New Delhi: The Plain of Jars is a megalithic archaeological landscape in Laos. Scattered in the landscape of the Xieng Khouang plateau, Xieng Khouang, Lao PDR, are thousands of megalithic jars.
These stone jars appear in clusters, ranging from a single or a few to several hundred jars at lower foothills surrounding the central plain and upland valleys.
More than 90 sites containing between one and 400 jars, each hewn out of solid rock, have been discovered, though their exact purpose remains a mystery.
Unexploded ordnance from the Vietnam War dictates that only one jar site near the city of Phonsavan, known as Site 1, is open to visitors.
