Songkran Bangkok

Water everywhere
Guys came under devastating douche. Songkran 2014, Silom road, Bangkok.

Boys and guns
Boys enjoy water battle. Songkran 2014, Silom road, Bangkok.

Songkran #8
Songkran 2014, Silom road, Bangkok.

Songkran Pattaya

Songkran #1
Boy douse stranger from bowl. Soi Nern Plub Wan, East Pattaya. Songkran 2014

Party on the beach
Girls dancing on stage. Pattaya Beach road, Songkran 2014

Songkran #2
Water fight at soi 8, Pattaya. Songkran 2014.

Ready to fight
European joins the battle. Songkran 2014 at Pattaya.

Heavy artillery
Firefighters on truck shoot water at passers. Songkran 2014, Pattaya.

Songkran #5
Firefighter with water cannon. Songkran 2014, Pattaya.

Water cannon
Water cannon in action. Spiral jet from fire truck. Songkran 2014, Pattaya.

Vientiane, Laos #2

Wat Thatluang Neua
Wat Thatluang Neua, Ban Nongbone.

Wat That Luang #2
Beautiful temple in Pha That Luang compound.

Back in USSR!
Communist flags in Vientiane.

Beeline
Russian mobile company in... Laos o.O

UN building
Unated Nations building at Vientiane

Wat That Foun #2
Nice temple and monastery in Vientiane, Laos. Not far from Patuxai.

Wat That Foun #5
Nice temple and monastery in Vientiane, Laos. Not far from Patuxai.

Chao Anouvong Park
Chao Anouvong, or regnal name Xaiya Setthathirath V, (1767-1829), led the Laotian Rebellion (1826-1829) as the last monarch of the Lao Kingdom of Vientiane.

Pizza company
Some contrast: Pizzeria in a third world country. Unexpected? Building opposite Thai consulate.

Pub at Vientiane
just one lao beer...

Ho Phra Keo

Ho Phra Keo Museum
Haw Phra Kaew is a former temple in Vientiane, Laos. It is situated on Setthathirath Road, to the southeast of Wat Si Saket. The interior now houses a museum and a small shop

Ho Phra Keo
Haw Phra Kaew was built in 1565-1566 on the orders of King Setthathirath. The temple housed the Emerald Buddha figurine, which Setthathirath had brought from Chiang Mai, then the capital of Lanna, to Luang Prabang.

Ho Phra Keo #2
Bronze Buddha statues at Haw Phra Kaew

Ho Phra Kaew #2
Temple in Vientiane

Haw Pha Kaeo
Temple in Vientiane

Ho Phra Kaew
Haw Phra Kaew. Temple in Vientiane, Laos.

Nice temple at Laos
Haw Phra Kaew. Temple in Vientiane, Laos.