Luang Prabang: Koung Si Waterfalls

And after the bears came the waterfalls, which were surprisingly beautiful and very much reminiscent, on a smaller scale, of the Plitvic Falls in Croatia, half a world away...

Great signage everywhere, just like a US national park; and in English too

Terrace after terrace

Big jungle trees too

Big ugly nasty-looking spider

That big

Said to be 100 meters altogether

Later in the day, swimming in the larger pools

Geico...

The usual market at the entrance to the park

And the usual yummies

On the drive back, a water buffalo riding in a songtheaw

Bears...Oh My!

Another day we went to the Kuang Si national park and waterfalls, which contain a Moon Bear recovery program and reserve...

Luang Prabang Night Market

It's several blocks of one long street in the old town, all set up after 5PM. Mostly local crafts and food. We visited several times.

In the food court/alley

Choose your smoothie

$2.25

So sad to see so many children so corralled...

More sadness...270 million US bombs dropped on Laos...

Beyond the market

Luang Prabang: Confluence

One day we did the walk in the old town to the confluence of the Mekong and the Nam Kahn, and back.

Yeah, Pathet Lao, although not in your face so much

The Nam Kahn, where they are building levies

French colonial

Nam Kahn and neat bamboo bridge

The blue paint doesn't go, I think

Village across the river

More colonial

Building another levy, the old-fashioned way; many women among the workers

What gabions are made of; the old-fashioned way

Maybe why they're building the levy

In a beautiful park at the confluence

The confluence and another bamboo bridge