View from the hill to Baan Nongsa
Wat Phu Champasak
Wat Phu
Buddha image in Wat Phu
Wat Phu up on the hill
The Australian friendship bridge to Laos
Wat Choom Khong
Monks at the Phu Si hill
View down the Phu Si hill
Haw Kham Palace
Boarding for a ride to the Pak Ou Caves
Along the Mekong river
The steps to the caves
Tham Thing
Inside the cave
Buddha images in the Tham Pak Ou
Tham Theung (upper cave)
Buddha images in the Tham Theung (upper cave)
At the river bank near Pak Ou Caves
Noisy long-tail-boats running upwards the Mekong
Villager brew an hootch from sticky rice
Mekong fisher in Ban Xang Hai
Children in Ban Xang Hai
Russian constracted bridge over the Se Don River
High way vendors selling snack food ...
The border to Cambodia
Vegetable vendor girls at the market in Pakse
Waterfalls in the Muang Pak Xong area
Simple machine to dry tea leafes
Fisher village on the Mekong riverside
Fisher on the Mekong riverside
Way to Wat Phu
800 years old heap of rubble
Wat Phu down the hill
View to the Wat Phu complex
Obeisance to Buddha before entering Wat Phou
Lao women selling herbal drinks in front of the wa…
A former palace used as hotel
At the Mekong riverside
Lao village Mueang Không on the Mekong river
Young Lao girl guides us on the river
Don Det village on the river side
Don Det village
Khone Falls
Khone Falls
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Debris of the Wat Phu
Considered by many to be the most beautiful of all the Khmer temples, Wat Phu Champasak is distinguished as much by its dramatic and symbolic environmental setting as it is for its masterful architecture and iconographic art. The temple nestles at the foot of the 1,408-metre Phu Khao Mountain, known in Sanskrit as Lingaparvata or 'Linga Mountain' because it is said to resemble the linga of the Hindu god Shiva. Reputed by legend to be Shiva's birthplace, this has been a sacred site since at least the 5th century CE, when nearby Setapura is believed to have been a capital of the proto-Khmer kingdom of Upper (Land) Chenla. Construction of the Wat Phu temple was begun as early as the 7th century CE under Jayavarman I, though most of the surviving buildings date from the reigns of Jayavarman VI (1080-1107) and Suryavarman II (1113-1150). Converted from Hinduism to Buddhism in the 13th century, the site was maintained by the Khmer rulers right down to the 14th century and still plays an important role in local religious life today.
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