Sri Lankan fried vegetable noodles

This is my another photo of Sri Lankan fried vege noodles. One of my favorite Sri Lankan food. I took this spicy vege noodles at a cozy seaside restaurant in Unawatuna, Sri Lanka. When I was in Sri Lanka, I took fried noodles at least once a week as lunch. I think Sri Lankan fried noodles are kinda different from other countries. In Sri Lanka, each noodles are cut into one to five centimeters long to eat with your fingers. By the way, this post happened to be my 100th post about Sri Lanka. I miss Sri Lanka so much.

The Three Pyramids in the hazy distance

The photo shows a view of Cairo, Egypt from the Saladin Citadel of Cairo on Mokattam hill. The Citadel of Cairo is famous for the Mosque of Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Alabaster Mosque), and is also famous for its panoramic views of the city with lovely breezes. I enjoyed a hazy vision of the three Pyramids in Giza as well. It's a little too hazy, but you can see the Great Pyramids on my photo. Before I went to Egypt, I didn't know that the three Pyramids were visible from Cairo, but they were visible from the Citadel, and from the Cairo Tower.

My ears popped

The photo shows a view of Las Vegas from 108th floor. I guess you will understand where I was from my explanation so far. Yep. I was on the 108th floor of the Stratosphere Tower. The floor was 855 feet above the Vegas strip. When I took the elevator to the 108th floor, my ears popped obviously. First, I walked all the way around the floor and took this photo. What a view. I put my foot as well as a memory. Thinking about it now, my foot looked like Goliath who was going to destroy the miniature world spreading out below.

Take a leaf out of someone's book

This is my very first photo which I took in Vientiane, Laos. I've been to Laos twice and the photo shows my hotel room of my first visit to Laos. I knew there was land route to get to Laos from Thailand, but for the first visit, I chose Thai Airways flight to get there. After the short-haul flight, I caught a cab to the hotel and took a picture of my room. My second photo of Laos was Nam Phou; the fountain which is located in the heart of Vientiane. My third photo of Laos was a view of Thailand looked over the Mekong river. That means I followed a common tourist trails during my first few hours in Laos.

The Swiss Alps capped with snow

The photo shows a view of the Swiss Alps capped with snow. I took this photo at the top of mount Pilatus in Lucerne, Switzerland. At that moment I felt like I was surrounding by the snowy Swiss Alps. The experience was just awesome. Before Switzerland, before mount Pilatus, I've been to Nepal and I've seen the Himalayas this close to me, but I saw the Himalayas from Pokhara and I didn't go to the top of a mountain, so the view from the top of mount Pilatus was much different. I got there by a cable car and a gondola. I can't climb up so high on foot.

Caged elephant

I took this photo in Colombo, Sri Lanka. After a sightseeing by tuk-tuk, I backed to my hotel and went to a swim up bar for cold beer. In that morning I had a huge brekkie and I was still stuffed around lunch time, so I just needed some beer. The cold one. I got a table at the swim up bar then started drinking. After a while I noticed that there was a huge caged elephant right over there. On the same day, I saw an elephant at a temple in Colombo city, but the photo shows a poolside accessory. It was so well-made that it can be hard to tell that it was actually not real.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature

I took this photo in Wangdue Phodrang, Bhutan. There were a lot of cows. I don't have so many opportunities to see cows this close to me, so it was kinda interesting experience. I've heard that some people visit Bhutan to see takins or yaks, but from my point of view, cows were ubiquitous, but the others were not. I saw a few takins in Thimphu, but I couldn't see yaks during my stay in Bhutan. A Bhutanese locals told me that yaks live in cold places, so during summer they go to a higher altitude to avoid the hot temperature. Bhutan is located at the end of the Himalayas, so they know the drill. Self-preservation is the first law of nature is a really good proverb.

UL887 BKK - CMB; Nov 2010

The photo shows an in-flight meal of SriLankan Airlines flight UL887 Bangkok, Thailand to Colombo, Sri Lanka. It was a sort of evening flight, so the in-flight meal was actually my dinner. I've been to Sri Lanka six times and chose SriLankan Airlines twice. The other four were Thai Airways International. Women flight attendants of SriLankan Airlines wore a fluttery dress looked like a peacock. I think it had strong effect to make passengers feel an exotic mood. I was attracted to that Sri Lankan style so much.

Have a huge brekkie in Germany

This is a view of St. Goar (a.k.a. Sankt Goar), Germany. The town is located in the Central Rhine Valley, so the river on the photo is actually the Rhine river. A very beautiful and relaxing place. When I traveled around Germany, I truly enjoyed German brekkie almost every morning. Their ham & sausage products were truly nice and tasted vary. I still remember that at an all-you-can-eat buffet table I wondered what to eat coz there were a wide variety of ham and sausages and all of them looked so yummy. I wish I had stomach more than one.

Save the best for last

I took this photo in Florence, Italy when I was enjoying half-day walking tour with a local guide. The half-day tour covered almost every must-sees in Florence and the tour's final destination was the Duomo (a.k.a. Florence Cathedral or Brunelleschi's dome). It was like the best had been saved for last or kind of thing. The Duomo was visible from some places in the city, but the guide put the Duomo on hold. Half the fun was getting there, though. I just couldn't wait to take photos and started to take photos like this at a very early stage.

24/7

The photo shows a train timetable. I took this photo at Malmö Central Station in Sweden. It was written in three languages; Swedish, English, and German. According to the timetable, trains run twenty four seven; Once every 20 minutes during the day and once an hour at night. Nice. After taking this photo, I caught a train to Copenhagen Central Station in Denmark. It was about a 30-minute train ride to get to neighboring country. The train crossed the famous Öresund Bridge over the Öresund strait. The bridge is known as the longest railway bridge in Europe.

Far from enough

This is my another photo of Lucerne post office. I loved this beautiful building, so I took one more photo from different angle. Come to think of it, Switzerland is one of the European countries, but their currency is not Euro, it's Swiss Franc. So, I needed to exchange my money for Swiss Franc not only once. I mean I didn't know how much money did I need in Switzerland, so I exchanged 40 bucks at the beginning, but it was far from enough. During my first beer in Switzerland, I learned that quickly and changed my mind.

White elephant

I took this photo in Vientiane, Laos. I found this cute white elephant statue on the way to Patuxai from my hotel. Patuxai was visible from there, but first, I took a photo of the elephant statue. I really love elephants. They're so cute. If there are cloned miniature elephants sized like this, I definitely want to keep one as a pet. Anyway, after taking a photo of the elephant statue, I visited Patuxai. It can be spelled Patousai and it's also known as Anousawari. One of the most popular must-sees in Vientiane, Laos. A view from the top of Patuxai was fantastic.

Wind turbine

I took this photo somewhere on the road in between Bremen and Berlin, Germany. I'm not sure exactly where it was, but German landscape from the coach windows dotted with a lot of wind turbines, so I'd say the photo shows one of the ubiquitous sceneries of Germany in my memory. Beautiful. Generally, I love solo-tiro, but when I took this photo I was taking part in the 10-day bus tour in Germany. People on the coach were from all walks of life. They were from the States, the UK, New Zealand, India, Thailand and so on. Our guide was a Dutch guy who speaks fluent English. It was so much fun to travel with them and talk to them and learn from them.