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Lao New Year Festival in Savannakhet
Lao New Year Festival in Savannakhet
Boun Pee Mai Lao. This festival is held all over Laos, from 14th to 16th April. It aims at farewelling the old year and welcoming the new year. In Savannakhet the biggest festivals are held in the city. There is a Miss Lao New Year contest; the winner parades through the town on the back of an artificial animal. Some families organize baci ceremonies, big arches made of rice plants in order to show their respect to the earth and sky spirits as well as to the land spirits who facilitate rice production. People splash or pour fragrant water with flowers to other people passing by, to wash bad things out from their bodies.
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