Nong Khai Songkran Festival
Nong Khai, Apr 2010 (annual)
Songkran is Thailand's New Year festival. In the north-eastern Nong Khai province watch as a beautiful procession heads for Wat Pho Chai, where water is sprinkled on the sacred Luang Pho Phra Sai Buddha image.
Naga Fireballs at Nong Khai Province
Nong Khai, Oct 2010 (annual)
The Mekong River is home to a strange, beautiful and baffling phenomenon - the Naga Fireballs. On the full moon night of October, coinciding with the end of the Buddhist Rains Retreat, hundreds of colourful fireballs rise out of the river.