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BUN BANG FAI
( 2nd weekend of May, Yasothon )
This bamboo rocket launching festival is the most thrilling regional celebrations of Thailand. The belief behind the festival is to ensure plentiful rain during the coming rice cultivating season.
FESTIVALS & CEREMONIES
Visitors can best witness cultural manifestation at several festivals ceremonies, celebration, events that are unique only to the northeast. Almost all of them base entirely on the cultivation.