Only recently, the Lao government made the palace into a museum. Much of the original furnishings were still there. There were beautiful old (1000 year old) Buddah statues on display. Cameras were not allowed, so I took a shot of the palace, the house Wat, and the sign for the Royal theatre. Notice the word royal was chiseled away and painted over. One room was devoted to gifts to the royal family from countries around the world. In 1969, the U.S. gave the family a plastic model of the lunar rover from Apollo 11 and some tiny moon rocks incased in glass. The royal garage had two Lincolns an Edsel and a Citroen. For trips around town, the royal driver prefered the Citroen. It had a manual transmission. It was lovely museum.
My bus is due any minute, so I better wrap up. This sign was on a shop front door. I REALLY wanted to knock!Doahlah
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