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Lao.
Photos from villages on Mekong river.    Rice steaming.
  View of the village.
    Bamboo - the main building material.
   Paper making process.
 Handmade paper ***.
   
Silk worms are fed by mulberry until become ready to spin.
After they are put into a basket and covered. Then cocoons
are put into hot water. Each cocoon can give 600m long offilament.
Silk making process
 Cocoons placed in hot water.
 Natural dyes.
 Twisting.
 Weaving.
      Different patterns.
 Entrance to the Pak Ou cave.
  The main warhip place
 View from the cave
 More than 4000 Budhas inside.
 Writings.
 
Luang Prabang, the
ancient capital of Lao.  Wat Chieng Tong shrine.
 Alm procession of budist monks.
 Mosaic decoration.
 Myanmar photos.
 The oldest woman in willage.
   Pounder.
 Schoolgirl.
 Little monks.
  Rice fields.
The Enn ethnic group, called the "black teet" people, are
still animists. They are dressed in distinctively different costumes and believe to other spirits.    The banana tree.
 Akha village women.
  Silver head covering.
  Frogs on the roof :(
       Gate.
Ricewine is being prepared in
handmade glue pots.   Handcraft.
  Young woman with a child.
 Bufalo market.
 Mandalay monks.
 Sacrifices for Buddha*.
 Little bufalo.
 Green mamba.
 Wood carving.
Handcrafts are the part of daily life.
 Different patterns.
     Lotus textile.
 Lotus*.
 Lotus threads.
 Bag.
 Jacket's back decoration.
 Cap's decoration.
  Weaving.
 Needlework.
Ancient music traditions are
still alive in countryside.    Oozi.
 Saung (harp).
  200 years old U-Bein bridge*.
  Hi!*.
Inle lake is famous for floating vegetations and
floating houses. People living in Inle are called Intha.
 Inle lake fishemen.
 Tabacco leaves.
 Little girl on a ceremony.
 Life on water.
 Smith's workshop.
 Carts prepared for girls.
 Boy dressed as a prince.
 Floating market*.
 Phaungdawoo Pagoda.
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Bagan - the largest temples site in the whole of
South East Asia.  Ayryarwaddy river on sunrise.
 Over 2000 Pagodas in Bagan.
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 Sunset in Bagan.
 The view from the baloon.
  Girl with the sun protection powder on face.
  No pohibition for smoking.
World famous Shwedagon Pagoda, the most venerable worship place in
South East Asia.   Best guide of Myanmar :)
   Kambodia photos.
 Angkor war.
    Bayon's inner gallery.
 Pandava warriors. Angkor Wat.
 Banteay Srei temple fragment.
The Bayon - state temple of Jayavarman VII
symbolic centre of the universe and empire.  Face tower, Bayon.
 Angkor Thom gate.
 Khmer's descendants :)
  Buddha.
Romantic atmosphere with opportuinities
to explore in Ta Prohm temple.  
The strangler fig roots becomes a support for ruins.
 Ta-Prohm temple monastery.
 Roots of silk-cotton tree.
 Ruins.
  
Khmer's warshipped
Shiva primarily in the form of a linga.  
Prasat Kravan temple.
Lakshimi and attendants.  Devata.
  Different colours of sandstone.
 Laterite was ideal for foundations.
photos by Audra Zili
* photos by Edvinas M.
** photos by Inga M.
*** photos by Igor C.
All images are copyright protected, Audra Zili 2004, ©
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