View of Luang Prabang from the nearby hills

Mural in an old temple outside Luang Prabang,  oddly enough featuring sharks consuming human beings

The alluring beauty of the simplest things in Asia

Main intersection of Vientiane – it’s changed since then!

My hotel room in Vientiane wasn’t the most expensive place around….

Temple in Vientiane

Plain of Jars in the mountains in the east of Laos

Souvenirs from the years of bombing by the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War.

How these 2000 year old jars survived the years of bombing is a mystery

On the local bus heading towards the border of Vietnam – the photos below are of some of the places we stopped at on the way, this in what was then one of the most isolated areas of South East Asia.