Rocket launcher

This the launch for the "grown-up" rockets during teh festival...people would climb up and stand there fiddling with the electrical ignition and fuses, sometimes even holding onto part of the rocket when it took off!

Cross-dressing, fertility and explosives......

June 5th 2006
If any of you have spent your evenings wondering what the combination of cross-dressing, temples, sex and explosives is I now have the solution to your pondering: The Lao Rocket Festival! Every year just before the rainy season all along the Mekong river villages hold rocket festivals, otherwise known as Bun Bang Fai. Shooting rockets into the air while all the young virile (and not so virile) ma ... read more

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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

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