In travel guides they write about it in the way they write about the Taj Mahal. On the streets you can buy fried grasshoppers. They showed me how to eat them, you tear off the wings and put the whole insect in your mouth. We took an Indian thali instead. Travelling takes a lot of energy, it makes me forget everything else.
Nothing seems to leave a factory in a brand new state.
The coloured lights on the ceiling of the bus are real Asian, as are the lights on the side of big trucks. We visited the Royal Palace. It demanded more paperwork to enter this building than to pass customs. It is a beautiful building but the thought that it is rebuilt using forced labour makes me feel uneasy. On the way to the palace we had a chat with a former policeman.