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 Architecturally, Luang Phabang is a real
mix. Old Chinese-style buildings, with brick bottom layers and wooden
upper floors and colorful carved balconies, sit beside old French colonial villas. You also
Lao-French houses with the Lao/Thai finger-like hooks on the roofs, which designed to trap
spirits).
And then, everywhere you turn, there are the wats. Luang Phabang is
a major center of Buddhist teaching and learning so there are hundreds
of wats that have been inhabited by monks for centuries.
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