This is a pic from the balcony of my hotel of some of the typical Pi Mia Lao (Lao New Year) festivities. As I mentioned earlier, everyone gets soaked and it is a lot of fun (for 2 days anyway).
I was invited to a party and this is our host's father preparing to bless the guests at the party. Blessings consisted of chanted verses (which of course I could not understand) and tying of colored threads on the wrists of guests.
Party Food!
Guests at the party.
Yesterday was a most interesting day and my friend took me to the obligatory odd number of temples to pour holy water over the Buddha images. The temples were full of devotees and there were so many photo ops, but my camera chose to act badly that day.
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