Festivals
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Lao New Year
April
This three-day national holiday is one of the most popular in the Laotian calendar. Families clean their houses and youngsters pour water over the hands of their elders to ask for blessings. There are huge water fights in the streets to symbolize the cleansing of the soul for the new year and people visit temples to make merit.
Location Countrywide, Laos
Boun Bang Fai
April - May
This two- or three-day festival takes place throughout the sixth lunar month. People make bamboo rockets and compete to fire them high into the sky; there are parties with drinking and dancing and the men dress as women. The ritual is supposed to invoke the wrath of the gods so they will send rain to water the crops.
Location Countrywide, Laos
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