Buddha Part Vientiane

25km southeast of city Vientiane on the Mekong River, Xieng Khuan or the “Buddha Park” is absolutely Laos’s quirkiest allure – a broken-down day-tripper allurement to some travellers, one of the a lot of absorbing architect in Vientiane to others. This accumulating of massive ferro-concrete sculptures, dotted about a advanced beach meadow, was created beneath the administration of Luang Pou Bounleua Soulilat, a self-styled angelic man who claimed to accept been the adherent of a cave-dwelling Hindu anchoress in Vietnam.
Upon abiding to Laos, Bounleua began the carve garden in the backward 1950s as a agency of overextension his aesthetics of activity and his account about the cosmos. After the revolution, Bounleua was affected to abscond beyond the Mekong to Nong Khai, Thailand, area he accustomed an even added busy adaptation of his aesthetics in concrete. Ironically, the Lao National Tourism Authority chose Bounleua’s sculptures as the attribute of their “Visit Laos Year” campaign, and posters depicting the adopted guru’s works can be apparent in government offices throughout the country.