FESTIVAL EVENT

Wat Phou Festival in Champasack Province

This festival is held on the grounds of the enchanting pre-Angkorian Wat Phu Ruin a World heritage site

Festivities include donations and offerings, elephant races,
Local traditional games such as: Buffalo flights, swimming to catch ducks, closing to hit potteries, climbing the slippery wooden post and the performances of Lao traditional music and dance, a traditional trade fair show for the product of Southern Laos and candle light procession in the night

This is organized during February 07 2012

Laos New Year

The Lao New Year is celebrated at the same time each year. On the first day the Buddha images are taken out of the temples to be cleansed with scented water by devotees, and placed on special temporary altars within the compounds of temple. Devotees gather the scented water falling off the images, to take home and use it to pour on friends and relatives, as an act of cleansing and purification before entering
the New Year. On the evening of the last day the Buddha images are returned to the proper shrines within the temples

Lao New Year is a time for much joyous celebration with good deeds and prayers in anticipation of the New Year
Every year in Luangprabang, there will have the beauty queen parade and consider is peak season for tourists

Vientiane boat racing festival and Nagas rockets

This festival held after the end of the monk’s three-month fast and retreat during the rainy season(Boun Khao Pansa). At down on the first day, donations and offerings are made at the temples around the city. In the evening, candle light processions are held at temples and hundreds of colorful floats decorated with flowers, incense and candles are set adrift down the Mekong River to pay respect to the river spirit. The following day in Vientaine a popular and exciting boat racing competition is held to celebrate the Mekong River
“Naga rocket” The fireballs coming out from the water’s surface, can be seen once a year on the last night of the Lao Buddhist Lent. The Naga rockets can be spotted where the Nam Ngum and the Mekong River meet in Thaprabath district, BolikKhamxi provice, as well as in Pak Ngum district, 60 Km east of Vientaine

This is organized Oct 12-13 2011, Oct 30-31 2012

That Luang Stupa Festival in Vientiane

This religious festival is held in and around That Luang stupa, the National Symbol of Laos, where hundreds of monks from all around the country gather to accept alms and floral votives from the people. The festival includes a grand fireworks display at night and candle light procession. During the day, there are processions of wax castle from different villages to pray to the stupa

Nov 10 2011, Nov 28 2012

Hmong hill tribe New Year

In Oudomxay, Sayaboury, Xiengkhuang, Luangprabang and Vientaine Province.
The Hmong New Year celebration features colorful displays of traditional costumes made from green, red and white silk and ornate silver jewelry. Music from traditional Hmong instruments such as the teun-flute, Hmong style Khene pipe and leaf blowing is enjoyed. Other festivities included the Makkhon (cotton-ball) throwing ceremony, ox fighting, spinning-top races and crossbow demonstrations

Elephant Festival

Elephant bath, Baci ceremony for elephant, elephant show….

Rocket Festival

A ceremony praying for rain is performed at the temple in the morning. In the afternoon, people gather in fields on the outskirts of villages and towns to launch the rockets with much abandoned revelry. Villages, communities and departments compete for the "best decorated" and the "highest traveling" rocket. Beginning around the middle of May, the festivals are staggered from place to place enable more participation and attendance. This is the time when an offering to the spirits can be made in a corner of one's garden, early each morning.

Hill tribe market day

The hill tribe will come from their villages which located on the mountains to market for selling their forest stuff and buying their need. The market will be organized by the hill tribe calendar which is not the same day, but we could calculate for you