Rockets

This past Friday was the Rocket Festival in Vang Vieng. This is an annual event where the locals fire off large home-made rockets as part of a celebration relating to the upcoming monsoon. The festival started in late morning and went on all day. The rockets are pretty large and the better ones probably traveled well over a mile so you could see them from everywhere in town.

Anyway, the festival was a good excuse to finally break out my camera so here are a few pictures.



Also, while I'm at it, here's an artsy crop of an picture I took on the bus from Vientiane to Vang Vieng my first day here. The full picture is rather crappy but I kind of like the cropped view.



Other than that there's not much to report. I'm back in Vientiane for the day to get a visa for Thailand so that I can stay longer than the 2 weeks they give you at the border. Assuming the visa is done on time I'm heading back to Vang Vieng tomorrow.