Showing posts with label laos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laos. Show all posts

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Some pictures to fill in the gaps

This tree lit with lanterns is in the main park in Ubon. I love it.


I like entropy, things that are fading or being weathered. This is from Pakse, and I don't know where it was pointing to.


More interesting decay. Also from Pakse; Laos used to be occupied by the French, so you have these odd colonial facades all over the place.


Whew, I was afraid this was the SMOKING Wat Luang.


I love this door/window combo. More entropy. Sorry, I really like it.


It's a good point.


Monks with umbrellas in Pakse. In Buddhism, every man is encouraged to become a monk to bring merit to his family -- he can be a monk for as short a time as a week, even. I think this is why people don't appear as overly solicitous towards their "clergy" here; if that holy guy is your cousin Larry, it's hard to be all, "Your worshipfulness!"


Sunset from the railroad bridge in Don Khon, Si Phan Don. I guess it's kind of okay, if you like things that are GREAT.


View from my hammock on Don Khon. See that black speck mid-photo? The next shot is an enlargement, if you will.


Kids tubing in Don Khon. They floated down the river shrieking and tumbling off and having a great time, just at dusk.