Tha Kaek
 Alley by my hotel, looking toward the Mekong |
 Canal running through town |
 Laundry |
 Incense |
 I went on a motorbike tour of local temples. This is one. |
 Guardian |
 It had been pouring for two weeks straight. I went on the rural tour to find much of the area flooded. |
 But still beautiful |
 Had to take boats to many of the temples |
 Beautiful countryside |
 Ornary bovine |
 Inside one of the cave temples |
 Very wet, dripping, spelunkable |
 Lots of this stuff |
 Lots of lonely tuk-tuk shots |
 One of my boatman. |
 With so few tourists, westerners being boated around by toddlers attracts some interest |
 Another one of the caves |
 Fishing thingy. In Kerala, busloads of tourists are delivered to such nets. |
 Wandering around my last day in town, stumbled upon a class Lao temple, filled with strange figures |
 Including these people apparently making butter |
 Ogres. We love ogres. |
 This we can't explain. |
 Ah, Laos. |
 An aging, bearded, hunch backed . . . what? |
 No idea. |
 We are a big fan of this woman. |
 Wandering around town. |
 Cute girl |
 Charitably, a canal. |
 Side street, Tha Kaek |
 Another temple out in the villages |
 Back downtown |
 This was an interesting temple, in a cave halfway up one of those limestone cliff thingies. |
 Badly made statuary |
 Lord Ganesha is popular in Lao temples |
 Beautiful countryside |
 Ah, Laos. |
 More water |
 And yet more. |
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