Buddha Park

I've been hanging with three other solo female travelers for the past couple days and we all agree that there's just something about Laos that slooooows you down. The pace of life here is so slow, people are so relaxed, that you can't help but chill out yourself. So none of us has done much of anything here, until today when we all grabbed a tuk-tuk together out to Buddha Park, about 25 kilometers from the center of town. It was the weirdest place, just statue after statue of different Buddhas and Hindu gods. There was one giant structure you could enter, through a big mouth, and climb up to the top for a view of the whole place. It felt a little like Raiders of the Lost Ark inside. And at the other end of the park some guy had climbed up into the temple and was playing the flute, which for whatever odd reason just seemed to fit. It was definitely one of the strangest tourist attractions I've ever seen.




Remnants of an offering on one of the statues.