Vacation Pics - post your own

[Raging Turtle]

Since a few people asked in another thread, here's some of the pics from my recent trip to Cambodia and Vietnam.  I took over 600 pictures (go digital camera!) so there's a LOT more than these few. 

The reason everyone and anyone comes to Camboida:  Ankor Wat




Inside the main complex (already up a story or two)




The view from the top




The temple of Bayon




And a close up - those faces are at least four feet tall each, and there were dozens. 




Rounding out the Big Three of the Ankor Wat area temples is Ta Prohm




The classic Ta Prohm picture




The Killing Fields Memorial - If you don't know the history of the Khmer Rouge, look it up.













On to Vietnam!  Here in Hanoi is the Mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh himself, where his body is still on display (and which I saw and was creepy). 




Halong Bay, somewhat southeast of Hanoi.  Thousands and thousands of little islands




Last one



If you guys like these, I've got several from a trip to the Philippines that I consider more impressive that I can put up.  I'd put them up but I'm too lazy to upload anymore right now.

Oh, and post your own pics!  Sharing is good     

[stray]

Beautiful, man (err...except the skulls). Never had the chance to go there, but I'm a quarter Cambodian myself. I'm surprised you didn't hit up Thailand though (I'm a quarter that too!).

Anyways, sorry, no pics. A vacation is long overdue.

[Raging Turtle]

I spent two days in Bangkok at the end of this trip (during the lunar new years!), have some crazy pics from that but they might be blackmail material.  Spent almost two weeks around the country the year before - Can you say Full Moon Party? 

[Samwise]

Stonehenge.


Notre Dame.


Geneva (post-riots)


Salzburg (as seen from the fortress)




This doesn't really count as a vacation pic since it's from my hometown, but it's pretty nonetheless.

[Strazos]

The first Rolls Royce to land in Normandy with the Allies.



Another shot of Notre Dame.


A shot of Paris from the highest point within the city.


National Assembly building in Paris.


ZOMG a DRAGON (in Eurodisney).I went for free.


Me at St. Peter's, Vatican, Rome.

Oh yes, I am hardcore.

[Signe]

I am so jealous of Raging Turtle.  I might have to hate him for a while... but in a pleasant way.

[Strazos]

And to think I almost had a chance to travel around China for 3 weeks.

Sigh.

[Signe]

And to think I almost had a chance to travel around China for 3 weeks.

Sigh.

You're still a boy!  There's no reason you can't go to China someday.  You have your whole life ahead of you.  Well, unless some mafia don murders you  or something.  Or you die from some painfullly disfiguring and horribly debilitating disease due to toxic waste.  Those sorts of things happen all the time in New Jersey.  Geez... we better get the hell out of here, Straz.  I say we go to China NOW!  Before it's too late!  RUN!

[Strazos]

Well, the problem is I have no idea when or if I will be able to go and see these places for myself.

That's probably why people bitched at me for "running around" when we were seeing shit.

They thought I was rushing.

I just wanted to make the time count.

[eldaec]

My last trip to Africa...


Cape Town






Entabeni Game Reserve - NE SA






Victoria Falls

[Signe]

Those are some really nice pics you guys took!  I'm impressed.

[WayAbvPar]

This thread officially fucking rules! I  vacation pics. Keep 'em coming!

[Viin]

Here's a couple of mine - none are that stellar.

Mexico, just south of Cancun:


Jamaica:


Panama Canal:


Costa Rica:


Costa Rica:


Costa Rica, poisonous frog:


Grand Caymans, cruise ship tours parking lot:

[Signe]

These really are some great pics!  I want to go everywhere everyone else has gone now.

[Strazos]

Of course you do, you live in New Jersey.


Of course, you actually came to live here voluntarily.

Sucker.

[MrHat]

This makes me wish I had a better camera.

