Photo Tour of Luang Prabang's Monks and Temples

See how tangerine-cloaked monks, golden wats, French architecture, and crunchy baguettes paint a beautiful city in this album.

 

Can you spot a fake? "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in American." The people in Laos associated anything in China as bad because they seem to get most of China's reject exports.

 

Tribal fashion show.

 

 

 

 

Tribal wedding dress

 

 

break dancing after the fashion show

 

this novice monk highlights words he doesn't know in Steve Jobs' biography and brings the book to Big Brother Mouse tutoring center to learn English

 

 

 

wealthy and old school. Luang Prabang was a pretty town with French colonial architecture

 

Big Buddha, little Buddha

 

inside of a French bakery

 

Monks' robes hang up to dry at the monastery

 

beyond the river

 

 

 

Lina found a friend! (always)

 

rice cakes drying in a lush alley

 

 

a bamboo bridge is the only way across

 

unless you want to walk all the way to this bridge.

 

BeerLao!

 

Traditional dance at the Royal Balet

 

 

 

Followed by a traditional play

 

These were monkies

 

These were demons

 

Ready to fight

 

But the prince said no

 

The demon didn't care for what the price had to say, so they fought

 

a monkey helps the old wise man

 

these masks just seem so emotional for being so static! A demon holds his fallen comrad as his mistress holds on

 

more traditional dance to end the scene

 

 

Lina with one of the monkies

 

Monks gather alms outside of our guesthouse in the morning

 

 

 

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