My Christmas in Vientiane was not too dissimilar to what I might experience at home. There was food, wine, talking crap about religion, politics and hairstyles. There was even carol singing!
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There was food and wine and then a lot of lying around feeling full
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The view was stunning
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Skype replaced the "dropping by to eat Dad's pudding" visit
The weeks leading up to Christmas saw shops filled with Lao-style Santa suits, strings of lights, piles of tinsel and quite a few Christmas trees. And everything was red.
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Some Santas were rather small
This Santa smelt like fish sauce
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Christmas trees, oh Christmas trees..
Head band things bounced around town
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It's always been a tinsel town but that has very little to do with Christmas
Anything red was promoted to front-of-house
And who can decide between a Santa suit or a kiddie-sized Beer Lao Tshirt?
Looks like all had a good time. Somehow celebrating Christmas with Santa etc doesn't quite seem appropriate in Buddhist/Communist Laos. Just like Australia celebrating the birth of Mohammad.
ReplyDeleteBah! Christmas is about giving crappy presents isn't it? And there is always a santa no matter what the religion (well, in Asia, as far as I know...).
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