Luang Prabang Morning Market

We left the hotel well before dawn to see the morning alms giving ceremony. About 200 monks file into the city near the morning market to collect their meal for the day. Photography is difficult in February at that time of day, as it is still very dark. After that we hit the fascinating morning market. If it grows, swims, slithers, hops or crawls it is for sale here.

Monks gather for early morning alms giving in Luang Prabang near the morning market.
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This area is sort of the "food court" of the market with prepared food, coffee, etc.
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Not sure what this is, but it is probably good.
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A kettle warms over a fire on a street in the market before dawn.
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A woman keeping warm as she waits for the day's first customers.
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A group of women chat and keep warm by the fire before the market gets busy.
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Women selling garlic, spring onions and merigolds.
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Roasted bamboo rat. I didn't see anyone eat them, but people do!
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Little girl in the market.
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Some nice looking veggies!
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Woman selling cabbage and green beans.
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Old woman selling...what?...moss? Not sure.
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Mother and baby.
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Mother and baby.
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Banana flower, it's good in salad!
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Crabs all packaged up to go.
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She's selling some nice looking sugar snap peas.
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Get your hot rat on a stick!
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Woman prepares snacks while a man keeps warm.
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This lady has a customer that wants some bamboo rats...not for pets!
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A squirmy bunch of bamboo rats destined for someone's table. Hard to get a good shot.
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A woman with some chickens to sell.
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Some really nice looking fresh vegetables!
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Woman selling garlic.
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Peppers, galanga, fungus...lots of good stuff.
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A woman reaches to clear a leaf from her display of mussels.
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Woman selling veggies.
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I'm not sure what she was selling, but she was shaving it down with a knife.
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Peppers, tomatoes, thai eggplant, starfruit, etc.
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Women selling their goods in the market.
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Freinds keeping warm.
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Woman sellig rice with her baby.
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Old woman with just a few things to sell.
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Old woman selling trinkets made of bamboo.
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Young woman selling roasted banana snacks.
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The garlic lady.
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This woman is preparing snacks in banana leaves, traditional Lao style.
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Washing the chicken.
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Fresh caught Mekong fish.
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Cauliflower, brocolli, etc.
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A bustling market street.
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Woamn selling chestnuts.
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Roasted frog on a stick! So tempting!
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Peppers galore!
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Pink eggs.
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A pot simmering away.
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A woman making fried snacks. Note the banana leaf counter top.
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Yummy fried snacks.
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