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SUMMARY:International Labour's Day
DESCRIPTION:Labor Day is also known as International Workers’ Day and May Day. It’s a public holiday in many countries worldwide. It usually occurs around May 1\, but several countries observe it on other dates.
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/international-labours-day/
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SUMMARY:Boun Bang Fai (Rocket Festival)
DESCRIPTION:Boun Bang Fai is festival held to call for rain and celebrate fertility. The date of the festival is fixed by each province. During the festival\, there are a variety of fun activities\, particularly a traditional dance which is performed in a circle. Men will wear traditional Lao women’s clothes and cosmetics as people tie the clothes on each other. In the afternoon\, people take artificial elephant and horses walking around the host village. Afterwards\, people gather in the field on the outskirts of village and towns to launch self-made firework rocket. The village that is able to launch its rocket the highest up in the sky is the winner. The rocket competition is held in order to demonstrate appreciation to “Payathaen” (god Of Sky) who provides people with the rains necessary for agriculture. Throughout the celebrations\, hosts prepare a variety of traditional food for their guests.
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/boun-bang-fai-rocket-festival/
CATEGORIES:Events & Festivals 2026
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260502
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SUMMARY:Boun Visakhaboucha
DESCRIPTION:Boun Visakhaboucha is a meaningful milestone in Buddhist calendar\, because is mark the Lord Buddha’s birth\, enlightenment and death. Devout Buddhists will rise early to make merit at temples. In some temples\, Buddhists will perform Wien Tien (Candlelight procession) in the evening\, which includes carrying candles\, incense and lotus flowers and walking clockwise for three times around the sim\, or main sermon or prayer hall.
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/boun-visakhaboucha/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260601
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SUMMARY:International Children and National Planting's Days
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/international-children-and-national-plantings-days/
CATEGORIES:Events & Festivals 2026
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260713
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260714
DTSTAMP:20260418T195606
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SUMMARY:Former Souphanouvong's Birthday
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/former-souphanouvongs-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Events & Festivals 2026
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260720
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260721
DTSTAMP:20260418T195606
CREATED:20260101T055106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T035126Z
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SUMMARY:Lao National Women's Day
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/lao-national-womens-day/
CATEGORIES:Events & Festivals 2026
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260729
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260730
DTSTAMP:20260418T195606
CREATED:20260101T054915Z
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SUMMARY:Asalahaboucha Day and Boun Khao Phansa Festival (Buddhist Lent)
DESCRIPTION:Boun Khao Phansa is held at the beginning of the Buddhist lent. Over the following three month\, monks spend most of their time in prayer and meditation and are restricted from spending nights in other temples out of their own. Many devout people often abstain from alcohol during this time. In the early morning of Boun Khao Phansa\, people prepare donations of food\, especially “Khao Tom” (cooked sticky rice wrapped in banana leave) and necessities like soap\, toothpaste\, toothbrushes and towels for the monks. Most temples are busy during this time with people making merit and giving their donations. At the end of these merit making activities\, the monks will recite the teaching of Buddha and tell the history of the Buddhist Lent to temples-goers. Later in the evening\, monks\, novices cannot leave their monasteries to become lay-people and traditionally lay-people are not allowed to get married until the end of the Buddhist Lent or Ork Phansa.
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/asalahaboucha-day-and-boun-khao-phansa-festival-buddhist-lent-2/
CATEGORIES:Events & Festivals 2026
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260912
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SUMMARY:Boun Khao Padabdin (Rice Growing Festival)
DESCRIPTION:Boun Hor Khao Padabdin (the literal translation is decorate (padab) dirt\earth (din))starts in the middle of the rainy season. This festival is held in commemoration of dead ancestors. Over two days\, Buddhist devotees flock to the Vats (temples) carrying strays of offerings for monks and deceased ancestor. Music is traditionally performed in the grounds of the Vat while people make their donations. During Boun Khao Phansapadabdin\, each household cooks a number of “khao Tom” to give to relatives and friends and some are reserved for giving alms to the monks. In the early morning at 4am to 5am\, people place the “khao tom” and other food wrapped in banana leave or lotus leave in the four corners outside one’s house\, the stairs\, the spirit house\, the rice storehouse\, and on the gate\, as well as on the ground so that the sprit can reach them. It is also the time to shoe respect to “Mae Thoranii” (the Earth God).
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/boun-khao-padabdin-rice-growing-festival-2/
CATEGORIES:Events & Festivals 2026
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260912
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SUMMARY:Boat Racing Festival in Luang Prabang Province
DESCRIPTION:At the Khao Padabdin ceremony day\, people visit local temples to make offerings to dead ancestors as well as to share merit-making. This festival includes boat racing on the Nam Khan River and a trade fair in Luang Prabang World Heritage town.
