Plain of Jars

Because I didn't write at all last year, I'm using some of my old pictures for now.

These are from Lao New Year, which is in April. For Lao New Year, Julia and I went to Xieng Khouang, a province up north in the mountains. In Xieng Khouang, there is a plain of jars that are made from stone. Some of the jars are 6 or more feet tall and 6 or more feet across. They're huge!

No one really knows what these are from. Some legends say that giants used to live here and they made the jars to keep their rice whiskey in. Another one is that they were made to collect rain water to use during the dry season. Who knows?

The weather was so nice and cool up in the mountains!! It was a high of only 70 or so for a couple of days. In Vientiane the temperature was right at a hundred, so it was a welcome relief! 

 The road getting there was very dusty though! :P April is towards the end of dry season, so there was dust everywhere! Not so fun.