April 14th
The second day of our stay in Vientiane we decided to get out of the city and escape the watery mayhem and go to the Buddha park... or so we thought.
(Sash, Laura, Amy, me)
Out tuktuk ended up being a moving target, and we were drenched within 5 minutes of getting in. The whole of Vientiane was still in Party Mode, every second house had loud music, lots of lao lao (rice wine) that they even stopped our tuktuk so we could have shots, and hoses, and big tubs of water. It seemed that it was rude to not stop, so everytime someone ran on to the road to slow our tuktuk down , our driver stopped and water tipped or thrown at us and our cheeks rubbed with talcum powder, this happened at every house we passed with screams of 'SABA DEE PII MAI'. But finally 1 whole hour later we got to the park.
It was created in 1958 by a Luang Pu Bunleua Sulilat who was a self proclaimed yogi-priest-shaman who wanted to merge hindu and buddhist mytholgy into a whole, and the concrete statues he built are pretty cool.
And incase you were wondering - the guy on the statue is playing the flute with his nose.
The photo of the street, is from our guesthouse balcony, under the awning was packed with people, and they started partying at 7.30 everymorning turning on the stereo, till 8 at night, it was so much fun.
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