Lao Culture

Traditional training in Laos

A unique practice in the world, by Bounmy

More about dressage: translated with Google... The elephant must be four to seven years old. (…)

Cremation

Death. Even though it is painful, it is also looked on as a deliverance by Buddhist religion; (…)

Traditional Lao wedding

Lao marriages take place over a period of 2 days. The evening before the ceremony, the bonzes (…)

Lao silk

Handmade wild silk in all Lao country

Lao silk is a wild silk, and is defined by its exclusively hand-made method of manufacture. (…)

The people, tribes and ethnic groups of Laos

With nearly 5 million inhabitants on an area half the size of France, Laos is one of the least (…)

The National Anthem

The melody of the National Anthem may not have changed between the old monarchist government and (…)

History of Lao country

From the Palaeolithic to 2000 A.D.

The people of Laos originally came from China, where there are still about 20 million (…)

General information

6 million people with more than 60 ethnic groups

Laos is definitely a ‘green’ country; luxurious vegetation, mountains and forests interspersed, (…)

Introduction

The intouched country in South-East Asia

In this very poor country, one of the things you notice, is that nobody dies of hunger. Most (…)