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Luang Prabang – Part 2

Old colonial style

did you know that Laos was at one time a colony of France? Laos is on the east side of Thailand and the British colony of Burma was on the west side of Thailand. Did you know that Thailand played off the British and the French to get more territory? Did you know that the Lao and Thai cultures are very much the same? Did you know that many of the streets in Vientiane are called “Rue”, french for “street”? Did you know that the Lao and Thai languages, written and spoken, are very similar?

This is about the age to start teaching kids to drive a motorcycle
A village street
A local temple. This isn’t a wealthy community
our transport to the hotel from the bus station
Delicious food everywhere
looking pregnant
inexpensive smoothies. We had avocado mixes
Zurich Cafe. Good bread. Make sure it is freshly baked.
Jerky drying on the street
People buy these cages with birds in them and then let them go. By the way, new shoes. Aren’t they nice?
A map of the town attractions
A view from the top
Phousi Overlook
Kids on the playground
most of the official building signage is in French as well as Lao. And of course you can understand this much French, right? After all, half of English is French.
Making sugarcane juice
Many monks in this town and a great many of them have either orange or black umbrellas to keep the sun and rain off them
What would a photo blog of a colonial town be like without the photo of an old car?!
A Hill tribe restaurant
an old stupah
mostly due to Covid, no business for two years, you see the signs everywhere. People just could not afford to stay in business and yet they have to continue paying property taxes so they need to do something with the property
The attractions around the city
At the Zurich Café we had an avocado salad and a ciabatta sandwich

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