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With Lao New Year the whole town of Luang Prabang, Laos turns into a big water-fight! Everywhere people are having small parties together by the side of the road, eating and drinking and splashing all passerby’s. Other people have loaded their trucks with big buckets of water and drive around for the purpose of getting into water fights with the everybody else. Kids and grownups alike roam the streets with super soakers all the while wishing everybody a happy new year.

It’s so much fun! It’s the best party you’ve ever seen. And yet it is all done with such a light and playful spirit. Everybody remains respectful with everybody else. While for most people it’s virtually impossible to not get soaking wet, older people and baby’s stay dry, save for a little good luck sprinkle. The whole thing is based on an old tradition of cleansing each other of the last years bad energy. You couldn’t come up with a better way to celebrate the new year.

Needless to say we joined in. 😂💦💦

But Lao New Year is much more than that. For Lao people it is also a time to honor age old traditions, celebrate its culture and pay respect to Buddha and the village elders.