We began our journey Chang Rai, in the north of Thailand.

From Chang Rai we took a boat down the Mekong to Luang Prabang….

It was a long day before we finally reached Luang Prabang at night. The next morning we got to see the town…

A mural in an old temple in Luang Prabang, oddly enough featuring sharks consuming human beings – in a land locked country a long way from the sea…..

A monument to the Communist ‘Liberation’ (!?) in 1975

After a stay here we took an overnight bus to Vientienne. 

The hotel where we stayed, originally built by the Russians. It looked o.k. from outside but inside, well….

The main street of Luang Prabang in 2008….

From here we took a bus to The Plain of Jars in Northern Laos. The Jars were funerary urns constructed 2000 years ago. 

From the Plain of Jars we took another bus through the mountains of Northern Laos and on to the border of North Vietnam.

Relics from the Vietnam War at the then Vietnamese border post

On the bus just over the border of North Vietnam…