I really enjoyed your story. You seem to have a slightly masochistic streak :) Or a sense of moderate adventurousness. Walking through the streets without a plan is definitely mine. I have had similar experiences and the fact that you have to eat, but either passing the right places in the hope of finding something later on also led me to the brink of starvation. LOL. You've apparently never been to the Boy Scouts? My son just got home from a three-week scout trip. I almost didn't recognize him, because the 15 kilos of backpack luggage and the constant movement made him thin! He's tanned like a foreigner.

Thank you for these really extraordinary pictures and your travel report. I was particularly impressed by the overgrown and completely deserted areas. But also the Botanical Garden. What I would give to be able to talk to Buddhist monks.

I didn't understand about the tub plug :)