Lao New Year - War of the Worlds Part 1

Lao New Year or Songkran if you are in Thailand, used to be a time when people clean their houses, pay respects to elders and visit the temples to earn merits. The elders would then sprinkle some water down the young people's necks as a form of blessing. But somewhere down the road, some dumbasses took the "sprinkling" of water too literally. They started using water pistols, then super soakers and then went up to water buckets and finally, they brought out the damn water hose. The Lao people will then party along the roadside and when intoxicated with copious amount of beer, whisky and maybe other stuff, started dancing and acting silly. Here are some pictures taken with great risk to sanity and the price of a puncture tire.

Setthathirath road is lined with wild party animals.


A nice and wholesome party. It is still early in the day. Everyone is still nicely dressed - sort of.

Ahh, but sooner or later, drunk revellers started invading Setthathirath road and at this point, order quickly broke down. Nice jeep there, anyway.

Here comes all the "dyed hairs". Mud rockers wannabes and your average men in woman's clothes. Everyone swaying to some headbanging or old disco music which the average Singaporean would not be caught dead dancing to the tune of it. Zouk and MOS goers, welcome to Laos' version of a Zouk Out. Some more pics of ass-drunk and half naked Lao men.

(Help, I can't see because I am a dumbass who is wearing ink-black glasses)

Sooner or later, some dude will start wearing a bra and jump up and down on a table. It won't be Lao New Year if some dumbass doesn't start cross-dressing.

Everyone get drenched by trucks of crazily dressed Lao people. If you are a girl on motorbike, you have a snowball's chance in hell of staying dry. If you are a pretty girl on motorbike, well, you really shouldn't be on the road. Because, there will be dipshits which physically stop you on the road and try to drown you.

Pirates of the Caribbean exchanging salvos of water.

More crazy pictures of Lao New Year later. Before I go hunting for food again in my beat-up Toyota Tercel, I will post something I just saw which is symbolic of the general madness which seemed to be higher than last year's level. Take a look of this dude in crazy gold and blue wig dancing and laughing in the middle of the road. Nearly got sandwiched between a car and a lorry. Man, if I wasn't driving on a flat tyre when I saw this, I would be so tempted to run his sorry ass over.