This is the street right in front of my Guest House... in the heart of the local market. A street always full of people where shops and stands were all cramped together in the little space available... sometimes was difficult understand where one shop was ending and the other was starting.

For a Buddhist Monk, the debate is a crucial aspect of his own curriculum. It's used to sharpen their critical skills and test their ability to explain and debate various teachings. The monks train periodically on debating and is an effective means of expanding the mind, increasing mental sharpness, developing analytical capacity, and gaining internal clarity.

In a small village of huts nearby Luang Prabang the women weave using these old mechanisms to prepare souvenirs for the tourists.

...city in permanent construction... literally every 100m there is a work in progress, or like in this case, a "NOT work in progress"

This picture was taken on a sidewalk of the old district in Hanoi city. If you can't afford to open a shop, you can work on the street.

The most impressive aspect of the Golden Temple is the fact of being able to provide free meals 24 hours on 24, every day of the year since more than 400 years! Thanks to the help of hundreds of workers and hundreds of volunteers, 100,000 meals are prepared each day (200,000 on the weekend), 500 every 10 minutes, served free and unlimited to everyone that comes here.