Cultural Events Calendar

Lao National Day This celebrates the 1975 victory of the proletariat over the monarchy with parades, speeches, etc. Streets are strewn with national flags and banners. Celebration is mandatory, hence poorer communities postpone some of the traditional Awk Phansaa activities–usually practised roughly a month earlier--until National Day, thus saving themselves considerable expense.

That Inhang Festival Organized from Oct 2 to Oct 3 in Savannakhet. This festival is held on the grounds of That Inhang stupa, located just outside Savannkakhet. An international trade fair includes exhibitions of tourism products from Laos, Thailand and Vietnam and performances of traditional Lao, Thai and Vietnamese music and dance. The fair also includes a sports competition, complete with football, boxing, tennis and local traditions.