Vientiane

Hi all

I'm back from the land of grumps now and my head is back where it should be......
Today we walked our way around most of the centre of the capital, which is not hard when you think that the population of this tiny city is only 300,000!

We spent an extraordinary large amount of time trying to find the COPE centre which helps victims of UXO make the limbs they so desperately need, but we got completely & utterly lost. (we will try again tomorrow!). We had more success with the next place on our list  the very old and beautiful Wat Si Sake, which is the oldest temple in Vientiane some of it dating back to the15th century. It was full of over 2000 buddhas in little niches around the courtyard and another 300+ which were either standing or sitting, which had been donated from different provinces and neighbouring countries over the years.

Off for a beer Lao now ...............


Hugs
Sara