Monk watching in Luang Prabang is a big tourist past time. I’ve been here a few times but never got it together to drag myself out of bed in the inky pre-dawn light to see the alms giving. I don’t want to talk too much about it, but it made me hate my white skin and big camera even more than I did before. The most interesting part of it was that the monks had to walk past tryptichs depicting before, during and after shots of road accidents. Bizarrely they all strolled past, eyes locked on the images.

Luang Prabang is lovely. There is some amazing food and it is easy to hang out here. I stayed for days just wandering around and drinking coffees, eating street food and making new friends. But I won’t ever get up at the crack of dawn to participate in the tourist circus of alms giving along the main street in Luang Prabang.

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