On the flight over I read The Holy Man by Susan Trott. Plane coming in for a landing - not shot at, green rice paddies. Transportation vehicles use horns not brakes-the bigger vehicle the greater the use of the horn. Two way traffic in city but when one lane is clear of traffic, the other lane expands to fill the road. Quick looks, never a stare.
Street sweepers out at night using palm leaf brooms.
The streets are clean. Kids still openly urinate in gutters. Kids periodically mob us asking us to buy post cards and maps. Two wire electrical systems running along buildings. Dragonflies by the thousands in the treetops.