Official Holidays
In Laos working days are from Monday to Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 12 a.m. and form 2 p.m. till 5 p.m. Official holidays include:
International New Year January 1
Lao New Year mid...
In Laos working days are from Monday to Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 12 a.m. and form 2 p.m. till 5 p.m. Official holidays include:
International New Year January 1
Lao New Year mid April
International...
A variety of festivals and religious ceremonies are observed throughout the whole year. The most important ones are listed below....
Mid January:
Harvest festival in villages. A ceremony is performed giving thanks to the spirit of the land....
February:
A ceremony held at the wat in the morning, when a special "bread made of sticky rice" is offered....
March:
A ceremony of offering donations to have one's future read from a piece of paper drawn, during the three day-three night festival....
April:
Boun Pimai or the Lao New Year, is celebrated in mid April. On the first day of the festival, Buddha images are taken out of the temples to be cleaned with scented water. The water which drops...
Mid May:
Boun Bangfai : the rocket festival, is held at the beginning of the rainy season. The festival is a call for rain and a celebration of fertility. In the morning a religious ceremony is performed....
June:
This is a time when an offering to the spirits can be made in a corner of one's garden, very early in the morning...
July:
The beginning of the Buddhist lent. During the next three-month period. Monks spend most of their time in prayer and meditation and are restricted from spending nights in other wats other than their...
August:
The observation of a practice of making offerings to the dead....
September:
That marks the end of the monks' three-month-fast and retreat during the rainy season. At dawn, donations and offerings are made at the temples. Prayers are chanted by the monks, and at dusk...
November:
Is a three-day religious festival celebrated at full moon in November. It begins with pre-dawn gathering of ten thousands of pilgrims from Laos and Thailand at That Luang who listen to prayers...
