Digital backpacker 2000: Laos, Savannakhet

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Laos Picture by Ben van den Anker
Travel story: Digital backpacker 2000: Laos, Savannakhet

Seven hundred years ago the daughter of a Brahmin priest, Nang Noppamoht, lit the candle on her little, lotus shaped, boat made of banana leaves and put in into the water. Slowly the boat, full with flowers, drifted away on the high river. It was meant as a ritualizing attempt to stop the rains, letting the bad luck sail away out your life. Now, this is being celebrated as the Loy Krathong fesival. Dew takes me to wat Arun, next to the Chao Phrae river. The temple compounds are crowded with... More