ZADAN ~ Luang Prabang overview

Location: Laos ~ Burma ~ Thailand

Luang Prabang

Overview ~ One Day ~ Around Town ~ Oldest Temple ~ Waterfall ~ Whiskey Village

This is taken from a temple on a hill in the center of town, looking towards the Mae Kong river, and across to a small farming village on the other side.

As you turn left, you look out to the most expansive part of the town. The further out you go this way (roughly west) the more the modern buildings begin to turn into tradition Laos houses and dirt roads.

Turn left again, now facing away from the Mae Kong, and your facing one of the 2 large north-south roads. There is actually a University hiding in those hills back there, I walked there once, and don't remember exactly where it is.

Turn left again, and your looking at the smaller Mae Kham river, and some new housing developments across the bridge. If you look behind the branch that is sticking up on the left of the picture, you can kind of see the Luang Prabang International Ariport.

Believe it or not, Laos Airlines has propellers! It took me almost twice as long to fly to Bangkok from here as it did from Chiang Mai Thailand (and they are roughly the same distance, because once flight was propellers and one was jets). Imagine that, an international flight - with propellers!

Here's the Mae Kham river from the cobblestone walkway down at normal level, looking in the same direction, roughly, as that last picture (before the plane). The little hut's you see are a restaurant, each table has it's own little grass hut over it, it's a popular place for local Lao people to go, and have "Sin Dta", which has a little clay pot, over coals in the middle of the table, and you make a "hot-pot" meal, by putting meat, noodles and veggies in.

Overview ~ One Day ~ Around Town ~ Oldest Temple ~ Waterfall ~ Whiskey Village

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