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Of Ants and Giants
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 6 June 2011
I gazed down on hundreds of giant stone vessels scattered across the fertile Plain of Jars and thought of ants. Some lay crazily canted, as if abandoned in haste by an ancient race of giants whose dinner had suddenly been interrupted by invaders. Like ants to whom humans are invisible, I imagined that the jars [...]
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Scrap Metal and Tourist Scars in Phonsavan
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 3 May 2011
On a small stand in the Phonsavan tourism office, bracelets are for sale. So is flatware. They sit beside a postcard that reads “Make Spoons Not War.” Beside cartoon posters depicting the Dos and Don’ts of respectable Lao tourism, posted leaflets encourage you to purchase items made by villages out of metal scraped from the [...]
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The Most Bombed Country in the World
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 29 March 2010
Notice bomb shells integrated into architecture Laos has the dubious distinction of being “the most bombed country in the world”, a record that no country wishes to hold. The province of Xieng Khuang, where we are currently traveling, is “the most bombed region” in “the most bombed country in the world” meaning we are surrounded by [...]
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The Plain of Jars
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 25 March 2010
We’ve made our way to Xieng Khuang province to visit the enigmatic “Plain of Jars”, a large highland plain which extends out from Phongsavan dotted with hundreds of giant stone vessels of mysterious origin. Believed to be over 2,000 years old, nobody really knows who created the jars or why they were made. There are a [...]
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