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Fishermen, Luang Prabang, Laos

Apr-2009

Laos people are famously relaxed, so I was told prior my travel. I certainly found this to be true wherever i went. Here fishermen joking after work, just a few meters down the embankment from the historic temples in Luang Prabang, UNESCO World Heritage site. However, a scene like this may be a thing of the past now. A hydropower dam built further downstream in the last years has raised water levels by some 2m here and changed life in and along the once mighty river. I don't know if fishing like this is still happening right here.

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