Festival Photos - Vientiane
By chance Kalina and I were heading back from having a look at a reproductive health education session with nightclub workers that the CARE team were holding when we came upon this festival. I know i haven't yet mastered the challenge of night-time photos, but the candle lights kind of look cool. We were watching the procession of people holding "castles" made of paper cupcake holders, money, and white and yellow crepe paper when somone gave us some incense, candles and a lotus flower each and we joined in. We all did 3 laps of the temple before leaving our offerings for the monks. There were huge fireworks going shooting up into the sky, lots of "win a prize" fun fair games, and fortune tellers all sitting around the temple grounds....
Laos was under the control of Siam (Thailand) from the late 18th century until the late 19th century when it became part of French Indochina. The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1907 defined the current Lao border with Thailand. In 1975, the Communist Pathe... ... read more 
