Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

How I got there: Lao Airlines QF 245

Altitude Plot

Around Vientiane

More practice with panning and local sights

April 19 - 20, 2012:Off to Vientaine

Up for my early morning sunrise

Flags - a reminder of times past

Some sort of markers on the Mekong bottom. The water is so low that there is no river traffic. Several days later, after some rain, the river was easier to see

Mekong markers

Motion capture

Volleyball court

Camping

Fishing boat

Another group of mounds

Reminder of French times of the past

Wires

Temple Tower

Morning light on a temple

Another view

An inside look at the monk works

Temple reflections

Lao honey pancakes

My favorite - street food

Street cooking

Morning worship

Morning monks

Now - sitting and practicing panning photos - bicycle boy

Street cooking

Wires

My wheels - to tour the city

Scaffolding

Inside the temple

Cobra shade

A line of statues

Many faces

The Buddha fix-it shop

City tower

Looking up

Looking through a keyhole

Lying Buddha

The feed of a lying Buddha

Security Museum

Two men and a woman

Battle

A battle scene

Then final stop - a weaving factory

Simple looms - beautiful fabric

Making thread

Moving the shuttle

Weaving

Shuttle

Spinning - making new thread

Dying station

A group of spinners - with bicycle rim hand-crank apparatus

Weaving

Wide weaving

Narrow weaving

Behind the scenes

Repair in action

C. Frank Starmer

-