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/boat-racing-festival-in-luang-prabang-province/
CATEGORIES:Events & Festivals 2026
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260927
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SUMMARY:Boun Khao Salak Ancestor Festival
DESCRIPTION:This festival occurs during the 10th full moon of the lunar calendar. The purpose of the festival is to obtain merit by providing offerings to dead ancestors. The offerings to the dead are passed to monks during the morning ceremony at the temple\, just after almsgiving. A basket is filled with food and daily amenities such as soap\, toothpaste\, toothbrushes\, toilet paper\, cigarettes\, etc. along with the names of the dead people the family wish to honor. The monks or novice the basket\, then draws the name\s from the basket. In the evening at 7pm to 8pm\, it is the for a candlelight procession (Wien Tien). Afterwards\, the candles\, incense the flowers are placed near the side of the Sim.
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/boun-khao-salak-ancestor-festival-3/
CATEGORIES:Events & Festivals 2026
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261026
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261027
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SUMMARY:Naga Rocket in Bolikhamxay Province
DESCRIPTION:The fireballs coming out from the water’s surface can be seen once a year on the last night of the Lao Buddhist Lent. The Naga Rockets can be spotted where the Nam Ngum and the Mekong river meet in Thaprabath District\, Bolikhamxay Province\, as well as in Pak Ngum District\, 60 kilometers east of Vientiane.
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/naga-rocket-in-bolikhamxay-province-3/
CATEGORIES:Events & Festivals 2026
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SUMMARY:Boun Ork Phansa (The end of buddhist lent)
DESCRIPTION:Boun Ork Phansa is the last day of Buddhist Lent. It occurs on the 15th day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar. In the morning\, donations and offering are made at temples around the country. In the evening candlelight processions are held around the temples while hundreds around of colorful floats decorated with flowers\, incense and candles are set adrift down and rivers giving thanks to the river spirit (Lai Heua Fai). They are said to pay respect to the Buddha and to thank the mother of rivers for providing water for our lives as well as to ask for blessing and to float the bad luck for the past year away\, enabling the good luck to flow in. Villagers who live far from rivers set up model boat made of banana stems and decorated with flowers and candlelight\, while other simply light up some candles in front of their houses and do their prayer\, wishing for good luck. This colorful ritual has been carried on by Lao people for thousands of years.
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/boun-ork-phansa-the-end-of-buddhist-lent-3/
CATEGORIES:Events & Festivals 2026
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SUMMARY:Lhai Heua Fai\, Festival of the Boats of Light in Luang Prabang Province
DESCRIPTION:Boun Lai Heua Fai is a festival for the Phanang Naga which is held during Boun Xouang Heua in order to bring good luck. Each village in many provinces makes and decorates a boat. The boats are then paraded through the town\, at night they are lunched onto the river and ceremoniously set on fire as offerings to spirits. This festival involves floating the ritual flowers onto the river\, to send of bad luck and give thanks to the water spirits. When holding boat race\, people ritually reclaim the land from the Naga\, chasing them out from fields and streams and back into the Mekong River.
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/lhai-heua-fai-festival-of-the-boats-of-light-in-luang-prabang-province-2/
CATEGORIES:Events & Festivals 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Vientiane:20261121T000000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Vientiane:20261124T235900
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SUMMARY:That Luang Festival and Trade Fair in Vientiane Capital
DESCRIPTION:Boun Pha That Luang is the most meaningful festival in Vientiane Capital as well as in the Lao PDR. It is held over three to seven days during the full moon of the twenty-fifth lunar month (November\, but sometimes it is at the end of October). The festival starts with a colorful candlelight wax castle (Phasat Pheung) procession which starts the evening before at Vat Simeuang. The procession continues to the next afternoon from Vat Simeuang to Pha That Luang. People carry flowers\, candles\, incense and wax castles decorated with flowers and bank notes. People wear their best clothes for this procession and there is also a parade of the men and women dressed in various Loa ethnic costumes who dance and play traditional music and songs while approaching the stupa. The s-called wax castles have been a part of Lao lifestyle for many years\, and bringing one to Pha that Luang on this occasion is believed to bring considerable merit. \nThe following morning\, a huge crowd assembles at dawn at Pha That Luang to give alms to hundreds of monks who come here from around the country\, and to play homage to the stupa. In the afternoon\, everyone will gather on the esplanade for the traditional game of Ti Khee\, which is played with a ball and long curved stick\, resembling a game of hockey. The festival draws to close under a full moon when people from all over Laos will crowd around Pha That Luang for one last candlelight procession. There are also fire work displays to make the end of the celebration. During the Pha That Luang stupa festival\, there are trade fairs\, concerts and fun fairs held.
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/that-luang-festival-and-trade-fair-in-vientiane-capital-2/
CATEGORIES:Events & Festivals 2026
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261203
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SUMMARY:Lao National Day
DESCRIPTION:This celebrates the 1975 victory of the proletariat over the monarchy with parades\, speeches\, etc. Lao national and communist hammer and sickle flags are flown all over the country. Celebration is mandatory\, hence poorer communities postpone some of the traditional Ok Phansa activities usually practiced roughly a month earlier-until National Day\, thus saving themselves considerable expense.
URL:https://www.tourismlaos.org/event/lao-national-day-3/
CATEGORIES:Events & Festivals 2026
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