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Post Info TOPIC: Have you ever seen this style of graveyard in Laos ?
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Have you ever seen this style of graveyard in Laos ?
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This graveyard located in Southern Laos, Champasak province. It has a very unique style and totally different from other graveyard in Laos.

Have you ever seen this before?

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This graveyard is in this temple compartment.





From the appearance, this temple was influenced by the French achitecture ?

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My dad's village in Champassak has a place just like that, the graveyard that is. I didn't know it was uncommon.

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It is not a graveyard. They are not 'graves'. A grave is a six foot hole in the ground where a corpse is buried.  These are different. There must be a better word. What is it called in lao language?

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i think its called a taht as in  taht louang  and its very typical in laos they cremate the person whose passed on and store there ashes in there i think thats how they did it also

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A better word than a "graveyard" is a cemetery. I've never seen those kind of "taht" before, not in a form of lotus, looks much like in Siamese style. The viharn itself looks a mix of French and Siamese or Khmer style, which is common to find in southern part of Laos.
Where is this? my guess is Muang Khong or Muang Champasak.

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