Getting from one place to another in SE Asia offers the traveler a number of different and colorful options: besides flying (an option we only used a few times, owing to cost), there are of course buses, trains, and boats and—for shorter trips—things like rikshaws, tuk-tuks, motos, and the like.Shown here are a handful of those means of transport, along with some of the people doing the transporting as well...
Looking through the windshield of a long-distance bus in eastern Thailand...
Green Thai countryside, from the window of our southbound train (Chiang Mai to Ayuthaya):
The airport at Phonsavan, Laos. (Yes, that's a vegetable garden on the premises.)
And at that same airport...weighing our backpacks, the good ol' fashioned way:
And Karen on her moto, driven by Nak, at Angkor...
Lao women on a motorcycle... a common sight in Laos and other parts of SE Asia:
THAT'S ONE BIG BIKE!
We saw this cute little boy (at the Roluos Group of ruins at Angkor), and couldn't resist snapping a shot of him:
And finally, a tuk-tuk driver in Chiang Mai, taking a rest from the daily grind...
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