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Around Luang Prabang

Luang Prabang is a World Heritage Site, and the second-biggest town in Laos–population 30,000. (Vientiane, the capital, has about 300,000 people.) It’s full of small boutique-y tourist shops, beautiful temples, and the gorgeous scenery everywhere in Laos.

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Another Wat (Temple) Wat's that? Yep, another wat (temple) ...this was quite a pretty one.
Inside a Wat Monks praying in a wat. Laos, like Thailand, is mostly Theravada Buddhist.

Lao Night Market The Night Market, where various vendors sell gorgeous Lao weaving, quilting, saa-paper lanterns (left), knives, knicknacks, and, well, stuff. (They also sell all kinds of food...I ate my roasted rat here.)
Lao Weaving Textile Closeup Closeup of one of the textiles.

Lao Office for Protection of Foreigners I started giggling uncontrollably when I saw this. It's the "Office for Protection of Foreigners".
Tuktuk in Laos Some forms of transportation in Laos. This is a tuktuk, or three-wheeled cart.

Cyclo-Rickshaw (Moto) And this is a cyclo-rickshaw...
Songtao (Pickup-taxi) And this is a midrange songtao, or pickup-taxi. These can be anything from the microvan here, to minivans, to actual pickup trucks, or glorified golf carts.

Knife Making By Hand Knives being forged by hand. Here the blacksmith hammers away at a blade...
Knife Making Helpers ...and here are some of his helpers. Cute as the dickens, aren't they?

Child Pumping Knife Bellows A young child pumping the bellows. He was quite gleeful about it, in classic four-year-old form...
Elephant Jaw Completely gratuitous...here is a piece of elephant jawbone, on sale in Luang Prabang. I'd have bought it, except for CITES regulations...it had fascinating crenellations.

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