Four Canoes Hotel

... yellow in the sky as the sun sets in the distance ..... I shot S-21 barbwire .....here and there, and when I'm shooting this three or four canoes by the water, a bunch of kids come out of those canoes ! ... they live there ! , so I got some shots of ...

... only be described as the 'most novel way to top yourself when traveling in S. E. Asia.' Basically the 11 of us piled into four canoes decked out with speed boat engines, our luggage crammed in front of us, as we whizzed over the shallow, rocky Mekong ...

... Day 3 was a day in the Delta...A brief boat ride and we were dropped on the Mokoro Island. The Mokoro is the wooden dugout canoes used to travel the inner reaches of the Delta. A hot day in the Sun but got some good shots of Elephant crossing the Delta. ...

... much in the way of affordable places to stay so I had budgeted for it, but not that much.  My next stop was another similar hotel called the L'Amazonia that wanted 109 Euros, and $170 for some shitdump was just out of the question.  By now I was ...

... a shallow lake that was filled with men and women wading up to their shoulders and fishing. There were also scores of men in canoes paddling to and fro under the bridge supports doing their business. It was pretty interesting. Since we had some time to ...

... with choc-chip cookies. As we depart for a private piece of land in the rain forest down by a creek where we jump into canoes and paddle upstream while our BBQ'd lunch is prepared. The crystal clear river contains Jungle Perch and turtles. Steak, chicken, ...

... outside town to board our canoes. The river is low so we have to cart all our gear down, a long way, to the water. Four canoes! Four people plus driver to a canoe and our home for 7/8 hours. We were in the last canoe with Martin and Ali, our bags plus ...

... if it was a good river for rafting or canoeing, he said yeah. and later on, whilst we were having dinner in our hotel by the river, we saw four canoes, going down the river. Day 2: Nadi Bazar (930m) - Ghermu (1130m) We had breakfast at 7.30am and walked ...

... early morning, sand creeping into everything. Spent my last night in Niger in a town called Ayorou, staying in a once four star hotel that had been sacrificed to the elements: swimming pool filled with rocks, giant catering kitchen inch-deep in dust, ...

... -long Maoist insurgency, when poachers were not policed. About 7am we walk down to the Rapti River and hop into two dugout canoes with flat bottoms, and quite stable.  Have a lovely cruise down the pretty, clear river, with green banks surrounded by ...

... for some of the largest Crocs we are likely to see in Africa - thankfully we hadn't seen any from the wafer thin canoes! These monsters were, in some cases, over 4m long!! The next day we crossed into Namibia and headed towards the enormous Etosha ...

... sold for cash but traded among the Kuna. Sometimes you would see naked children far out in the ocean in the dug out canoes fishing with nets. Other food crops including rice, yams, yucca, bananas and pineapples are grown in plots on the mainland a short ...

... have preferred another menu item and certainly something with far less small bones. The group pair up and settle in small canoes, each with a lady dressed in traditional Vietnamese costume to act as a paddler. The canoes travel through one of the last ...

... the heart of BC's ranching country, in a stunning location on the edge of a lake. I addition to riding there were kayaks and canoes to play with - not that they received much attention after six hours in the saddle each day. The ranch had a really relaxed ...

... then down South through a long channel, inside a group of islands. Lots of stilt villages, fishing boats, water taxis, outrigger sailing canoes. Past a couple of high islands, then swing out to sea past a sandspit with a few palms and stilt houses. Can ...

... hard job in the heat. When we enter the jungle, we find an interesting winding channel between trees and lagoons, with locals in canoes setting out nets, and using boats for transport. They object to photos, but we manage to get a few long shots. ...

... . The Captain would notify the locals of his presence with the boat horn and this would usually trigger the launching of canoes from the shoreline. The furious paddling was presumably being done by a good friend or relative and once the intercept was ...

... trying to swim against the flow of the river, or nesting on the banks. children rushed to the shores to wave to us, and canoes passed by on occasion, some with huge piles of sand on them, weighing the boats down until the sides were almost level with the ...

... of people in boats had amassed in the spot that it had submerged.  Our boat pulled up to all of the villagers in their canoes, and offered them $20 to try and $40 if they could find it.  A few people showed that they definitely wanted at least ...

... tourist boats sailing between the islands, ladies dressed in wonderfully coloured dresses beckoning us over to their islands.... large reed canoes, not too dissimilar to an Egyptian Queen’s Nile Boat, sail by with tourists having a wee lake cruise. ...

... journal but ended up watching the fishing community for several hours. The sun rose from behind the mountains. The men in their canoes had small handheld scoop paddles and were catching fish with their hands and spears, it was incredible to watch. I woke ...