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Vien Thien

As with many festivals in Laos, this one goes on for more than one day. Before 8pm on the night of the full moon, families gather at their local Wat for prayers and blessings.

Carrying flowers, candles and incense, they then circumambulate the sim in a clockwise direction three times.

After this comes the illumination of the heua khok, a bamboo model of the boats that will begin racing in the morning.