Not much traffic of the vehicular variety here in Luang Prabang, but if you are out and about at 6am, the streets fill up with monks all collecting their daily alms in the form of food and rice from the townspeople. So the only rule we could think of for crossing the road here is to try and not run straight into a monk! The townsfolk prepare food the day before - we were a bit puzzled why we kept seeing 1000 tortillas and ten times that number of rice patties drying out in the sun, but now we know. Anyway, from what we could see, the monks definitely won't starve.
Luang Prabang is quite a smart place with lots of stylish French and international restaurants. But we prefer to find the cheap cafes and eat the local Lao food which on the whole is absolutely delicious.
There are so many Wats in this ancient town and each has loads of monks. Barely a minute goes by without seeing an orange robe floating by - it is all rather surreal and very photogenic.
Of course we are enjoying ourselves and despite the midnight curfew that applies to everyone in the country, we have staggered back later once or twice!
As always, lots more interesting shots on Flickr, especially interestign to fanatics of Wats and bridges!
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