Tag: Festivals

“Mark Community” Greets Elephants to UNESCO World Heritage

Posted: December 23, 2015

The Luang Prabang “Mark Community”, Greets Elephants to UNESCO World Heritage festivities in Dec ember 2015 LUANG PRABANG, LAO PDR; “The Mark Community” led Luang Prabang’s public and private sector tourism stakeholders in sponsoring an Elephant Baci Ceremony during the city’s 20th anniversary as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The event welcomed a 20-strong Elephant

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Category: Culture, Festivals, Interviews

Tags: Community, Culture, Elephant, Festivals, Hotels, Luang Prabang, World Heritage

Boat Racing Festival in Luang Prabang

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By Kyle Wagner

Posted: August 27, 2015

The annual Boat Racing Festival is a widely celebrated event in Luang Prabang where long boats race one another down the Mekong River. It is also a celebration of the spiritual Nagas (dragons) that help protect the country.

Category: Culture, Festivals, Travel

Tags: Activities, Community, Culture, Eco Bungalow, Festivals, Laos, Luang Prabang, Tiger Trail, traditions, Travel

Celebrating elephants in Laos

By Kyle Wagner

Posted: February 6, 2015

ELEPHANTS IN LAOS For centuries Laos was famed as the kingdom of a million elephants. Now there are fewer than 900 living in the country. While it is unknown whether a million elephants once roamed freely in Laos, elephants are a practical part of everyday Lao heritage, culture, agriculture and livelihood. Elephant are highly respected

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Category: Adventures, Elephants, Festivals, Nature

Tags: Activities, Adventure, Elephant, Elephant Village, festival, Festivals, Learning, Mahout, Travel

Hmong New Year | A Celebration of Colors

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By Kyle Wagner

Posted: December 30, 2014

Hmong women in Phonsavan | Photograph by Cyril Eberle This is a remarkable story about the third largest ethnic group in Laos — the Hmong people — celebrating their biggest festival of the year. This colorful event showcases the fascinating culture and history of this group of people expressing their unique identity. Phonsavan market and

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Category: Culture, Festivals, People

Tags: Activities, Bungalow, Community, Culture, Eco Bungalow, Fair Trek, Festivals, Hmong, Laos, Luang Prabang, traditions

Boun Bang Fai – Rocket Festivals in Laos

By Dani

Posted: May 30, 2014

Every year rocket festivals explode across Laos This month has brought rocket festivals to fields just outside of villages and towns all over Laos and eastern Thailand. The festival is called Boun Bang Fai and it takes place during the 6th lunar month of the year as a way to call the gods to send the rain.

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Category: Culture, Festivals, People, Travel

Tags: Culture, Festivals, Laos, Travel, Vang Vieng

Lao New Year – Pi Mai Lao in Luang Prabang

Phi Mai Lao - Laos New Year Parade in Luang Prabang

By Dani

Posted: April 22, 2014

Experience the Lao New Year -the Pi Mai Lao in Luang Prabang – Lao water festival I spent my first week in Luang Prabang soaking wet from head to toe for the better part of every day. I have been blasted with water guns, had buckets of ice water poured down my back, had multi-colored

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Category: Culture, Festivals, People, Religion, Travel

Tags: Community, Festivals, Holiday, Lao New Year, Learning, Luang Prabang

Preparing for Lao New Year (Pi Mai Lao) in Luang Prabang

By Dani

Posted: April 11, 2014

Experience the Lao New Year in Luang Prabang I arrived in Laos about a week ago to find the country buzzing with excitement for the upcoming Laos New Year – called Pi Mai Lao, Boun Pi Mai, the Water Festival, or Songkran, as it is known as in Thailand. Knowing very little about the

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Category: Culture, People, Religion, Travel

Tags: Buddhism, Culture, Festivals, Holiday, Laos, Luang Prabang, traditions, Travel

HMONG NEW YEAR in Laos

By Aaron

Posted: April 5, 2014

The Lao Hmong New Year in Luang Prabang “Easy. Just follow the crowds in traditional dress,” instructs Jua, one of my Hmong friends, when I ask how to find the Hmong New Year celebrations in Luang Prabang, Laos. Turns out it really is that simple. One crisp Saturday morning in early December I crest

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Category: Culture, People, Religion

Tags: Culture, Festivals, Hmong, Laos, Luang Prabang, traditions

Luang Prabang Film Festival

By Aaron

Posted: December 31, 2013

4th Annual Luang Prabang Film Festival Celebrates Southeast Asian Cinema For five days the annual Luang Prabang Film Festival (LPFF) transformed The Handicraft Market of Luang Prabang into a bustling open-air theatre. The screening space at the main intersection of this World Heritage town, with its ability to hold over 1500 people, was

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Category: Culture, Interviews, People

Tags: Activities, Community, Culture, Festivals, Luang Prabang

Festival of the Fire Boats

By yoxa

Posted: November 1, 2013

Celebrate the end of Buddhist Lent! On the 20th of October there was Laos’ famous Festival of the Fire Boats or as they say in Lao Boun Lay Hua Fai. This festival marks the end of Buddhist Lent. For this festival, the villages around the area each make one large boat and decorate it with

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Category: Culture, People, Religion, Travel

Tags: Buddhism, Culture, Festivals, traditions

Awk Phansaw Festival, it’s like Christmas and the America’s Cup all in one

By John

Posted: November 20, 2012

Lao Awk Phansaw Festival The Full Moon Festival of Lights Thousand lights, merit making, boat race, decorated temples, banana-leaf boats – see Laos changed! Also known as Ok Watsa (Awk Watsa), this festival celebrates the end of the Buddhist Lent (Vassa). Lent lasts three month during rainy season. Monks focus on meditation, reviving their

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Category: People, Religion

Tags: Activities, Buddhism, Community, Festivals, Holiday, Laos, Luang Prabang, Mekong, traditions

Elephant Festival

By Tad

Posted: February 20, 2012

The Elephant Festival in Laos is held in the north once a year. This year it was in Sayaboury Jerseys a playoffs town several hours southwest of Luang Prabang. Many people in town set out to see the Elephants cheap nfl jerseys and enjoy the festival. Tiger Trail made an event of it as well

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Category: Adventures, Nature, Travel, Uncategorized

Tags: Elephant, Festivals, Laos, Travel