An afternoon at the races

The boat races.

Melbourne has the Spring Racing Carnival, Vientiane has the Boat Racing Season.  It is held each year prior to the end of Buddhist Lent, with different villages holding races on weekends in September and October.

This afternoon I went for a look at the races on the Mekong at Chomchaeng village, on the outskirts of Vientiane. There seemed to be two boats in each race - not sure if they were heats or the finals as it was late in the afternoon.

The dragon boats are long boats built specially for racing.

More photos to come this week.