Snapshots: Luang Prabang the city of 30 temples ...

After circling Luang Prabang in a thunderstorm in a twin prop plane we finally landed a little later than anticipated! The torrential rain quickly passed and it dried up enough for Mr W and I to find a nice little restaurant on the Mekong called the Antique House, couple of beers later - well needed after finding that our "nice" guest house was far from that described both in the guide book and on the web ...

Ah, so the city of 30 extant temples, it must have been quite amazing in its day. Sadly many of the temples have fallen into disrepair and with little government money to fund repair they rely on their UNESCO world heritage status for their upkeep. By the end of ghe first day we were virtually "watted" out and we only visited two or three on the inside ... Besides the temples Luang Prabang is very interesting architecturally, French colonial with Chinese influence. Normally a very touristic place but fortunately, for us, at this time of the year it was quite quiet, so quiet that we kept running into familiar faces on a regular basis.

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