Pi Mai marks Lao New Year and Sanford’s Wat Navaram Buddhist Temple is celebrating with lots of culture & the Songkran water ...

People across the country this week joyfully gathered to celebrate the start of a new year – 2568 in the Buddhist Era ...

A few of our Thai, Laotian, and Cambodian writers share their favorite ways of ringing in the new year during this festival ...

Wat Phou (Vat Phou) in southern Laos – officially known ... and traces of a variety of Buddhist doctrines may be seen in many Khmer temples. Now little more than a ruin, the location, recognised ...

While most tourists visiting Laos head to the ancient ... main square in Wat Si Saket, a temple that radiates serene beauty. A gong chimes, followed by deep Buddhist chants. The few foreign ...

One monk said his old temple was ‘reduced to heaps of ashes,’ as the fires continue to rage across the country ...