15
May
Last Days in Asia
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I had a couple of days in Pakse before I had to get going. That gave me enough time to head up to Ban Saphai where they do weaving for the skirts that all the women do. I asked how to get there at my guesthouse and found out that they were going to be starting their rocket festival the day I wanted to go. The rocket festival is a pre-Buddhist tradition where the towns shoot rockets up in the air in order to anger the gods and which will cause them to make it rain. It’s done at the start of May every year in order to provoke the rainy season into starting. The fact that the rainy season was already beginning wasn’t going to stop them from celebrating.
