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Published: January 25th 2007
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Buddha Mania!
This was the place with heaps of buddhas, in every triangle thing were 2 little buddhas and this went the whole way around the temple Hello hello from Laos... after spending a whole day feeling sorry for ourselves, we got into action and explored. Setting off on our pushbikes we rode around town checking out the markets, this concrete thing that looks like the arc de triomph and then a temple that had a whopping 6800 buddahs... now, we have definately seen a lot of buddahs!
The next day we hopped on the local bus, along with 50 other people, sitting absolutley anywhere, jess had a great seat on the gear stick... and headed to a place called Buddah park, kinda hard to explain but check out the photos and you can see just how bizarre this place was! It was literally a park with buddhist and hindu statues... we also went to a gold temple, which was pretty amazing as it was just so gold! Darcie randomly ran into 2 gals from Deakin Res in a little cafe, it was just like hey, dude i know them! Pretty small world!
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marianne
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Hi Darc and Jess - i never read a blog before - arent you clever!! it is amazing to see you in cambodia - i know it mainly through kids i have taught who escaped from the killing fields (but not with their parents) so it is haunting to see you walking around freely in those places. its a big comment about human nature isnt it. you are obviously competent travellers already, and i feel that these days i would be daunted by all the little daily challenges you have to face. but do give yourselves a chance to have a rest and withdraw into a book sometime if it gets a bit much. its pretty hard to keep up that level of excitement and energy - but then you are young....!! i saw your parents last night darc - they were in fine culinary and musical form - me and terry creamed david and your mum at canasta - and they say its a game of luck!!! anyhow take care of yourselves and enjoy your riches! i look forward to the next episode! love marianne