After visiting Pha That Luang, I decided to walk into town to get something to eat. About halfway between my guest house and the center of the city was the Patuxai which is the Laos equivalent of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. However, unlike it's French equivalent, the Patuxai has four arches (one on each side) rather than two.
Fun fact: The Patuxai was built in the 1960s with US-purchased cement that was supposed to have been used for the construction of a new airport. Therefore, it's sometimes called "the vertical runway."
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