#Wat Phou

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by Bâ„®n on Flickr.The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Vat Phou, hidden in the jungle of Laos and rediscovered in 1914.

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by Bâ„®n on Flickr.The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Vat Phou, hidden in the jungle of Laos and rediscovered in 1914.

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by Bâ„®n on Flickr.The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Vat Phou, hidden in the jungle of Laos and rediscovered in 1914.

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by Bâ„®n on Flickr.The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Vat Phou, hidden in the jungle of Laos and rediscovered in 1914.

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by Bâ„®n on Flickr.The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Vat Phou, hidden in the jungle of Laos and rediscovered in 1914.

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by Bâ„®n on Flickr.The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Vat Phou, hidden in the jungle of Laos and rediscovered in 1914.

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Vat Phou Temple a World Heritage site Champasak @Haliscelife

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Angkor to Ayutthaya: Tracing the Khmer Empire's Legacy

Explore the rise and fall of the Khmer Empire, its architectural wonders, and the mysteries of its decline through iconic sites like Angkor Wat.

via The Star, 29 January 2024: The Khmer Empire, flourishing from the 9th to the 15th centuries, once dominated Southeast Asia, leaving behind architectural marvels like Angkor Wat. This article highlights some of the major Angkorian sites which can be found not only in Cambodia, but in neighbouring Thailand and Laos as well. The Khmer Empire was one of the most powerful in the region from the…

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Vat Phou is a pre-Angkor Temple Complex located in the Laos region. It is an original architectural model for the popular temple complex named Angkor Wat located in Cambodia. The final image depicted a stone crafted into a crocodile shape and used for human sacrification.

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Day Nineteen, Part One: “The Land of a Million Elephants”

My first full day in Laos began with a climb up the 355 steps to the top of Mount Phousi. (Phou = mountain; Si = sacred; so, Mount Phousi technically means “Mount Sacred Mountain” much like Sahara Desert means “The Desert Desert”).

Now, those who know me well will be aware of my aversion to climb to the top of anything, even if it’s 35 steps and not 355. So, why was I doing this? I suppose it was basically on the principle of “When in Luang Prabang … “

The journey did, I’ll admit, allow me to see a number of things I wouldn’t have seen otherwise. For instance, there are seven statues of the Buddha, one for each day of the week, in seven different poses, each with a different meaning. Today’s Buddha, the Tuesday Buddha, is the Buddha of repose, which I take to mean “What were you thinking climbing up 355 steps? You should rest more.”

At one point, a bomb casing was repurposed as a planter, sort of a “swords into plowshares” concept.

There is also a small shrine of the Buddha’s footprint. Throughout Asia, you find about as many footprints of the Buddha as you find “fragments of the true cross” in Gothic churches throughout Europe, so feel free to draw your own conclusion.

We also passed a monastic school where a class of novices was studying English,

as well as a group of novices on its way to lessons.

At the foot of Mount Phousi, we explored Wat Mai Suwannaphumaham (“The New Temple of the Golden Land”), which contains hundred of statues of the Buddha.

The Emerald Buddha that is now in Thailand was originally in this temple, so glass reproductions of it appear instead. I'd end up seeing that Emerald (actually Jade) Buddha later in my travels.

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Photo by B℮n on flickr｜© all rights reserved Please take your time... and enjoy it large on black In the south of Laos, in Champasak Province near the Cambodian border, some 200 km from Angkor Wat and about a one hour drive from Pakse on a good road, is the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Vat Phou.

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[ad_1] By Anjali Sharma WASHINGTON – India Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held bilateral talks with Prime Minister of Lao PDR Sonexay Siphandone in Vientiane and congratulated on successfully hosting the 21st ASEAN-India and 19th East Asia Summits. They held productive talks on strengthening India-Laos civilizational and contemporary ties. Both leaders discussed various areas of bilateral cooperation such as development partnership, capacity building, disaster management, renewable energy, heritage restoration, economic ties, defence collaboration, and people-to-people ties. PM Siphandone thanked Mr Modi for India’s flood relief assistance provided to Lao PDR in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi. They noted that the ongoing restoration and conservation of Vat Phou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, under Indian assistance by the Archaeological Survey of India imparts a special dimension to bilateral ties. Both leaders expressed satisfaction at the close cooperation between the countries in regional and multilateral fora. Siphandone reaffirmed India’s role on the international stage. India has strongly supported Lao PDR’s Chairmanship of ASEAN for 2024. MoUs/ Agreements in the fields of defence, broadcasting, Customs cooperation, and three Quick Impact Projects under the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation were exchanged in the presence of the two leaders, according to Ministry of External affairs The QIPs relate to preservation of heritage of Lao Ramayan, restoration of Wat Pakea Buddhist temple with murals related to Ramayan, and support to shadow puppetry theatre on Ramayan in Champasak province. All three QIPs have a Government of India grant assistance of about $ 50000 each. India will also provide a grant assistance of about $ one million to improve nutrition security in Lao PDR. This assistance through the India UN Development Partnership Fund, will be the Fund’s first such project in South-East Asia. Modi also met his Thai counterpart Paetongtarn Shinawatra. This was the first meeting between them. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] By Anjali Sharma WASHINGTON – India Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held bilateral talks with Prime Minister of Lao PDR Sonexay Siphandone in Vientiane and congratulated on successfully hosting the 21st ASEAN-India and 19th East Asia Summits. They held productive talks on strengthening India-Laos civilizational and contemporary ties. Both leaders discussed various areas of bilateral cooperation such as development partnership, capacity building, disaster management, renewable energy, heritage restoration, economic ties, defence collaboration, and people-to-people ties. PM Siphandone thanked Mr Modi for India’s flood relief assistance provided to Lao PDR in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi. They noted that the ongoing restoration and conservation of Vat Phou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, under Indian assistance by the Archaeological Survey of India imparts a special dimension to bilateral ties. Both leaders expressed satisfaction at the close cooperation between the countries in regional and multilateral fora. Siphandone reaffirmed India’s role on the international stage. India has strongly supported Lao PDR’s Chairmanship of ASEAN for 2024. MoUs/ Agreements in the fields of defence, broadcasting, Customs cooperation, and three Quick Impact Projects under the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation were exchanged in the presence of the two leaders, according to Ministry of External affairs The QIPs relate to preservation of heritage of Lao Ramayan, restoration of Wat Pakea Buddhist temple with murals related to Ramayan, and support to shadow puppetry theatre on Ramayan in Champasak province. All three QIPs have a Government of India grant assistance of about $ 50000 each. India will also provide a grant assistance of about $ one million to improve nutrition security in Lao PDR. This assistance through the India UN Development Partnership Fund, will be the Fund’s first such project in South-East Asia. Modi also met his Thai counterpart Paetongtarn Shinawatra. This was the first meeting between them. [ad_2] Source link