A gerogous town on the Mekong well relaxing with a fantastic night market, these pic's show the view from the temple at the top of a hill in the middle of town, a waterfall that we went to visit, a bunch of french people that I met on the way to the waterfall, the most batterd tuk-tuk I could find in Luang Prabang and the last shot I took with my old camera before it failed, cloud in the mountains on the way to Phonsavan.
The Plain of Jars, the most heavily bombed region in the most heavily bombed country in the world. An estimated 30% of all ordance dropped still lies exposed or just under the surface waiting take the lives of Children, Men & Women trying to make a living from the land.
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On our way to one of the Jars sites we passed a mine clearing team of about 8 working only 20 or so meters from the edge of the road. Those that do survive a blast can often end up with horrific injuries preventing them from farming the land making an already difficult life even more so.
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