LUANG PRABANG, LAOS – One of the most colorful festivals in Southeast Asia takes place each fall at the October full moon.
The Lao people celebrate Boun Awk Phansa to mark the end of the three months of Buddhist Lent, a period of meditation, learning and retreat during the height of the rainy season.
The annual festival culminates in a brilliant nighttime spectacle featuring a procession of large colorful hand-crafted dragon floats. These intricately-decorated floats (some of them 25 feet long, or more) are illuminated with hundreds of candles.
To offer a glimpse of this brilliant annual celebration and the activities leading up to the main event we’ve created a two-part video series.
Part One features the pre-festival preparations.
Watch Part Two, The Candlelight Parade, below (or visit our Youtube channel).
For more about our Laos adventure, watch our other videos: Rice Harvest Time in Northern Laos, and A Monk’s Life in Laos.
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