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One of the ancient capitals of Laos, Luang Prabang has been a UNESCO World Heritage site for eleven years based on its well-preserved fusion of traditional Lao urban structures with colonial architecture from the 19th and 20th centuries. Yet none of it is large-scale or particularly stunning: just calmly pleasing and elegantly proportioned. Even before you take the time to wander around its quiet, slow-moving streets, you sense it possesses a peace and harmony that are hard to find in the modern world. It is very much a lived-in community – not yet prettified for the mounting number of tourists finding their way here – and very accessible, just four streets crisscrossed with numerous smaller lanes along a narrow peninsular raised up above the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers which encircle it on three sides. A place to be unhurried, to sit and watch, to read a book, to absorb the tranquility.