The Town of Luang Prabang In Luang Prabang time seems to have stood still. Certainly the traffic stands still to let pedestrians cross the road. An unusual occurrence in Indochina. Its pretty streets are lined with French colonial houses punctuated with Buddhist temples. Once the Royal capital of Laos, Luang Prabang it is now its main […]
UNESCO, Laos – Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape
Vat Phou (Wat Phu) is an ancient Khmer temple complex. Found at the base of Mount Phu Kao in Champasak province in southern Laos, a temple has been on this site ever since the 5th century. However most of the ruins you see go back to the 11th to 13th centuries. The site afterwards became […]