Post #379671 by atomictonytiki on Mon, May 12, 2008 1:11 AM

Woo on fire on the posting today, so then we crossed the boarder in to the wonderful...

LAO P.D.R. (people don't rush)

I guess the tiki-est thing we saw in an Thor Heyerdahl sort of way was up in Phonsavan the slightly amazing PLAIN OF JARS, yes an entire area covered in giant stone jars. Who built them? no one knows perhaps they are stone graves or perhaps they are the wine jars made for the victory celebration of a mythical king.

Some of the biggest of these jars weigh upwards of forty tons and are thought to be 2000 years old.

Now that's my size of mug.

Thanks to some incredibly bloody fighting around the plain of jars in the last forty years, the jars are not in the best condition, severe chipping to large cracks to the sort of damage that could get them listed on the "tiki mug misfortunes" thread. This Jar has a lid fitted, not original like flea market mr bali hai with a Omc pineapple lid, but just one from close by.

Finaly from Luangprabang, check out these lovely carvings of the mythical Mekong river serpent the Naga, you know where Naugahyde comes from.

[ Edited by: atomictonytiki 2008-09-14 05:26 ]