Wat Hosian Voravihane
2017年11月12日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
After the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Center, I wandered over to nearby Wat Hosian Voravihane, which had a very unusual naga and lion guarding itsもっと詳しく
Wat Wisunarat
2017年11月12日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Wat Wisunarat featured a beautiful stupa.
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Random Wanderings Around Luang Prabang
2017年11月12日, ラオス ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
This entry contains random shots from my wanderings around Luang Prabang. The temples started to blur into one another, so I included photos of some of the smaller ones in thisもっと詳しく
Sunset at Mount Phousi
2017年11月12日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Mount Phou Si has spectacular views of the city, and there is a collection of wats on the hill too. The highlight of sunset was a friendly cat who hung out with theもっと詳しく
Ban Xang Hai
2017年11月13日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
A full 60+ hours after stepping off the slow boat, I was finally ready to step into a boat again. I signed up for a boat tour to Pak Ou Caves upstream on the Mekong. The Pak Ou Caves are famous forもっと詳しく
Pak Ou Cave
2017年11月13日, ラオス ⋅ 🌧 26 °C
After the pitstop at Ban Xang Hai, we proceeded on to Pak Ou Caves. After docking, I climbed the 200+ steps to the upper cave which turned out to be a dark cave (I had a flashlight with me) with aもっと詳しく
Royal Palace
2017年11月13日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
After Pak Ou, I visited the Royal Palace.The palace itself was very well curated with explanatory signs throughout. Easily missed on the palace grounds is a collection of vintage cars once used by theもっと詳しく
Wat Xieng Thong
2017年11月13日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
My last sightseeing stop of the day was Wat Xieng Thong, which had some very unusual motifs on some of its walls showing scenes from everyday life. I’ve never seen this on a wat, but I really likedもっと詳しく
Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng
2017年11月14日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
My initial plan after Luang Prabang was to take the bus east to Phonsavan, and then take another bus southwest to Vang Vieng and then finally to Vientiane to catch my flight back to Singapore.もっと詳しく
Flashpackers Behaving Badly
2017年11月14日, ラオス
While I was en route to Vang Vieng, Nate, Liz, Kit, and Emily informed me they planned to go tubing on the Nam Song River that afternoon. I was a tiny bit surprised that they - all flashpackers inもっと詳しく
Wanderings Around Vang Vieng
2017年11月15日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
I woke up the next morning feeling a little rough, and sore all over. How was it possible to get this sore floating in water and dancing badly? I also had some scrapes from the rocks. Anyway, I tookもっと詳しく
Nam Song River Part II
2017年11月16日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
After recovering from the tubing, I went out looking for kayaking trips. Only one operator seemed to operate kayaking trips on the Nam Li River, and because no one else had booked that trip for theもっと詳しく
Blue Lagoon
2017年11月16日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
After caving, we got back into the water and kayaked into town. Our end point was a little bit past the tubing end point. There, we were put in a sawngthaew to go to the Blue Lagoon, a swimming hole.もっと詳しく
Chill Day at Vang Vieng
2017年11月17日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 34 °C
Unfortunately, I built in a little too much slack into my Laos itinerary, and even more slack creeped in when I decided to fly between Phonsavan and Vientiane. The slack, however, wasn’t sufficientもっと詳しく
Vang Vieng to Phonsavan
2017年11月18日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
A songthaew came to get me at my hotel at the appointed time to take me to the bus station where our minibus was waiting. The inside of the minibus was already full of stuff; there were sacks of grainもっと詳しく
The UXO Tragedy
2017年11月18日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
It is impossible to visit the Plain of Jars without acknowledging the wanton damage caused by American cluster bombs leftover from the Vietnam War. Indeed, the jar sites are pockmarked with bombもっと詳しく
Xieng Khoung Tourism Office
2017年11月19日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
The Plain of Jars is a series of archeological sites featuring hundreds of mysterious stone jars over 2,000 years old. It has been theorized that these jars were used for burial. Three sites are openもっと詳しく
Plain of Jars Visitor Center
2017年11月19日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
We were dropped off at the visitor center at the foot of the hill where Site 1 is located. Here, we viewed even more UXO.
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Plain of Jars Site 1
2017年11月19日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Site 1 was the first site we visited. This was the most accessible site, and so there were quite a few people there, comprising mostly of locals on their Sunday outing. As there was a Hmong festivalもっと詳しく
Beating Swords Into Plowshares
2017年11月19日, ラオス ⋅ 🌧 24 °C
"They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations shall not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.”
- Isaiah 2:4
I’m not aもっと詳しく
Plain of Jars Site 3
2017年11月19日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Our second Plain of Jars stop was Site 3. This was the most atmospheric of the three sites. After a noodle lunch at the site entrance, we walked through padi fields and then up a hill. The jars wereもっと詳しく
Russian Tank
2017年11月19日, ラオス ⋅ 🌧 26 °C
The driver made a quick pitstop for us to look at the rusted out hull of a Russian made tank. Upon deeper investigation, I learned that it used to belong to the North Vietnameseもっと詳しく
Plain of Jars Site 2
2017年11月19日, ラオス ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Site 2 was our last stop of the day. We also had this site to ourselves. The jars were spread out across two hills. Both hills were nice and shady. At this site, there were a number of trees growingもっと詳しく
Phonsavan Market & Surrounding Area
2017年11月20日, ラオス ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
I had a lazy morning in Phonsavan. After eating the hotel breakfast, I wandered around the nearby market. Phonsavan’s market is huge - way out of proportion to the size of the town. My guess is thatもっと詳しく
Phonsavan to Vientiane
2017年11月20日, ラオス
Lao Airlines QV402 | XKH/VTE
Economy Class
Aerospatiale ATR72-500 | RDPL-34171
ATD/1330 | ATA/1407
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After packing, I checked out atもっと詳しく























































































































































































































































