Laos Wedding Dance

Over Chinese New Year I was in SE Asia. One evening while wandering around the town of Muang Sing in northern Laos where I stayed for a few days, I was invited into a wedding aprty that was going on. What an interesting experience. The tables were covered with food (LOTS of sticky rice!), the men were wandering around - if not already passed out in their chairs - trying to get you to drink as much Lao Lao (their traditional liquor - VERY strong!) as possible, while the music (made by a succession of singers along with a guy on a Casio keyboard) blasted out of an enormous PA system at god-awful volume levels: you could here it pretty much all over town. There were a few other foreigners there (a Polish guy, a Japanese couple) who'd also been invited in and so we had some good chats between us, but also with some of the younger people- some of whom spoke surprisingly good English. A good time was certainly had by all. Here's a few video highlights anyways.