Boun Suang Heua, or the boat racing festival, is very significant in Vientiane and around the country. Boun Suang Heua in Vientiane happens on the 15th day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar. This is the end of the monk lent’s day at Vientiane on the Mekong river; it is biggest boat racing festival and they have been cerebrating more than one hundred years because the boat racing festival is really an honoring to water divinities and the Nagas, who are protectors of the river and to show respect to the Buddha and to thank the mother of the river for giving water for our lives.
Works cited:
“BOAT RAC8HG FESTIVAL.” Tourism Laos. http://www.tourismlaos.org/show.php?Cont_ID=444
Boat Racing Festival (Boun Suang Heua) 