Boun Bang Fai (Rocket Festival)
Date: May
Venue: Vientiane Province (Phon Hong District) and Nationwide
The festival is a call for rain and a celebratiion of feritlity. In the afternoon, people gather in the fields on the outskirts of villages and towns to launch self-made firework rockets. Different communities compete for the best decorated and the highest travelling rocket. Men disguised as women and perform some acts in order to anger th gods. As a revenge, the gods are expected to send thunderstorms.....