Luang Prabang
Americannoun
noun
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In September 2023, a passenger boat, which travelled on the same river corridor between Huay Xai and Luang Prabang, capsized in the Mekong in Pakbeng district, resulting in three deaths.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025
The Luang Prabang dam is one of nine that Laos plans across the Mekong.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024
I had been in markets all my life, in places as far apart as Ouarzazate and Luang Prabang, Samarkand and Kigali, but that was the Old World.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021
Thank goodness for Mrs. Vanthong, the patient master weaver overlooking my efforts at Ock Pop Tok, a crafts center on the outskirts of Luang Prabang, a dreamy city where jungle landscapes meet French Colonial architecture.
From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2019
Lieutenant Garnier found cowries nowhere in use north of Luang Prabang; and among the Kakhyens in Western Yun nan these shells are used only for ornament.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
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