Lo-Fi Travel with Genevieve

30/08/2023

A day in Songkhla.

14/01/2023

FITO part 3

14/01/2023

FITO museum, part 2

14/01/2023

The FITO museum of traditional Vietnamese medicine in Ho Chi Minh City, part 1

28/12/2022

the 8th century Po Nagar Cham towers in Nha Trang, Vietnam

13/07/2022

In the side door and up the stairs at the 1902 Bang Kuhn Phrom palace . . . views are of the Rama VIII bridge and the Bank of Thailand

20/06/2022

One of my favorite ways to learn about a new place is to pop into a used bookstore and buy the oldest possible tour guides. Witness here: the smoking, modeling, racing, singing monkeys of the October 1988 Golden Mount Fair, Wat Saket’s most ~sanuk~ fundraiser. Photos by the late great Luca Invernizzi Tettoni #1988

10/06/2022

More faves from

10/06/2022

Journeying into red at Jim Thompson’s house

01/05/2022

Some favorite images from the 1783 mural of the at the , which is iver 2km long.

15/04/2022

Thai royal ladies, photographed between 1860 and 1910, showing the evolution of court dress under Western influence

14/04/2022

My favorite color plates from Cadière’s seminal 1919 work on Annamese decorative art, L’Art à Hué

07/03/2022

Favorites from the ao dai museum outside hcmc

06/03/2022

A peek inside Cholon’s Ba Thien Hau temple, built in 1760 by immigrants from Guangzhou and supposedly the oldest Taoist temple in HCMC.

26/02/2022

Some favorites from the Vietnamese History Museum in Saigon

09/02/2022

Happy 9,326,804,720th birthday to the Jade Emperor! 🎂🍾🍜🐅

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06/02/2022

An afternoon at the HCMC Museum of Fine Arts, a Gatsbyesque 1929 villa

01/02/2022

A peek inside 1961’s Independence Palace, Saigon.

24/12/2021

A peek inside Giac Lam pagoda, built in 1744. Dimly lit and packed with relics and ancestors, it inspires contemplation.

21/12/2021

Happy Birthday Jane Fonda! In a world of virtue signaling celebrities doing it for the photo ops and tax breaks, she's a real one.

"Deep systemic change on a scale that humankind has never seen before has to be accomplished and it's not like an election is going to end this for us." - Jane Fonda

21/12/2021

Built in 1939, Cholon’s Khánh Vân Nam Viện Đạo quán has a unique Bauhaus charm

08/12/2021

How to Curse Your Spiritual Enemy:
1. Visit Cholon’s Quan Am assembly hall, built by descendants of immigrants from Quanzhou in 1740.
2. Make it past the fastidious security guard.
3. Feed the Hu Ye (tiger god) a snack. He likes ham and steak.
4. Rip a picture or stomp a doll of your enemy in front of him.
5. Burn gold paper and incense to pay him.
6. Also burn an offering for the Bixie to protect you from revenge. She likes gold, silver, and jewels only tyvm!

08/12/2021

Some favorites from the ao dai museum outside HCMC

03/12/2021

A peek inside Cholon’s Teochew Guildhall. Built by immgrants from Chauzhou, China in 1819, the temple is famous for its woodwork. Guan Yu, a god of war, trade, and commerce, is worshipped here.

20/09/2021

A beautiful day for wedding photos at the Mua viewpoint

19/09/2021

The end of the day at a lotus farm in

25/08/2021

The tomb of Emperor Tu Duc, the last independent emperor of Vietnam. Though he lived here for the last 20 years of his life (ten years on either side of defeat by the French) he is not actually buried here. Fearing his body would be treated disrespectfully, he was buried in a secret location near Hue by 200 workers, who were then ambushed and murdered after completing the job, to keep the secret. His true burial site is still unknown.

21/08/2021

A few clandestine photos of An Dinh palace, the birthplace of the last emperor of Vietnam, where visitors aren’t allowed to take pictures . . . I think mostly because it is not in good condition. It was abandoned

19/08/2021

19/08/2021

The 1808 gate and 1714 stupa at Báo Quốc pagoda in Hue, one of Vietnam’s premier centers of Buddhist education since 1670

17/08/2021

The remains of the 1808 Temple of Literature in Hue. The names of 293 scholars are preserved here, but many are illegible due to being exposed to the elements for many years.

15/08/2021

Built in 1804, the Imperial City in Hue originally had 160 buildings. Most were destroyed in a 6 week battle between the Viet Minh and French in 1947; more were destroyed during the Tet Offensive in 1968. Today only 10 buildings remain and they aren’t in great repair.

13/08/2021

The Huyen Tran temple was built in 2007 to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the princess who brought 1000 square miles to Vietnam from Champa through marriage. A plaque there reads ‘some women’s problem’s must be solved by the nation, some national problem’s must be solved by women.’ Hmmm.

11/08/2021

A rainy afternoon at Hue’s Thien Mu pagoda, a Buddhist monastery since the 1600s and center for religious resistance in the ‘60s.

09/08/2021

Do these Cham sculptures have real personality or have I been socially isolated for too long?

06/08/2021

The Zone 5 military museum in Da Nang is still an active base . . . they let me take pictures of their old trophies but not their propaganda murals of Ho Chi Minh . . .

05/08/2021

Completed in 1593, the “Japanese Bridge” linking the old Japanese and Chinese neighborhoods of Hoi An is formally the ‘bridge to welcome visitors from afar’. 400 years later it’s still a hit with tourists, and the almost-rotten-fruit lady is as much of a fixture as the dog and monkey gods.

03/08/2021

The caves in Da Nang

01/08/2021

A rural grandpa’s kitchen in Da Nang

30/07/2021

Hanging around the Marble Mountains