It has been awhile since I blogged, I've been busy working on putting a Laos Trip photo album to share with my family. I'm glad that I didn't try to tackle it right away since I have many editing to do and I didn't know how back then. I had very little knowledge several years… Continue reading Printing Laos Memories
I bought this picture from an Asian store in Charlotte over 10 years ago, back then I knew very little about where That Luang was since I am not from that Area. I can’t tell you what it used to look like, I would think that it looks like this 30 years ago. That Luang… Continue reading Pra That Luang
Continue from Laos Memory Lane: Luang Prabang. The accent in this region of Laos is very close to my own accent, Tai Tai. But I think the local can pickup that we're not from the Pakse area. My family were from Muang Kao, right across the Mekong River from Pakse. We spent the last part… Continue reading Laos Memory Lane: Southern Laos
Continue from Laos Memory Lane: Vientiane. We stayed with my aunt in Paksan and she asked one of her son in-laws to be our tour guide. He was from Xieng Khouang and I really wanted to visit the Plain of Jars but Luang Prabang was on my number one list and I didn't have the… Continue reading Laos Memory Lane: Luang Prabang
A friend had asked me to do a review of my Laos Trip, it has been a year and a half ago but the memory is still very vivid. I found that the most comforting thing about this trip was to have my dad as a travel companion, like the saying “Two heads are better… Continue reading Laos Memory Lane: Vientiane
Laos is a landlocked country, which means it’s surrounded by only land, however Laos is home to one of the world’s major rivers, the Mekong River, and as well as many other small rivers. So not surprised that many locals are fishermen and catch their meals on these bodies of water. For others, this is… Continue reading Dried Fish Roadside Stand in Laos
Chid-Bor Leum Bane Na When I visited Tum Jung in Vang Vieng Laos, my dad refused to go up with me, I guess he saw one too many caves in his younger days. This one is not so bad, only 174 steps to the top in comparison to Mount Phousi, which has 328 zig zag… Continue reading Dangerous Fashion Statement
It has been one year ago today I was in Laos, actually my last day in Laos. I didn't take many pictures, and our flight was scheduled to leave that afternoon so we had time to kill. The streets of Vientiane were not that busy, but I'm sure Vientiane today, the streets are buzzing in… Continue reading Last Year, Today
Paya Soke When you’re in the presence of a sacred place, I think you could feel it, I know it happened to me. I’ve been in many holy places before, but the one place that has such a strong force to me was the road to Vang Vieng and heading towards Luang Prabang Laos, and… Continue reading May the Force be with you
Bouangeun-Kou Lap Paksan (Paksan Rose) I received a phone call from my cousin yesterday morning, it was a pleasant surprise, all the way from Paksan, Laos. I mailed my Aunt some pictures and my cousin called to tell me that her mom received the package. This was the second time that I sent her pictures,… Continue reading My Aunt’s Flooded Rice Paddy in Laos
Send Me An Angel by Scorpions Have you ever wondered why there are so many young novice monks in Laos, especially in Luang Prabang? Our Buddhist faith in Laos is not as strict as the Myanmar, where it’s their tradition that every Myanmar Buddhist boy average age between 7 and 13 is expected to enter… Continue reading Education That Works
It is very common to see a spirit house in Laos and Thailand, whether at a temple, in front of a house or place of business. So who lives in this spirit house, most people might think a ghost perhaps. Personally I don’t think it’s a ghost, but must be some sort of spirit for… Continue reading A Spirit House
Sad to say that this is my last post for my Laos Trip, this would make 43+ posts total. As for some of you, this might be a call for celebration because you might get tired of seeing, or more like overloading with my pictures from Laos. I think pictures don’t lie, as you can… Continue reading All Good Things Must Come to an End
After we visited Wat Ban Na Muang, we then visited Wat Nong Bua, also known as Wat Prathat Nong Bua located in Ubon Ratchathani. The temple is famous for having the only example in Thailand of a Buddha Gaya-style stupa. The stupa consists of a central stupa with a smaller stupa at each corner of… Continue reading Wat Nong Bua in Ubon Thailand
We left Laos the morning of November 21, 2008 on an 8:30 AM bus and arrived in Ubon, Thailand around 10:00 AM. We stayed in Ubon a bit longer than expected because my dad decided that he wanted to move his step mom's ashes closer to his step brother's temple. We had some free time… Continue reading Wat Ban Na Muang in Ubon Thailand
