Garbage at That Lunag

at that luang. already a mess even before 450 year celebration started
Originally uploaded by thomaswanhoff

It is just so sad. Everything is supposed cleaned up in town, but when you go to That Luang, where the 450 years Vientiane festival will take place soon, or at the riverside, where the new park will be opened, it is covered in trash. Plastic bags, cups, bottles, banana leafs, chicken bones, fish skin and so on. There are soldier with machine guns patrolling (for what?), but NOBODY explains Lao people that they should NOT throw away their garbage. and: No law enforcement of course. (When I tell the kids in my street to pick up that trash, their parents look at me like I am an alien).