How did these gigantic stone jugs get there thousands of years ago and who were the people who made them? These or similar questions are probably asked by anyone who visits the plain of jars in the north-east of Laos.
To this day, the secret has not been revealed and many questions remain unanswered. Nothing is known about the people who probably created thousands of these stone vessels about 2000 years ago. It seems halfway certain, however, that the up to two and a half meter high vessels were something like sarcophagi for the dead. The places where the stone was extracted and worked are partly more than 10km away from the place of installation. How the transport worked is hard to imagine for us in view of the terrain.
Since the places, at which sometimes several hundred of these stone vessels stand, are far apart, we explore the area again with the scooter. As a rule, a stone jug is about 2 m high with a diameter of up to 1.50 m. Their shape is sometimes bulbous, sometimes cylindrical and sometimes even angular. Sometimes they lie on a plain, sometimes on a hill. To walk between these coffins of a lost culture is strange and with sunset the atmosphere becomes almost mystical.
