Bamboo Rocket festival (video)

In Isan (Northeast Thailand) and in Laos, the beginning of the rainy season is celebrated in many villages with the traditional Rocket festival or the 'Bun Bang Fai'. In Thailand, the 'Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival' in Yasothon is the most famous festival.

The celebration of the start of the rainy season includes several days of music and dance performances, parades of floats, and concludes with the firing of home-made rockets. This is a kind of competition in which the one with the most beautiful/biggest rocket receives a lot of admiration.

Local participants and sponsors of this occasion use this festivity to enhance or raise their social prestige, a common practice in many traditional Buddhist folk festivals in Southeast Asia.

Video: Bamboo Rocket festival

Below you can see spectacular images of a Rocket festival. This is not without danger, as the video shows:

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