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    Journey to Luang Prabang

    The bus journey from Vientiane takes about 10 hrs, the road is good and some impressive scenery along the way.

    Vang Vieng is 2-3hrs from Vientiane, worth a stopover. Plenty of nice, cheap guesthouses for the backpacker, open air restaurants/beergardens with local and travellers' food, where one may also acquire officially banned stimulants.
    There are treks into the nearby mountains on offer, some lime-caves to be visited etc. I didn't do any of that, but enjoyed floating in the river with a hired inflatable:

    There's a typical town market where we bought a few bbq sticks:
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    Nice pics. Sorry:

    "You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to stroller again."

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    We passed many villages on the way, the majority of the rural population is very poor, and basic amenities are a luxury:



    Luang Prabang nestles in the mountains:




    Luang Prabang is known as the city of a thousand temples, this is the most famous one:

    known for its mosaics:



    It has ceremonial barges

    and is located by the river near the ferry pier (view to the other side)
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    Details from temples:




    A colonial building, this could almost be South-Germany:

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    Great pics stroller, but you could do with learning to use the clone stamp tool in Photoshop to edit out that mobile phone aerial in the third photo of your second post.

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    Thanks, the pics are extracted from a video I made, I'll look into the photo-shop tools sometime.
    The night market is held on the main road from 5-8pm:


    Thai and Lao have similar habits:


    There's a delcining Buddha near that temple on the hill, sorry I'm terrible with names:

    The view:

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    Quote Originally Posted by stroller
    There's a delcining Buddha near that temple on the hill
    Do you know what he declined?

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    I'm inclined to declare he declined his inclinations

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    Ok, smart guy, I should have said "reclining", though "declining" fits as well, as the image depicts Buddha towards the end of his life shortly before he died.

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    entering the state of NIrvana isnt it?

    I want to do that trip but just found the reports of random machine gun attacks on the busses slightly off-putting. Yes I am a wimp

    Its one of these ironies that crap communist governments that keep the people poor are actually better environmentalists than so called developed western countries.
    You dont pay them to stay for the night, you pay them to leave in the morning

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    Yeah, Laos in particular doesn't give a crap about economic growth, industrialisation and free market or whatever else Bush & co may spout. Even family-owned "socialist" nations have likeable aspects.

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