→ March 7, 2010
Our Lao detox started at 5.30am when we dressed and hurried down to the marketplace to assist to the traditional almsgiving ceremony. Well, maybe I should say when I woke up and hurried down to the marketplace…Guillaume being the exact opposite of a morning person, he didn’t manage to get out of bed so early…
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→ March 7, 2010
Resplendent gold Buddha statues, Bougainvillaea trees peppered with fushia and pastel pink flowers, the safran robes of hundreds of monks and their multicoloured sun umberellas swaying in their wake, burnt ocres of the crumbling walls of French colonial houses and gleaming silver wats roofs…
Colour and a sense of calm antiquity is everywhere in Laos’ foremost [...]