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Laos

Welcome to Laos
Changing money at the border
$20 in Kip
Luang Prabang - A World Heritage city with loads of temples...
Temple Detail
















where I spent most of my time with drunken art students...
playing songs...

and arm wrestling...
or at the hilltop temple...
with the curious monks...







Looking down on Luang Prabang
Sunset over the Mekong
Friends
A day at the waterfall...


Walking through the filth muck...
for the good view
More temples...

Temple Detail



Off for a week by motorbike...
What I didn't bring...
Through the north east...
exploring hill tribe villages...
5 kids per adult







beautiful vistas...



and bad roads...


To the 'Plain of Jars'...
Jars
Jars
Guesthouse enroute




a hot spring...
where I spent the night in a local hut
clouds in the valley


...he was a great man...
to the limestone mountains near Vietnam




through caves where they hid during 'the war'





Vang Vien





Self Portrait

And finally on to Vientiene to straighten out my visa to Vietnam...
Where I spent a couple days playing chess with Andy of www.heisenbug.org
witnessing a pathetic festival...
the annual boat races...

more temples...


Looking down on Vientiene


some big main attraction...




and the town fountain (not a terribly thrilling city)