Happy Rocket Festival!
So, this is my basic understanding of the Lao Rocket Festival.
At the end of the dry season (May), Lao people build rockets from PVC pipe and bamboo and laundry detegrent and god-knows-what-else to shoots into the sky in order to, essentially, piss off the skies and make them send down rain.
Here are some [...]
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sokdee boun bang fie!
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mekong picture
Posted in livin', tagged laos, mekong, sunset, vientiane on Monday, 15 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I made this animated gif from some pictures I took of the Mekong a few months ago:
