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