Events Laos

 Agenda

January 1: New Year's Day
January 6: Pathet Lao Day
January 20: Army Day
February: Makha Bouça, celebrates Buddha's sermon on the fundamental rules of monastic life and in which he predicts his own death.
February 3: Vietnamese Tet and Chinese New Year: celebrated in the major cities with fireworks. These feasts are chances for friends to come together.
March 2: Chinese New Year
March 8: International Women's Day
March 22: Day of the People's Party
April 13: Lao New Year (Pi Mai)
May 1: International Labour Day, a socialist tradition
May 9: Buddha Day (Vesak)
June 1: Children's Day
June: Visakha Bouça (full moon) and Boun Bangfay (feast of rockets). The first is a buddhist feast celebrating both the birth and death of Buddha, the second is a feast celebrating fertility and linga worship.
July: Khao Phansa, a strictly religious feast celebrating the beginning of the traditional "rain retreat" of monks.
August 13: Lao Issara (Day of the Free Laos)
August-September: Haw Khao Padap Din, the feast of the dead.
October 12: Day of Liberation
October-November: Boun Awk Phansaa and Boun Nam. The first marks the end of the three-months retreat of the monks and the second the feast of water.
November: That Luang feast, takes place in the Vat That Luang in Vientiane and brings together hundreds of monks who come to receive flowers and garlands from the faithful.
December 2: National Day
December-January.
Boun Pha Vet, which commemorates the Laos' independence movement, and Hmong New Year, which takes place in Hmong villages and is a joyful pagan feast.