Around Luang Prabang

Luang Prabang is the kind of place you can wander around for days and days. So clean tidy and picturesque. Fantastic photographers destination.

Faces of Laos

Here are some shots I took on a 3 day hiking trip around Luang Prabang. We did some moderate trekked around the foot hills through some really isolated villages.
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Laos UXO - Unexploded Ordnance

In 2005 I did a photoshoot for M.A.G. http://www.maginternational.org/ documenting unexploded ordnance in North East Laos. See info below...

Lao PDR has the unwanted distinction of being per capita the most heavily bombed nation in the world.  Between the years 1964 and 1973, the United States flew more than half a million bombing missions, delivering more than two million tons of explosive ordnance, in an attempt to block the flow of North Vietnamese arms and troops through Laotian territory. The ordnance dropped include more than 266 million submunitions (known as “bombies” in Lao) released from cluster bombs.

Significant land battles, including those during the war for independence during the French colonial era and between the Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao forces, also contributed vast quantities of unexploded heavy bombs, rockets, grenades, artillery munitions, mortars, anti-personnel landmines, and improvised explosive devices.

It is estimated that up to 30% of all ordnance did not explode. Such unexploded ordnance (UXO) continues to remain in the ground, maiming and killing people, and hindering socio-economic development and food security.

Around Beautiful Luang Prabang

As a visitor, you cannot help but be amazed by the tidiness and cleanliness of perhaps the most charming city in all of south-east Asia. With UNESCO so closely involved and a largely highly responsible group of local business owners, the pressures of mass tourism development have been held at bay, but for how much longer remains to be seen.

French Blue

Meekong River

Tidy Garden

Papaya Salad and Beer Lao

Night Market

Laos - Amazing Mekong Sunset Luang Prabang

After a long 15 hour busride back to Luang Prabang, I went for a walk down to the river and was treated to this amazing scene of daily life on the Mekong.

Young Monk - Luang Prabang

We flew Air Laos from Hanoi to Luang Prabang, a delightful city on the Meekong river where you could easily wandering around it's neat and tidy streets.

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The northern province of Luang Prabang and its eponymous capital are among the most atmospheric and popular destinations in Laos.

The charming city of Luang Prabang, once the capital of Laos and still considered to be its spiritual heart, breathes a rich meld of French Indochinese architecture, Theravada Buddhist temples and a magical atmosphere.