The universal art of sign language

Since communication through words, reading, or writing is pretty much impossible here, we’ve mastered the ability to use sign language to communicate. We stick to restaurants that either have pictures on the menus, or where we can see the food being cooked. (pretty much it’s all different variations of meat, veggies and LOTS of rice.). When traveling by taxi, we can’t get anywhere without a map. We get in the cab and point to where we want to go on the map.