Here’s some statues and religious carvings from the Buddha park near Vientiane, the capital of Lao PDR. This is a place some Lao animist shaman/Buddhist monk built in the 50s, carving most of the statues with his own hands. The statues look ancient and their strange faces and quirky decorative motifs might puzzle the visitor at fist sight. I felt like in a tiny amusement park made out of stone, I just couldn’t halt my impulse to climb, sometimes even crawl all over the pieces of stone and strike a pose.