May - BounBangFai Year 2011

Rituals and festivals, whether they occur once a day or once a year, convey the spirit and essence of a culture, identifying what is unique to a locality. In Luang Prabang, the ritual cycle is dominated by Thervada Buddhist customs and traditions, integrated with tributes paid to the animistic spirits (Phi) of the land and water. Because it is the traditional center of the region in Laos and the seat of the former royal family, annual festival.

This festival is a rain-making and fertility festival. Held just before the rain season, it is a wild and happy ceremony, involving music, dance and street processions, culminating in the firing of rockets. Rockets are fired to tempt the gods to produce rain needed for rice cultivation and also to send the naga from the river bank into the rice field in order to attract rain. This festival is held in Muang nan District.