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ASIA
China Beijing, Chengdu, Kunming, Xian, Guilin, Guangzhou, Shenzen, Shanghai, Qingdao

India Kerala, the backwaters, spice merchants, Cochin, computer school, fishermen, markets, houseboats, traffic, food, festivals, elephants

Indonesia

Bali – temples, Ubud, rice terraces
Java -Yokjakarta market, street food, making and performance of Wayang
Kulit shadow puppets; rice cultivation, terraces, planting; batiks; Cerebon – women at prayer after the Haj; Borobudor Temple
Sulawesi - Tanatoraja houses and funeral
Sumatra - mosques, orangutangs
Indonesian foods, markeys

Laos Vientiane
Luang Prabang (monks, temples Xieng Thong)
Minority hill tribes in the north (Akha, Meo, Hmong, Tai)
rice cultivation, street food, markets

Myranmar/Burma Rangoon (Yangon) Schwedegon pagoda, Pegu (Bago), monks, monasteries, temples, monks in lines with their rice bowls, Pagan temples

Thailand markets, street food - scorpions, spiders, floating market; hill tribes in the north (Akha)

Tibet Potala Palace, Jokhan, forbidden images of the Dalai Lama, market, landscapes, sky burial, monks

Vietnam

Dalat: market
Hanoi: Lake Ho Kiem, waterpuppet performance , Buddhist funeral, morning exercise
Halong Bay
Ho Chi Minh City /Saigon: markets, street food, day care, children with birth defects because of agent orange
Hué: Thien Mu Pagoda, Imperial City, historical sites
My Tho (Mekong Delta), markets, fishing boats
Nha Trang: market
Tay Ninh – Cao Dai Sect mother church
The north: Son La and the mountains, ethnic minorities Tai and Hmong, rice fields


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