Bon Om Touk - Phnom Penh Editorial Photo

Bon Om Touk English: Boat Racing Festival, or the Cambodian Water & Moon Festival, is a Cambodian festival celebrated in November, sometimes ending in late October. The official name of the festival is Royal Ceremony Bon Om Touk, Bondet Bratib, Og Ambok ning Sampeah Preah Khae, It marks the reversal of the flow of the Tonle Sap River. It corresponds to the lunar Mid-Autumn Festival. The festival is marked by dragon boat races, similar to the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival.Visitors from every town and province travel to Phnom Penh to watch boat races along the Sisowath Quay and visited illuminated floating royal boats with firework and attend free concerts in the evenings over night. The festival lasts three days, and commemorates the end of the country`s rainy season, as well as the change in flow of the Tonle Sap River. It includes boat races and concerts, and attracts several million people each year.