Four Buddhist monks stand outside their temple in the small rural village of Muang Ngoi in north eastern Laos

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Muang Ngoi and the surrounding landscape in the far north east of Laos is just a few miles from the Vietnamese border and Dien Bien Phu only reached by boat trip up the Nam Ou river, it is a one dirt track village which was a communist stronghold during the French Indo China and part of the Ho Chi Minh trail in the second IndoChina war and was heavily bombed by the American air force in the mid sixties

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Size: 5128px × 3412px
Location: Muang Ngoy, Luang Prabang Province, Laos
Photo credit: © Malcolm McDougall Photography / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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