Young Laotian girl from Luang Prabang, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Young Laotian girl in traditional dress holding a red parasol, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

A young girl with her dog, Luang Prabang, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Portrait of two girls at play time in Luang Prabang City, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Religious rites, Pha That Luang, Vientiane, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Village child near Luang Prabang, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Children playing in a village, Plain of Jars, Phonsavan, Xieng Khouang, Laos

Bar under palm trees, Mekong river after sunset, Luang Prabang, Laos

Monks collecting alms before sunrise, Luang Prabang, Laos

Young woman working on handmade silk fabrics in a village nearby Pak Ou caves obove Mekong river north of Luang Prabang, Laos

Buddhist monks, novices, cladding their robes, Phu Si hill, Luang Prabang, Laos

Golden Nagas and Buddhist monk, novice, Wat Luang, Pakse, Laos

Buddhist monks, novices, cladding their robes, view to the East over trees and hills in morning dust, Phu Si hill, Luang Prabang, Laos

Bamboo footbridge, Pak Ou caves, Mekong river, north of Luang Prabang, Laos

People on a bridge in morning mist, Paksong at Bolaven Plateau, South Laos, Asia

Women vendors selling food to bus passengers waiting for ferry, Champasak, Southern Laos, Asia

Buddhist monks, novice, in front of their dwelling, Luang Prabang, Laos

A LAotian-American female monk with shaved head makes an offering of rice during worship as the Laotian American community celebrates the Buddhist new year by gathering at a property in suburban East Hartford Connecticut on April 28, 2007. Several shrines are set up on the property. The celebrants leave offerings of food, flowers and money, pray, dance, and feast for a day. Immigrants from Laos, including the Hmong people, are refugees from the Vietnam War era, when they helped United States in the war.