Pak Beng 

Our trip down the Mekong stopped for the night at Pak Beng, a small town in northern Laos. It was here that I hit culture shock.
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transpixel This is the view of the Mekong from the top of a sandy cliff.  We somehow walked up that cliff, carrying our packs.  We somehow got back down the next day, though I skinned my knee on the rocks. transpixel
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transpixel Lao taste in bedding involves comfy cushions and sophisticated combinations of florals.  Note the useful items on the nightstand:  drinking water from the Lao Red Cross, toilet paper from Canada, and the journal that kept me sane throughout the trip. transpixel
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This is the view of the Mekong from the top of a sandy cliff. We somehow walked up that cliff, carrying our packs. We somehow got back down the next day, though I skinned my knee on the rocks.
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Lao taste in bedding involves comfy cushions and sophisticated combinations of florals. Note the useful items on the nightstand: drinking water from the Lao Red Cross, toilet paper from Canada, and the journal that kept me sane throughout the trip.
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The garbage workers seemed rather young.
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transpixel Pak Beng was growing fast. transpixel
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transpixel Our guide Sing Thong in the foreground.  Behind him, left to right: Doug, Callum, Hanna, Julie. transpixel
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transpixel Chickens wander freely around the Pak Beng market, where I bought us some lettuce rolls containing eggplant and banana flower. transpixel
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Pak Beng was growing fast.
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Our guide Sing Thong in the foreground. Behind him, left to right: Doug, Callum, Hanna, Julie.
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Chickens wander freely around the Pak Beng market, where I bought us some lettuce rolls containing eggplant and banana flower.
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transpixel We hiked up to the local temple. transpixel
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We hiked up to the local temple.
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At the temple.
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The path down from the temple.
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Left-over bomb shells, oddly not put to any use.
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