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| Luang Prabang has a stuppa atop the main hill, but they charge the entrance way too much to our taste. |
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| Haw Kham, the former royal palace |
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| ... and the nextby temple (being restored) |
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| Painting the decoration items |
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| The city has a lot of temples, from different times. They are not all restored. |
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| This week, monks also prepare some sort of boats with candles. They will be pushed to the Mekong during the weekend. |
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| Being an official building, in a main street of the city, the garden is almost abandoned, but the pond still has its charm. |
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| Advert for the Lao Army |
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| Vat Manorom |
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| A police station |
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| Mekong river |
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| Phou Si stuppa (the one atop the hill) |
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| Ban Xieng Muan |
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| Vat Choumkhongsourintharame |
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| Mae Kok river |
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| Monks are not the wealthiest people, far from that :) |
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| The night market is very colourful ... |
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| ... and has very interesting products indeed ; here Lao Lao rice wine, perfume with delicacies like scorpions or snakes |
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| Mount PhuSi at night |
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| Pizza time ! |
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| Anyone who's travelled within South-East Asia will tell you: places are "same same ... but different" |
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