As it's Sunday, I thought I would share photos from the Buddhist alms giving ceremony that we participated in this week in the UNESCO World heritage city of Luang Prabang. Laos is an amazing holiday destination and we frequently asked ourselves why it has taken us so long to get here? 1. Laos is Authentic: it's real, it's raw. It's is one of the world's least developed countries where you appreciate the simple pleasures, whether it is a stunning landscape or walking through streets and villages where time seems to have stopped still. We were invited to take part in the alms giving ceremony by our hotel the Sofitel in Luang Prabang, who every day at dawn provides food for the monks outside their sister hotel the 3 Nagas. Having witnessed the schmozzle of badly behaved tourists at Mandalay in Myanmar last year, I was a bit nervous about the cultural appropriateness of this. This had degenerated into a weird ...
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