On the road in Laos

we left the hotel and took a long trip by bus, stopped for another night than continued again for about 6 hours.  im in my hotel room in Vientiane.  These pix were taken along the road.

                the Mekong river

                        cave

                 inside hundreds of Buddha statues

        the walkway to the boat

        the Mekong river with the sun

                our hotel and what we had to walk thru to get to and from room

                   A local family in their house   14 total children  (not all there)

           the house they live in.  One room walls made of bamboo

                a wooden house.  all homes are built on stilts some enclose the bottom for another room

        the song river from the hotel lobby

               Dried Bananas and fried Mulberry leaves ,  both were good

                  fried fish at a market place

 we stopped by a house that was having a party and mom started dancing .  in the background is a home made rocket for the were going to send up at 1500 hrs.  we were there at 1300 hrs and had to leave.

           A building on a corner in Vientiane, which is the city I am in now.