower and you can see that there are stairs that you can take about two thirds up the tower. The stairs are really steep as you can see with the steps about six inches deep (not enough to put your whole foot on straight) and about eighteen inches high. They were really hard to climb up, but they were really dreadful to come down (when you no longer had a choice) being so steep and without railings and such. The next picture below is of the very top. |
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| The tower was quite impressive. It was covered with shiny glazed pastel piles with incredible detail, especially when you consider the size of the tower. This was the last stop on the water tour.... Before we went on the tour a van came by to pick us up at the hotel and then went by a few other hotels picking up other people. However, on the way home we were a little aggravated as they stopped at a 'factory outlet' which had free cokes and souvenirs for sale. We had been turned off by factory outlets in Hawaii when they turned out to be overpriced souvenir shops. The tour stopped for twenty minutes, but we were ready to go after five minutes. What to do? Later we asked several people in the hotel and around where there was a market district with several little stores with souvenirs, but each time they would happily say, "No problem, I set you up with factory outlet that has van and will pick you up for no charge" which was not what we wanted. However, Barbara having majored in Library Science suggested we try the Yellow Pages. I pooh poohed the idea, but when we asked it turned out that they had one (go figure) in English with several pages of souvenirs. We found a couple of areas that had several shops and went there and found much better prices than elsewhere. |
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