The Boat Racing Festival on The Nam Khan, Luang Prabang on 23 August, 1968 (B.E. 2511). In the past, we called this Festival that Phra Raja Boat Racing Festival because the King sent his racing boat to this event and he also watched the racing by himself.The Boat Racing Festival is a tradition of people of Luang Prabang that has been continually done since the past, it corresponds to Boun Khao Padap Din on the 15th day of the waning moon of the 9th month of Lao calendar every year.This photo was written by Sathou Nyai Khamchan Virachitta Mahathera, the abbot of Vat Saen Soukharam that the racing boat of Ban Vat Saen (right) competing to the racing boat of Ban Sing on the Nam Khan, Luang Prabang on 3 September, 1967 (B.E. 2510), and the racing boat of Ban Vat Saen is the first.
Original material consists of: silver gelatine DOP print.
