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“Travel through Laos, November 2011”
From Laos, posted by Arlo Midgett on 1/10/2012 (169 items)
- Piling into the hostel’s only pickup
- On the river taxi That guy behind us is Jim, from South Carolina. We’d go on to run …
- Boats tied up
- Good travel reading, thanks to Wendy Ellsberry Doris.
- View of the Mekong from the bar
- Family accommodations
- Hey, I want to be on the one with the satellite dish!
- Shoving off
- A second boat packed with tourists FORESHADOWING!
- Nothing but jungle
- Snagged a table!
- You know, this was a pretty good day, actually
- Nap time!
- The faster, louder, and and more dangerous way to travel down the Mekong
- Like a dry cleaners
- Other boats on the river
- Your WTFLAOS photo of the day
- Fishing
- I can’t figure out why I like this photo.
- Arriving in Pak Beng for the night
- A "friend" we met in the hotel
- Two boats full of tourists yesterday were compressed into one dangerously overcrowded…
- What can you do? We were told the boats leave at 9:30am, so we made sure to show up p…
- Don’t touch my stuff! As we stopped at villages, more locals piled onto the boat, tak…
- Stopping at a village along the bank
- For sale!
- Mushrooms and stinky dried fish
- 8 hours, sitting on the rail. It’s times like these that I value my iPhone SO MUCH. …
- Anything to escape reality for awhile
- Long tails again
- The helmets are protection against the rocks (in case you fall in and are swept up by…
- Hey, wild elephants on the shore! No, wait. My mistake. Just a couple of backpacke…
- Steering the boat
- Glass calm
- I learned on this trip that boats are uniquely designed for their particular environm…
- Fishing
- Old and new high-water marks? That’s my guess; I really don’t know.
- Watching the fishermen
- I spy something floating
- As the golden hour approached, all us photogs looked like this
- Nearing Luang Prabang
- Evening fishing
- Just a couple of tourists in a taxi
- The peninsula at the confluence of two rivers (Luang Prabang)
- By the end of the day, we were dying to get off this boat, but it’d take another half…
- Haw Pha Bang
- Flag
- Making lunch
- Checkers
- Taxi
- Open door
- Laundry Service
- Daily rates in chalk? That’s a lot of work.
- Hitler kitteh
- Table settings
- Sneaking up on the other kids
- On the catwalk
- This is not the bamboo bridge you’re looking for.
- Fishing
- Monks on a bridge
- We found ourselves wandering through a neighborhood across the river
- Not up to OSHA standards
- Late afternoon sun
- Bamboo
- Nice cafe in Luang Prabang…
- …seating leaves a bit to be desired.
- Chatting after dark
- The bamboo bridge at night
- Two things I didn’t notice when taking this photo: 1) The last line 2) My reflection
- Look at the size of this soup! Look at the size of this spoon! I can’t wait to try …
- OM NOM NOM!
- Luang Prabang had the best baked goods!
- Breakfast before the monks
- Waiting, waiting
- Ponytail shadow
- Morning coffee
- Stuff for sale
- For sale
- Big smile
- Here they come!
- Monk procession
- Line up
- Waiting their turn
- Sticky rice
- Anything you don’t want?
- Respectful serving
- More respect
- Respect
- Keeping up
- Next wave of monks
- Elder
- Thank you
- Serving
- Lining up again
- Looking for handouts
- Young monk
- Long line
- Some people can piss off the monks and the photographers at the same time. That’s tal…
- Sigh.
- Feet
- Space!
- Leaving the scene
- Heading home
- What is the deal with these signs? What do they mean?
- What is the deal with these signs? What do they mean?
- Luang Prabang street scene
- On the river
- Luang Prabang Temple
- SMS
- Fan as bellows
- Setting up shop
- Night market
- Cafe Lao
- Umbrellas
- Hanging lanterns
- Salad
- Sausages
- Eggs
- Take away
- Vendor at the night market
- Heading up
- Waiting
- Tourists participating
- Looking for handouts
- Watching from the street
- Between the knees
- Sashes
- Poverty on the corner
- Closing the lids for the walk home
- Poverty
- Blur
- Monk on the street
- Going around the corner
- Procession ending
- A tuk tuk picked us up to take us to the bus station. There were already 9 people on …
- Checking out our sweet ride
- Am I reading this right? Only 10% of the area within the park has been THOROUGHLY cle…
- Mental note: STAY BETWEEN THE WHITE MARKERS!
- The trail into the Plain of Jars
- The photo flattens this almost too much to tell what it is: An immense crater left ov…
- Big jar
- Many were filled with stagnant water
- Posing with a jar
- Studiously casual
- Plain of Jars panorama
- Many jars off in the distance
- "Hello? Anyone home?" Side note: You couldn’t pay me enough money to set fo…
- Jar and sky
- White markers on each side of this path, red on the other
- Looking back up the hill
- Jar
- Broken jar
- What were they for?
- The biggest concentration of jars on the site
- A perfectly inviting tree
- Sitting in the shade
- Mushroom
- Looking back
- Path to the sky
- Found a crack!
- Through the crack
- Broken jar Behind it you can see another crater (there were dozens in the site) with …
- Villages in the distance
- The parking lot
- Let’s roll
- Stylish!
- They had cartoons like this printed up and posted at the border, too, with an immigra…
- Every red dot is a bomb dropped. And this is just one province in Laos.
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