Wat Phu festival in January or February in Southern-Laos.

Annual festivals

Wat Phu festival

End January or February, depending on the moon calendar

From 11 February 2025 to 13 February 2025

The Wat Phu Festival takes place every year, on the 15th day of the increasing moon of the 3rd month (in January-February) and coincides with the Makha Busa Buddhist Festival. The believers come from a great distance to attend the ceremony ; some of them even come from Thailand and Cambodia; it is also the opportunity for surrounding plain and mountain populations to meet each other, maintaining these relations since time put off.

Processions, recitals, and chants take place during the three days festival. Boats racing (dugouts), game "catch-ducks"; volleyball and petanque competitions are also organized. Sometimes, elephant procession, buffalo and cock fights, and dances are also showed. The local authorities want to maintain some traditions and to preserve the sacred sense of the place. In the evening, various attractions as well as some concerts are used to occur as an usual profane aspect. See an example of the attractions for 2011 on the file below...

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During Vat Phou Festival, traditional processions

Magnificent view at Vat Phou

Ruins being restored

Annual holly moment for Buddhists

During Vat Phou Festival, traditional processions

Very busy morning alms during the festival

A mix of Hinduism, Buddhism, and animism

The French Architectural mission in Vat Phou

Near the Vat Phou, the Vat Tomo

Wat Phou Festival in January or February every year

Vat Phou Festival in Southern-Laos (Jan-Feb)

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