Weird Houselike Graves of the Katu & Alak Minority People in Southern Laos

As we were told the Katu & Alak minority peoples on the Bolaven Plateau in the Southern Laos Province of Champasak make these eerie wooden house graves. We toured them on the side of the road. They were really crazy looking with such strange features as umbrellas that hang from the eves, mirrors on the sides of the walls, fences that surround the graves, and strange shelves that support plants that hang under the outside of little windows. If you look through the little windows some of the house graves have wooden caskets covered in other trinkets while others have no caskets because these minority peoples build these graves years before they even die.

Cool stuff!