There's so much to see in Luang Prabang_____All Photos ©Peter Whittlesey
 
The views from Wat Chop Phet across the Mekong and from the top of Phusi are beautiful and of course the sa paper making is fascinating

   
A view of Bai, Peter's wife, on top of Phusi overlooking Luang Prabang


Looking east from the top of Phusi


Looking at Phusi from across the Mekong at Wat Chom Phet


A group photo at Wat Chom Phet with Phusi in the background


Inside the temple at Wat Chom Phet


As the saying goes "Leave only footprints, take on memories" and so many we have


An artistic perspective of the child's footprint


The trail from the Wat Chom Phet to Wat Long Khun


Monks sitting by the main sim at Wat Long Khun framed by hibiscus flowers


A most unusual and beautiful flower I saw along the trail


Dok Champa or Frangipani or Sandalwood flowers, the national flower of Laos


Peter with some boys walking up the steps into Wat Long Khun


Bill Hutchet took this photo of these Hmong girls carrying steamed corn to sell


Young girl pounding sa bark as the first step in making sa paper


Distributing pulp in the watery mixture before drying in the frame


Making sa paper with hibiscus flower petals


Pressing hibiscus flowers in the sa paper mixture


Hibiscus sa paper dance 1


Hibiscus sa paper dance 2


Drying sa paper on the main street in Luang Prabang by Wat Xieng Thong


Making cards with sa paper


A Japanese artist apprenticing at a sa paper gallery


I like her sa paper "sculpture" with the inclusion of barbed wire