Mount Phousi

On By Sanne & Araldo

Already our last day in Laos before flying to Hanoi (instead of taking the bus as we initially had planned. It should be obvious why). Today on the program: a visit to the palace and to watch the sunset from nearby Mount Phousi.

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Temple on the palace grounds.
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The front of the palace.
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Across the street from the palace there is a small mountain. To get there you have to go up the stairs, about 400 steps.
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An hour before sunset we headed to the entrance.
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Again, there was a temple.
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View halfway. You can see the bridge we crossed the night before to go to the pizza place.
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The way up was quite interesting, as it was littered with a lot of Buddha statues all covered in gold paint. This one is Tuesday Buddha.
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Saturday Buddha.

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Modern monks.
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View from the top of mount Phousi.
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The top was kind of a bad joke. It was so crowded with tourists, you had to push yourself through them to get a nice shot of the sunset.
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Say hello to the crowd.
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Go away, damn tourists!
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After pushing some of them over the edge I ended up with a satisfactory sunset picture 😉
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Even going down was quite tireing in the Laos heat.
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Down again. The night market had already started. On the other side the palace temple.

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