Every year 250.000 visitors come to That Phanom in the third lunar month. For one week there is a Buddhist festival . There are processions, ceremonies and meetings of monks. And the lay people come to pay their respects. They come from Laos, Thailand, Vietnam ...
They are poor and they keep giving, to each other, to the temple ... it is really beautiful.
The next festival starts on 13 or 14 February 2015.