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Laos { 41 images } Created 19 Nov 2013

Photos from Laos taken in March 2005.
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  • After one month passed in New Zealand we took the airplane to Bangkok, followed by three or for days in Chiang Mai, where i became sick due to the well working asian air cons. <br />
After my recovery we were driven to Houay Xay, the Lao border where we arranged a two day slow boat journey to Luang Prabang.
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  • In 2005, the two day journey with the longboat from Houay Xai too Luang Prabang, including an overnight at Pak Beng, was pretty uncomfortable: we had the choice between old unfixed wooden seats or inside the boat, lying, near the bad smelling and very noisy engine.
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  • While we arrived in Luang Prabang we were adressed by some funny tuk tuk drivers. We were very tired so we took the first one. The engine run very oddly and a couple of minutes later it was completely out of order. So we took the next tuk tuk driver who drove us to a nice guesthouse owned by a very strange guy who was pasting self-portraits with small price labels on the walls surrounding the reception... <br />
The monastery "Wat Xieng Thong" shown on the photo, is the most important monastery in Luang Prabang.
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  • The next morning i missed the wake up call to see the monks receiving alms. While i took the camera and run out of the guesthouse, the monks were already walking along the street.
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  • The morning collection of food, called "tak bat" is traditionally offered by the locals.
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  • The monks walk in a line, the oldest first.
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  • We made a short stop at Ban Xang Hai before we continued our boat tour to the Pak Ou caves. On the same boat we met a very nice couple, with we stayed together for the next days.
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  • Ban Xang Hai is better known in the travel guides as "Whisky village" where "Lao Lao" rice whisky is produced by the local people.
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  • Ban Xang Hai is located about 29km from Luang Prabang. Most of the tourists make a stop here before continuing their boat ride to the Pak Ou caves.
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  • Tree boys playing with marbles in a street.
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  • The lower Pak Ou caves, seen from the Mekong river. The caves are famous for containing hundreds of buddha statues.
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  • The Mekong river, seen from a step which leads to the lower Pak Ou caves. The Mekong ist the 12th longest river in the world with a length varying between 4300 and 4900 km.
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  • Women selling their wares along a main street in Luang Prabang.
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  • Two girls, one of them is eating sticky rice, posing for the camera in Nong Kiau.
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  • A street scenery in Nong Kiau. Chickens a pig and beach slides.
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  • According to "Wikitravel" - Nong Khiaw (Nong Kiau or Nong Kiew) is a rustic little town on the bank of the Ou River in Laos. It is squeezed in between some of the most fantastic limestone mountains north of Vang Vieng.<br />
Many travellers pass through on the way up river to the even more isolated Muang Ngoi, but Nong Khiaw has a plenty of charm, a decent range of accommodation, plus conveniences suchas 24 hour electricity and a connection to the road network for those interested in exploring the surrounding area.
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  • Portrait of a girl i met in a small grocery shop in Nong Khiaw.
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  • Late in the morning in Nong Kiaw, i saw this children playing with a skipping rope.
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  • Women washing their clothes at a river bank in Muang Ngoi Neua.
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  • I saw this woman washing her child, while i was eating in a restaurant on the other side of the road. So i took the camera, went across the street, and asked her if i could take a photo.
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  • Four young monks posing in front of their monastery in Muang Ngoi Neua.
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  • In 1964 the United States of America started an intensive  nine year bombing campaign against Laos. Muang Ngoi Neua was also heavily bombed, forcing the inhabitants to escape into local caves.
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  • According to "Wikipedia" -  As of 2008, Laos is the most heavily bombed country, per capita, in the world. An average of one B-52 bomb-load was dropped on Laos every eight minutes, 24-hours-a-day, between 1964 and 1973.[22] Due to the particularly heavily impact of cluster bombs during this war, Laos was a strong advocate of the Convention on Cluster Munitions to ban the weapons and assist victims, and hosted the First Meeting of States Parties to the convention in November 2010.
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  • A family sitting beside the path leading from Muang Ngoi Neua to Ban Na.
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  • A water buffalo standing in a rice field located a few minutes away from Ban Na village.
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