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The Plain of Jars

Early-ish start for us this morning trying to haggle down a tour as much as possible, but as usual, we didn’t have much luck and the cheapest we could find was about £30 including everything. Too much for stingy backpackers on a budget! So we took a motorbike instead although the weather...

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chrischarly on August 3, 2011 from Phonsavan, Laos

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Passage through SE Asia

Heading towards The Plain of Jars...

After finally arriving at the correct bus station, which should’ve taken 5 minutes, but instead took 30 as the driver of our tuk tuk pretended he understood what we were saying, so after another huge tour of Luang Prabang we just managed to jump on the bus to Phonsavan as it was leaving,...

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chrischarly on August 2, 2011 from Phonsavan, Laos

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Passage through SE Asia

The mysterious Plain of Jars

The last deed in Vang Vieng was to have my shoes repair that had been destroyed by the rubbish trek in Cambodia. The job the guy in Vang Vieng did seemed to be really good, but I decided then that Asians now have absolutely no comprehension of the wealth of westerners. Almost the whole time in...

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The Happy Couple on April 2, 2009 from Phonsavan, Laos

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

The Plain of Jars and more UXO than you can shake a stick at!

Just one day here on the toursit trail theres not much else to see than the one attraction but its certainly worth the visit. The plain of jars is around 1000 unexplained, hand carved stone jars spread across 54 different fields. The jars vary in size form regular jar size to about 1 or 2...

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Dan on August 26, 2008 from Phonsavan, Laos

from the travel blog: Been there, Dan that!

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