I love standing next to reclining Buddhas, this is not the first and will probably not be the last.
We did do some serious touring through a site that is helping people still being blown up by cluster bombs we dropped on Laos in the Viet Nam war. Bombs are still going off in fields when children find them and think they are toys or farmers hit them. There are evidently many, many thousands of bombs still in the ground.
Now after that sobering thought we get on to embedding ourselves in Laos. Grasshoppers and crickets for appetizers. I was messy on removing the winds of my grasshopper but got better as I went along. The photo is of my wings and the cricket I was about to devour. Much better in dipping sauce.
Just like home, the guide took home the left over bugs in a doggy bag
Did you get grasshoppers to go???
Our guide took all the leftovers home in his doggy bag. See photo of him filling his bag