GNG5287648: 20151104, Nam Ngum, Laos : Nam Ngum lake. Boy steering a traditional Lao motor boat / Bridgeman Images

GNG5287766: Vang Vieng, Laos : Hotel workers in a resort lost in the rice fields / Bridgeman Images

GNG5287684: 20151031, Vang Vieng, Laos : Agriculture. Rice field. Lao farmer harvesting rice / Bridgeman Images

GNG5287728: 20151031, Vang Vieng, Laos : Agriculture. Rice field. Lao farmer harvesting rice / Bridgeman Images

GNG5287779: Vang Vieng, Laos : Agriculture. Lao farmer wearing traditional hat / Bridgeman Images

GNG5287801: 20151101, Vang Vieng, Laos : Rice fields with stunning mountain back drop / Bridgeman Images

GNG5287956: 20151106, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Si Muang ( Simuong) buddhist temple / Bridgeman Images

GNG5287756: 20151102, Vang Vieng, Laos : Agriculture. Rice field. Lao farmers harvesting rice in rural lanscape / Bridgeman Images

GNG5287824: 20151101, Vang Vieng, Laos : Agriculture. Rice fields with stunning mountain back drop / Bridgeman Images

GNG5287922: 20151029, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Inpeng buddhist temple. Dharma Wheel / Bridgeman Images

GNG5287954: 20151030, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Si Muang ( Simuong) buddhist temple. Lotus flowers Offered in Lao shrine / Bridgeman Images

GNG5287975: 20151029, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Si Muang ( Simuong) buddhist temple. The future Buddha shaves off his hair to become a monk / Bridgeman Images

GNG5287989: 20151103, Kasi, Laos : Painting depicting the life story of Shakyamuni Buddha / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288062: 20151102, Vang Vieng, Laos : Painting depicting the life story of Shakyamuni Buddha. Reclining Buddha / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288075: 20151029, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Inpeng buddhist temple. The Jataka Tales are narratives about the previous lives of the Buddha (that is, before he was born for the last time to become the Buddha) / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288131: 20151105, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Ong Teu buddhist temple. Buddhist monks having vegetarian lunch in monastery / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288146: Vang Vieng, Laos : The Buddhasima or Sim: the Buddhist temple's most sacred complex. Group of seated, young Buddhist monks chanting and reading prayers at a ceremony / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288193: 20151030, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Si Muang ( Simuong) buddhist temple. Buddhist ceremony. Sai-sin and the sacred white cotton thread. The Sai-sin is supposed to provide protection and good health to the person wearing it / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288049: 20151029, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Si Muang ( Simuong) buddhist temple. Painting depicting the life story of Shakyamuni Buddha / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288223: 20151029, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Si Muang ( Simuong) buddhist temple. Buddhist ceremony / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288234: 20151106, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Naxai buddhist temple. Buddhist ceremony for the dead / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288085: 20151028, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Ong Teu buddhist temple. Buddhist monk / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288258: 20151030, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Si Muang ( Simuong) buddhist temple. Monk reading sutras on a traditional buddhist holy book / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288110: 20151105, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Ong Teu buddhist temple. Seated women chanting and reading prayers at a ceremony / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288138: 20151028, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Ong Teu buddhist temple. Buddhist monks having vegetarian lunch in monastery / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288180: 20151031, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Si Muang ( Simuong) buddhist temple. Buddhist monks having vegetarian lunch in monastery / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288192: 20151031, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Si Muang ( Simuong) buddhist temple. Buddhist monks having vegetarian lunch in monastery / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288245: 20151029, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Si Muang ( Simuong) buddhist temple. Buddhist novice monk in his house / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288257: 20151030, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Si Muang ( Simuong) buddhist temple. Buddhist monk. Portrait / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288262: 20151030, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Si Muang ( Simuong) buddhist temple. Novice buddhist monk / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288004: 20151030, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Si Muang ( Simuong) buddhist temple. Painting depicting the life story of Shakyamuni Buddha. Buddha sitting in the meditation pose under the Bodhi tree / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288013: 20151029, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Inpeng buddhist temple. Painting depicting the life story of Shakyamuni Buddha / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288027: 20151029, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Inpeng buddhist temple. Painting depicting the life story of Shakyamuni Buddha / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288043: 20151029, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Inpeng buddhist temple. Painting depicting the life story of Shakyamuni Buddha. Buddha sitting in the meditation pose / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288091: 20151029, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Si Muang ( Simuong) buddhist temple. Painting depicting the life story of Shakyamuni Buddha / Bridgeman Images

GNG5288113: 20151105, Vientiane, Laos : Wat Ong Teu buddhist temple. Novice monk using a mobile phone / Bridgeman Images