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Plain of Jars

Plain of Jars

I got to looking at World Heritage Sites the other day. I have to admit a certain amount of American/Texan arrogance when I saw that the tiny county of Laos had three sites. How could such a tiny little country have so many sites? I thought to myself.

Well, even though Laos is about the size of a thumbtack, it does give us a rather interesting World Heritage Site in the Plain of Jars. If I understand the story there is a huge field over in Laos that has a bajillion stone jars all over the place. The eggheads have decided that these jars are where ancient folk buried their dead.

Of course, I rather like the alternative explanation provided by legend of a race of giants occupying what we know of as Laos and these huge stone pots were for the making "huge amounts" of "lau hai" or rice wine.

Now there is what is missing from the world- a race of giants getting smashed on homebrew!

Wikipedia Plain of Jars

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