A Buddhist monk walking past a Buddhist temple in Northern Laos

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Muang Ngoi in the far north east of Laos is just a few miles from the Vietnamese border and the Old French outpost at 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 Ngoi Northern Laos
Photo credit: © Malcolm McDougall Photography / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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