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The boats ran on a regular service all the way to the “Golden Triangle” --bordering Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and near the Yunnan province of China--, which took two days.
Now, in February, the fertile soil of the exposed banks for about ten meters hosted crops of beans, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, and peanuts. There were also water buffalos in those narrow fields, and even a few elephants.
Even before Buddhism spread to Laos, as the official sign at the Caves said, these caves were used for religious purposes by the local people who “worshiped Phi, or the spirits of nature.”
Several women and men were clearing the irrigation channel, cutting overgrown bushes with primitive tools.
My room had a mosquito net over the bed, allowing me to leave the windows open. Roosters awakened me in the morning. We set out early for a boat ride on the upper Mekong River.
The Lao Royal family is remembered in the statue of its founder, King Sisavang Vong, in the garden of his former royal palace in Luang Prabang. However, the palace, now called the Royal Palace Museum.
A “spirit house” from the old animistic tradition stood before the entrance to our hotel (Villa Santi Resort), to ward off evil.
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