Dave Williams wrote: > > On the first day, we drove out of Vientiane toward Vang Vieng. We stopped > along to way to visit some recently discovered Buddhist images carved into > the cliff-sides. They were discovered when a road was cut into the jungle > for harvesting trees. One of the most interesting aspects of this "find" is > the fact that the date etched into the stone predates what was thought to be > the beginning of Buddhism in Lao by 1,000 years! How recent is recent? Those sound like the images we vistied in 1975, when we (me, Meg, and 10 month old daughter) were among the last American tourists in Laos for a long time. Sort of squarish Buddhas, gilded--or at least colored gold? We had to hike in with a 10-year-old as a guide. Crossed at leasst single-log bridge, as I recall. Steve *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Oct 11 1999 - 05:48:03 PDT
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