Lhai Heua Fai – Festival Of Floating Boats Of Light – Laos

Lhai Heua Fai Festival also marks the end of Buddhist Lent and is meant to bring in the phanga naga or good luck. As part of the tradition, each household will make a small round boat out of banana leaves on part of a banana tree trunk into which they put flowers, incense sticks, candles, betel nuts, and sometimes food and money. Temples and villages also take part, creating larger and more elaborately decorated boats made out of bamboo and colored paper.

These boats are then paraded through town making its way eventually to the river. The handmade boats are delicately placed on the river with their candles alit. Prayers fill the air, giving homage and respect to Buddha, the divinities who inhabit the river, and the Mekong itself. people also ask for blessing and to float their bad luck for the past year away, enabling the good luck to flow in. With the soft glow of candles reflecting on the water, the boats filled with offerings are gently sent floating downriver. It makes for a truly breathtaking scene. This tradition has been happening for thousands of years.

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