Laos

Vientiane

: Say hello to Laos!

: Some of the baggage belonging to our fellow AirLaos passengers in Vientiane. Whatever gets the job done.

: How confident are you about getting from point A to point B when flying out of an airport without a proper ceiling? Willing to put your life on it?

: Spray off all the chunks then dab yourself dry. Perfect

: As the sun sets on our very European-looking part of Vientiane

: Stop! In the name of love

: Fed-up British guy in a condescending t-shirt

: Mmm Beerlao

: What the fuck is “salad cream?”

: Top-notch Laotian advertising

: One of the many lazy, stray Laotian mongrels with monster nips

: If I were born with that many arms I’d be a millionaire right now. One man band, pimpin’ five different instruments at the same time – maestro central, brah, maestro central

: Too many Buddhas, not enough hoz!

: S.I.L.F.

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: Me takin’ it in the ass from a rock-hard dude

: Mouthful at Buddha Park on the outskirts of Vientiane

: Art on the side of the open-mouthed guy

: Same sculpture from the photos previous with people sitting on the top there

: Two-faced son of a bitch!

: Reclining Buddha next to a reclining dude uh-huh

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: Creep

: One of the coolest places I’ve ever been to

: Originally built as a Hindu temple in the 3rd century, Pha That Luang stands at 147-feet-tall and is a national symbol of Laos

: Suck it Pha That Luang!

: Patuxai – An Arch de Triumph replica that’s made of materials the U.S. had once upon a time supplied Laos with to pave airport runways.

: The strange underbelly of Patuxai with depictions of what appear to be magic genies

: The self-deprecating plaque at the base of Patuxai that describes it as a “Monster of Concrete”

: View of Vientiane from atop the Monster of Concrete

: Little sum’n to send back to ma and pa from the Patuxai gift shop

: Sundown in Laotian town – taken through BluBlockers at a dumpy place known as Sunset Bar that’d been a stiff breeze away from tumbling down into the seasonally parched Mekong which it overlooked and overhung

: Statue of 14th Century warlord Fa Ngum flipping off his Thai and Vietnamese enemies in VT

: Typical French-lookin street in Vientiane with our departing tuk-tuk ready to blow this pop stand

Vang Vieng

: The rough road between Vientiane and Vang Vieng

: Menu at the sluggo haven, Happy Pizza, in Vang Vieng, Laos.

: They know exactly who they’re catering to down in VV

: High Swing where I saw more than my fair share of naked Aussie’s wide open Aus-holes as they did “nudies” before takin a plunge

: Another bar full of drunken Western assholes and the wobbly bamboo bridge leading over there

: Kathleen Osh flyin’ down the high zipline. Upon reaching about halfway, the part you hold onto abruptly stops and your body goes flippin’ and flyin’ into the Nam Song River.

: Throwin’ down the usual SUCK IT next to the Osh’s and our Aussie mate, Harry

: Me and my personal bottle of Tiger Whiskey shit-facedly presenting a mediocre ass to the camera somewhere in VV

: Kathleen drawing on a random ass at some rowdy riverside hut of a bar

: Action shot of my healthy stream raining down on a non-flushable dump-guzzler and the barrel full of “toilet paper” to the side of it

: Tim, despite finding a random booger encrusted in the hair on his leg, not too hungover after three days of self-abuse is Vang Vieng

: Me: Diarrhea-blastin and bile-vomitin with my “I am gay” tats in Vientiane airport

Luang Prabang

: “Welcome to Luang Prabang” Loaf of bread at a local French-style bakery

: Luang Prabang, which literally means “Royal Buddha Image,” is in north central Laos and has a population of about 50,000

: Luang Prabang side street

: A streetside billboard to remind you who runs shit in Laos

: Aw youz a nasty gurl ainchu!?

: Squirming dragon heads surrounding a pimp chalice

: Nessy

: Laotian pagoda

: There were so many temples in Luang Prabang that I randomly wandered into without knowing or questioning the names of. Here’s_______Temple

: Ornamental roof design on _____Temple

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: The entrance of _____Temple

: Monks kickin’ it

: Entrance closer up

: Even closer

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: Scary lipstick-face creature

: I don’t know what any of this shit has to do with Buddhism, but here is some art from the temple in the previous pictures that features humans getting tortured in strange ways…

: People being eaten by dogs, people getting sawed in half and a few possible decapitations

: People on fire. Flaming tits on the right and an incendiary queef comin’ out that chick’s crotch in the middle there

: Tongues being ripped out the mouths of naked folks

: Get outta here with that torture porn shit

: Stab fest

: Door to the temple surrounded by slightly more civilized art

: …except for this one with the guy’s head getting cut off in the front of the picture.

: Finally, some serene, peaceful art – the type of shit I normally think of when I think of Buddhism

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: _____Temple in art – seemingly incomplete without naked people getting cut up and what not like in most of the other works at this place

: View of LP from the temple

: Some scenery you might see when wandering from temple to temple

: Ditto the caption in the picture previous

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: Close up of the wall to the left of the posts in the picture previous

: Inside

: Mustache Mermaid Man

: Altar

: Nam Khan River

: Foot bridge across the Nam Khan leading to some thatched roof huts on the other side

: Locals doin’ what they do

: Some dem pretty purple flowers by the riverside

: The red-clown-lipped monsters are everywhere

: Boat ride down the Mekong

: “All you need is Mother Earth, Father Sky and your dear old Uncle Tony” – Tony Perkis, Heavyweights – 1995

: Riverside estates. Not all people in Laos are poor…must belong to government officials

: Everything looks cooler through Blublockers

: Street above some random dock the boat driver decided to drop me off at

: Does taking pictures of flowers make me gay?

: Art for sale

: Old lady

: Mother & Child

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: Wat Xieng Thong – “Golden Tree Monastery”

: Stupa at Wat Xieng Thong

: Enter the Thong

: Inside of that “Thong-Tha-Thong-Thong-Thong”

: “Snakes…Snakes…I don’t know no Snakes.”

: Buddha practicing his O-Line pass blocking for the upcoming football season

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: Temple with the tent of a street vender posted up in the forefront

: Futuristic outer space alien robot donger