Boun Suang Heua or the Boat Racing Festival
This and Lao New Year are the main festivals in Luang Prabang.
There has been a buildup for weeks. I live in Ban Visoun and the local boys have been out and practising for at least a month.
- First they make their paddles
- Then the orange fluro t-shirts arrive
- And then the boat - probably 30 metres long- is taken from the temple to the Nam Khan river.
- And they'd be out practising night and morning.
The day the orange fluro t shirts arrived
No matter the weather, the Ban Visoun boys went off to practice
And here they are on the Nam Khan
53 men to a boat.
53 men to a boat.
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