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| The morning gathering of alms |
Every morning somewhere between 5:30-6:30 people in Luange Prabang [including some tourists] gather to pass out "alms" in the form of food, to the local Monks. Sellers hock rice- some of it freshly cooking on the street and baskets of bananas and other fruit to give to the Monks who at around 6-6:30 walk along with street with big metal bowls in which to gather "breakfast"- and probably lunch and dinner as well.
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| Early morning rice sellers |
Most of the photos I took are a bit of a blur-too early in the morning [dark, not dim like my mind], so I hope you can make them out....I have a video, but it will have to wait for another time...I am not having success loading it up here for now.
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| Monks gather food from the locals |
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Great shots..looking foward to the "slide" evening when you return.
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K xo
Alms giving is a beautiful custom, I believe Luangprabang is one of the few places in the world to keep this going. I love it. I read it's dying out in Thailand. Kevin
ReplyDeleteI see Mrs Dao there who is the sticky rice queen of Luangprabang. I got to know this family and had lovely conversations using sign language or they just spoke to me in Lao, so I just smiled and nodded.
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