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A river cruise ship with cabins.
Old buildings along the river road.
A view upriver where the Nam Khan river enters the Mekong. Later, we hired the banana boat pulled up to shore.
Old buildings along the river road, this one with lush Trumpet Flowers.
Bamboo bridge crossing the Nam Khan river.
Junction of Mekong and Nam Khan.
Giant jackfruit! Giant jack___!
The locals actually use the bamboo bridge.
Selfie by the river bank.
Fisherman
Heading off on our hired banana boat. Fancy house on a bluff overlooking the Mekong.
View ahead from the boat as we set out.
Another very fancy house overlooking the river, this one may be a hotel.
Working boats tied up to the banks.
Getting gas for our boat. The jerrycans are being passed from the dock, across another boat to ours.
New bridge being built across the Mekong.
Our boat tied up to the bank while we visit a local village. Boatman is in red and the fellow waving is an englishman - we shared the trip with him and his wife.
Remains of a bridge destroyed by american bombing during the war.
Buffalo on the bank.
Looking forward in our boat.
Visited another village. All the kids are playing in the river on scraps of wood and foam. (Almost every boat we saw had a small garden in the bow, even if just a single pot like this.)
Their minder is bathing.
Kids playing.
Sandal pile.
Looking upriver.
Minder has moved on to shampoo now.
Path up the bank to the village.
This village is famous for homebrew 'whiskey' - in this case with a little added scorpion and cobra (real)!
Homebrew 'whiskey' and wine.
Local butterfly, we saw a huge variety in Laos.
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