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Bun Wat Phu 2000

Last updated: 08.05.2002

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Novice monks
Novices at the Bun Wat Phu festival, Champasak. [67K]

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Young novice
Novice monk seated on Khmer masonry, Wat Phu Champasak. [59K]

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Novices at Bun Wat Phu
Novice monks at the Bun Wat Phu festival, February 2000. [53K]

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Bun Wat Phu
Festival-goers at the Bun Wat Phu festival, February 2000. [66K]

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Going to Bun Wat Phu
Crossing the river between Ban Muang and Ban Phaphin on the way to Bun Wat Phu. [35K]

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Ferry across the Mekong at Ban Phaphin
Sunset over the Mekong from the deck of an improvised vehicle ferry carrying festival traffic. [41K]

Photographs taken at the Bun Wat Phu festival, Wat Phu Champasak, Laos in 2000.

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The three-day festival of Bun Wat Phu is part of the Magha Puja celebration, which takes place on the full moon of the third lunar month and which commemorates a speech given by the Buddha.
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