Category: Photos du Jour (Photo of the Day)

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  Photo Du Jour: Street Art For Sale in Luang Prabang

  With vivid strokes and vibrant hues, artists depict Buddha, saffron-clad monks, and shimmering banyan trees on delicate paper. This artwork can be found in Luang Prabang’s night market, as well as at stands set up along the town’s brick sidewalks. If you’re lucky, you might even spot the paper as it’s being made, drying in the…

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  Photo Du Jour: A Tricycle Commute in Banaue, the Philippines

  In the small town of Banaue, which is perched high in the Cordillera Mountains overlooking 2,000 year-old-rice terraces, a girl rides on the back of a tricycle. Tricycles are a popular form of public transportation in the Philippines. They’re the equivalent of a tuktuk (Thailand) or rickshaw (India).

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  Photo Du Jour: Grass-Cutting Meets Motorcycling – Penang, Malaysia

  A motorcyclist cuts grass on the island of Penang, in Malaysia.

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  Photo Du Jour: Quasi Cupid at Laos’ Buddha Park

  It’s not your traditional Valentine’s Day imagery, yet these captures from our recent visit to Buddha Park — just outside of Vientiane, Laos — seemed so Cupid Day’esque.

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  Photo du Jour: A Grassy Shrine and A Rainbow Tuktuk – Laos

  A tuktuk sits on a hill overlooking grass-covered That Foun (also called That Chomsi). The brick stupa (Buddhist shrine) was built in 1576 in an ancient capital city, Xieng Khuang, in present-day Muang Khoun (northeastern Laos). In the 19th century, Chinese bandits tunnelled into the stupa’s interior, creating the entryway that is visible today. They spirited away…

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  Photo du Jour: Sunset Over the Mekong – Luang Prabang, Laos

  ‘Twas a lovely manner in which to be greeted in our newest home away from home city: a tangerine-colored sun swiftly slipping behind the mountains, slow boats gracefully coasting along the Mekong, and merchants carrying hundreds of baskets of oranges from the boats to trucks waiting on the quay. Ah, lovely Luang Prabang!