Why the sight of monks texting, or using bluetooths or some other form of mass technology always seems, if not incongruous, at least noteworthy, I don’t exactly know. Probably because of the juxtaposition of ancient (monks) with modern (cell phones, bluetooths, etc.). Monks use tuk tuks, of course, a form of cultural custom and mechanical [...]
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July 12, 2008
Bangkok by water
The khlong (canal) taxis used to be the prime way to get around Bangkok, but they’ve unfortunately dwindled to, as far as we can tell, one main route that cuts through the city from east to west. The pilots hot dog the long taxi boats down dirty, narrow canals between rotting wooden [...]
