“Pei Mai”- The SongKran festival takes place in both Thailand and Laos in the middle of April, right during the hottest week of the year. This is a great time to celebrate the new year, as the next agricultural season approaches, along with the rainy season. It’s a multiday festival, where people drink, eat and celebrate by throwing water on each other. As we’d been in the hills, we hadn’t seen to much of it, but returning to Vientiene we were immediately immersed in what must be one of the world’s largest waterfights. The entire city was throwing water on each other and sipping (err.,. pounding) beer lao.
We couldn’t escape it and overcame fatigue to go party with the locals (given the political situation in Bangkok I think the festival was much more subdued in Thailand). I don’t have pictures of this (it look my wallet three days to dry afterwards), but if you can just imagine people pouring water on each other and on strangers themn you’ve about got it. Occasionally the water was iced which makes for an unpleasant surprise.
To sum up Laos:
1. Beer Lao
2. Friendly People
3. Remote and Out of Touch with the world.
4. Beer Lao
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