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Mucking around in Mukdahan

why?

Mukdahan is an interesting town on the Mekong river, a town I last visited last over 25 years ago. What really surprised me about the town is good food available of many nationalities. If you’re interested to know more about the town I’m including the Wikipedia link explaining everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukdahan

every town needs it modern tower. Why? I don’t know
Here at the Indochina market next to the river you can find a lot of stuff you might need. Not everything is inexpensive enough to justify shopping here instead at an inexpensive shopping center. But there are some good deals. Here you might want an umbrella
Many might want this T-shirt
the indochina market
Lots of food available. Most of it seems to be sugar
Definitely stuff for tourists to buy
How about pharmaceuticals?
Clothing occupies a large number of the stalls
If you need garlic I guess this is the place to come
And of course every “important” town needs to Bill a big Buddha on the hill. This one is still under construction
and here are some of the constructors having breakfast

Kwan Yin (KANNON) is a popular image

Every temple needs a temple dog. This one is very old, blind and has very long toenails probably from not moving around enough and wearing them down
what it looks like from downtown
City from the top of the statue
banana leaves decorated to bring blessings
More popular banana leaf blessing decorations
This is something I don’t remember at temples, giant Naga. And it seems this is a popular thing to build now.
Someone has parked his tuk tuk on the street, maybe his parking lot?
Belonging to someone in this house?
This clock tower looks fairly new but I can’t say was one here before this was created. This seems to be an increasingly popular thing to build
And a Japanese restaurant with mixed reviews. I didn’t try it
The temple downtown