{"id":4981,"date":"2024-04-05T12:39:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T05:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laotravellinks.com\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2024-04-05T12:39:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T05:39:42","slug":"lao-new-year-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backdateddegree.net\/laotravellink\/lao-new-year-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Lao New Year Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pi Mai Festival Overview<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Lao New Year Celebration, Pi Mai<\/a>, also known as Boun Pi, is the most popular festival in Laos. It usually lasts 3 days, but in Luang Prabang<\/a>, it can extend to almost a week. The main attraction is the water festival<\/a>, where participants joyfully throw water at each other using water guns and buckets. The festivities also feature a bustling market, a lively island party near Ban Xieng Men, and a traditional Baci ceremony to welcome the new year and honor the elders.<\/p>\n

Day One<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The festival starts with a vibrant market on Luang Prabang\u2019s main avenue, showcasing various products from Laos and beyond. In the afternoon, festivities move to an island near Ban Xieng Men<\/a>. Here, a lively party takes place, and people create traditional sand pyramids for good fortune.<\/p>\n

Day Two<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The second day of the Lao New Year Celebration is known as the ‘day without a year.’ People use this day to enjoy their favorite activities and prepare for the new year.<\/p>\n

Day Three<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Day Three: On the third day, a grand parade takes place. Monks and participants, dressed in traditional attire, march to the sacred temple of Wat Xieng Thong.<\/a><\/p>\n

Final Day<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Final Day: The final day marks the start of the new year. Families host Baci ceremonies<\/a> at home to welcome the Lao New Year and offer well-wishes to their elders. Later, devotees ceremoniously pour water on the sacred Prabang statue at Wat Mai<\/a>, seeking blessings for the coming year. The festival concludes with a candlelight procession around the temple, symbolizing the end of the celebration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pi Mai Festival Overview Lao New Year Celebration, Pi Mai, also known as Boun Pi, is the most popular festival…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-time-to-visit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backdateddegree.net\/laotravellink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backdateddegree.net\/laotravellink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backdateddegree.net\/laotravellink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backdateddegree.net\/laotravellink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backdateddegree.net\/laotravellink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/backdateddegree.net\/laotravellink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backdateddegree.net\/laotravellink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backdateddegree.net\/laotravellink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backdateddegree.net\/laotravellink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}