Morning Market, Vientiane

The morning market in Laos has been replaced by a multi-story shopping mall… Vientiane has been hugely developed in the seven years I’ve been travelling there. The best way to describe it is as a medium-size Thai city with more third-world bright color gaudiness and even more garbage on the streets.

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We stopped by a coffee shop where the waitresses wore silk skirts and platform shoes.

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We sat at a really cool coffee bean-filled table.
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Then we got photobombed by an angry old man.
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