[Krakrok]

Rockefeller House, NY


Lyndhurst Mansion, NY


North Shore Kauai, HI


Half Dome, Yosemite, CA


Half Dome, Yosemite, CA


North Dome, Yosemite, CA


North Dome, Yosemite, CA



Yellowstone





Bryce Canyon, UT

[eldaec]

This makes me wish I had a better camera.

http://www.pricerunner.com/photography/digital-cameras/223205/prices

GoGoGo SpendSpendSpend!

(Seriously, you can get some great deals on these - and probably better deals than the link above - now that the D30 is around taking the D20's original price point, only with no significant new features)

[eldaec]

Some pictures of Hong Kong to wake this thread back up with, and also because people from HK are crazy...

[Strazos]

Aww, no picture of the HK Stock Exchange building.

It's a very interesting one.

[Yegolev]

In a cave.  Ruby Falls.  Pretty cheesy.  Natural beauty isn't enough for the riff-raff, so they added colored lights and an orchestral soundtrack at the end.



Same day.  Rock City is less cheesy than I thought.

[Signe]

I don't know where you are but I love your Mickey Mouse t-shirt.  What a gigantic child you have! 

Kudos on the lovely wife!  She looks strong.

[Sky]

I love rocks. I hate when they whore up caves like that, but they all do it eventually.

[Yegolev]

Kudos on the lovely wife!  She looks strong.

Thank you, and she's not.  But she tries very hard.  You can PM/email me if you are curious.  I'm guessing you are not.  You remind me of her at times.

My son is 38 inches tall.  I don't know what that is in kilometers.

Both Ruby Falls and Rock City are just outside Knoxville, TN.

@Sky: These two attractions were total old-school tourist traps.  Still, I looked past the cheese and it wasn't bad.  I think there is some state-park action nearby, but I can't take these two there.  The waterfall inside Ruby Falls cave is actually impressive.  Too bad they assed it up with the lights and music.  There is a larger part of the cavern which hasn't been (that I can tell) been given the lightshow treatment, but they don't let people down there.

Rock City is cool but don't go into the fairy-tale-land part.

[bhodi]

Gorda baths down in the virgin islands... where I'd like to be right now.

[Sky]

One of our local caverns, Howe Caverns, has a great feature even if it's kinda odd. They made a 'pipe organ' by attaching little piston-thingies to different rock formations that were tuned to certain notes. It's pretty cool, but the place is totally whored out. It's a shame, it was a great cavern, I remember when I was a kid before it was really whored badly. Luray Caverns (in VA, iirc) had the 'world's only' stalactite organ...I guess the Howe version is a stalagmite, though it sure seems like a flow into stalactites to me.


The 'pipe organ'.

[Yegolev]

Yes, because I've never seen a real organ, it's great to know that someone has made one out of a one-of-a-kind natural formation for me.  I hope there's a T-shirt!

[Fabricated]

Lake Tahoe: Taken from the top of some mountain I had to ride a gondola to the top of. I'm acrophobic and it nearly killed me.


San Fran, 'Japantown':


San Fran:

[Sky]

From Monhegan Island, ME this summer.

[Samwise]

From September:

[Signe]

You guys take some nice photos.  I take terrible photos.  I try but they usually end up looking suspiciously like my thumb or my feet.

I think I have confused Yegolev with his son.  I'm terrible with age and size. 

[bhodi]

God, luray was cheesy as hell. I stopped there a few months ago. It's amazing how natural beauty can be destroyed by tourists; I saw all sorts of trash littering holes and the the stink of people was overly prevalent.

[Yegolev]

I think I have confused Yegolev with his son.  I'm terrible with age and size. 

You do know that midgets can have normal-sized children, right?

[Sky]

I think I have confused Yegolev with his son.

Don't worry, I got your quip.

God, luray was cheesy as hell. I stopped there a few months ago. It's amazing how natural beauty can be destroyed by tourists; I saw all sorts of trash littering holes and the the stink of people was overly prevalent.

It's been a decade since I was there, but I remember lots of the stalact/gmites were snapped off by tourists. People are savages.

[Yegolev]

I guess I did not get it.  Help, please.  I cannot stand being one of the outsiders.  I must belong.