Is it legal to collect at Plain of Jars: Site 1, Xiangkhouang plateau, Laos?

Prohibited, look only. UNESCO property in a UXO-contaminated landscape: stay strictly between the MAG marker blocks on cleared paths, and touching, moving or collecting anything, jar fragments or war scrap alike, is forbidden and genuinely dangerous

What can you find at Plain of Jars: Site 1, Xiangkhouang plateau, Laos?

eyes-only: hundreds of megalithic jars, bomb craters and trench lines, MAG visitor center in Phonsavan

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Plain of Jars

Site 1, Xiangkhouang plateau, Laos

Old dump ground Documented siteProhibited, look only

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Flint and stone tools

Nails and fittings

Also reported: bomb craters and trench lines, MAG visitor center in Phonsavan.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: James St. John (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Iron Age megalithic funerary landscape of over 2,100 stone jars, UNESCO-listed 2019, overlain by the heaviest aerial bombing in history during the Secret War

UNESCO and Wikipedia document the jar sites, the 2019 inscription, and MAG's UXO clearance of the seven visitor sites

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

An estimated 80 million unexploded cluster bomblets remain across the region

never leave marked paths

Keep exploring nearby

More spots in this area.

Check access and collecting rules for each site.