Buddha Park, Outside Vientiane, Laos Photo 7

Buddha Park, Outside Vientiane, Laos

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April 3rd 2009
Known to the Lao people as Xieng Khuan (Spirit City), this park was built in 1958 by a yogi-priest-shaman Bunleua Silulat. He fused Buddhist and Hindu images in over 200 statues creating a very surreal environment to spend an afternoon. It sits on the banks of the Mekong River that separates this part of Laos from the Isaan area of Thailand. There is also a counterpart just on the othe ... read more

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Laos was under the control of Siam (Thailand) from the late 18th century until the late 19th century when it became part of French Indochina. The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1907 defined the current Lao border with Thailand. In 1975, the Communist Pathe... ... read more