Rocket festival
Rocket festival or "Boon Bang Fai" in thai is usually held in the second week of may of each year,at the beginning of the rainy season. The farmers are ready to cultivate their paddy fiedls. The festival is popularly celebrated in the northeastern provinces of Yasothorn and Ubon Ratchathani.The celebration is an entreaty to the rain god for plentiful rains during the coming rice planting season.