Vientiane Probably the quietest capital city in the world Currently has 22 entries. |
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The Tat Luang - possibly one of the blingest temples in the world For a capital city Vientiane, well, it's a bit shit. When you've got a population less than .. | Reflected in a tuk tuk mirror | Wendy speeding along ''Schnell, herr tuk tuk, schnell.'' |
The Putaxie - the main landmark in Vientaine Reportedly it's made from concrete donated by the American's to make a new runway. The closer .. | How not to big up your monuments This plaque is on the side of the Patuxie - Vientaine's Arc de Triomphe. If you look closely you .. | Huge Vientiane neon sign in the daytime |
Crumbling French villas Actually Vientiane is full of extremely well preserved grand French villas from a time when it .. | A crumbling chedi A chedi is the centrepiece of a temple, a bit like a steeple in a church. The shape is supposed to .. | A much better preserved temple. If you look, on the right hand side, you can just see the moon. It's nice, different, unusual. .. |
A Lao hospital You really don't want to end up here. Much better, so says the Lonely Planet traveller's bible, .. | Monkey steals and then destroys our water bottle | A sign with a interesting turn of phrase... ..which would be forgivable were the sign not sponsored by the Australian government, as you .. |
In the Buddha Park looking cheesy A big park full of hundreds of Buddhist and Hindu staues | Doug and Wendy striking a respectful pose | Showbiz statue Da-daah! |
Wendy and a very big Buddha | A lot of statue love going on in this park | Including some quite chilling statues representing hell |
Beerlao - practically the only beer you can buy in Laos But it's good, it's cheap and drunk about that much of it. | Downtown Vientaine LA it aint. | Sweetly fragrant open sewers |
The hammer and sickle - still cool in Laos And you thought it ws cosigned to history in the late eighties! .. | | |
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