Plain of Jars, Phonsavan

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Phonsavan, Plain of Jars. We left Luang Prabang and headed on down to a little dusty town where, scattered in the surrounding highland hills, lie huge jars that where carved from heavy stone boulders and somehow dragged to these sites and left to rest on these evergreen grassy hill sides. It is amazing that these jars survived the Vietnamese / American war, as over 2 million tons of ordinance was dropped on Loas during this time - more than what was dropped on Germany and Japan in WWII - and most of the world never knew, go figure.

We took these sites in with a few other couples: Irish, American and British. The day was one of interest and wonder as we were transported from site to site in our super swift van. Locals always know the best dirt roads....

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Photos

Plain of Jars - site 1
Just to give you some idea of how many Jars there are!

Plain 1
Nats and Jar

Plain of Jars - site 2
Luke decides to take a closer look

Plain of Jars - site 2
WARNINGS!!! Landmines are a very big reality in the lives of the Loas people...and even we had to watch where we walked