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Its historical significance and beauty makes it a crying shame that this area was pulverized by the bombing campaigns in the ’60’s and ’70’s.\u00a0 Some craters still exist, and per order of MAG (Mines Advisory Group) you are not to stray from the path, unless you want to encounter a rusty 40 year old cluster munition, bomb, or other weapon of war.\u00a0 This area had so much sky and earth.\u00a0 From the moment we stepped off the plane to the carefree posing next to the jars, I\u00a0could not get over\u00a0how mythical this\u00a0place was.\u00a0 So busy calculating compositions of the stones and people, figuring out the time value to adequately expose the earth and sky, and not even really thinking about just putting the camera down…and just sitting there.<\/p>\n
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Looking back at the photos, I realized that the best images were the ones that didn’t focus solely on the jars, they were the ones of us.\u00a0 Most had never been to the plain of jars, only read about it.\u00a0 To this day archaeologists have no clue as to who\u00a0made them.\u00a0 This area of Laos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,59,7],"tags":[58,287,65,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-1054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-lao-culture","8":"category-laos-trip","9":"category-photos","10":"tag-laos","11":"tag-photos","12":"tag-plain-of-jars","13":"tag-xieng-khouang","15":"post-with-thumbnail","16":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/00024.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelE0-h0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1061,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/lathsene-village-preschool-xieng-khouang\/","url_meta":{"origin":1054,"position":0},"title":"Lathsene Village Preschool, Xieng Khouang","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"August 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This was the site for a new preschool in Lathsene Village in Xieng Khouang province, part of a \u201cSchools Not Bombs\u201d campaign.\u00a0 The village is somewhat remote, past the plains of jars site one, and nestled in farmland and cornfields.\u00a0 The village has no electricity and the earthy pastureland smell\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Lao Culture"","block_context":{"text":"Lao Culture","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/category\/lao-culture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/00021.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1059,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/jia-thuy-and-the-plain-of-jars\/","url_meta":{"origin":1054,"position":1},"title":"Jia, Thuy and the Plain of Jars","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"August 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I got up early once again and decided to walk around Phonsavanh, Xieng Khouang. 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