An Early Morning

Like Thailand, Laos is a Buddhist country so early each morning the monks leave the temple for food. We wanted the experience of giving it to them to we woke up nice and early and went to go feed the monks. We bought some local food and sat down on the mats provided and waiting for them to come. As they came down the street in a mass of orange, their bowls at the ready for food, I couldn't help but just look at the beauty of it all. All the monks were just walking in one long line not speaking or anything. Just walking forward food being put into their bowls. Unfortunately we didn't realise how long the line was and how many monks there were as we ran out of food before we ran out of monks. It was actually quite a sad thing as the higher and older monks went first and got food but by the time the young monks came out, people were running out of food and their bowls were hardly full at all. We believe though that the food is all shared out though once they get back to the temple and I was sure that there were still a lot of people waiting on pother streets. Once it was over and the sea of orange had carried on down another street we went back to freshen up and go for some of our own breakfast.