The mud festival in Yasoton is known as the "Bung Ban Fai" festival. This takes place in the whole province of Isan, but the city of Yasoton has the best festival, just like as Chiang-Mai is the best place for Songkran.

Rockets are fired in the air by neighbourhoods and clubs. The best rocket is the one that flies the longest time in the air. The symbol is that the rockets are send to the gods to ask for rain. The time is just before the rice is planted in the fields.

The tradition says that if someone has a bad rocket, which explodes or is going too short, the maker of the rocket is punished by being rolled in the mud. A bit of gentle mud wrestling is always fun.

But in practice, everyone who wants it, just jumps in and slides in the mud. Hundreds of young people are wallowing the whole day in the mud. It is another excuse for good soaking wet fun.

In 2005, unfortunately, the weather has been very dry before the festival, so there were not so many big mudpits as in the former years. Nevertheless the youth was present and rolled in the mud for fun.

Thereafter they could jump in the river to rinse out their muddy clothes. Rockets were fired into the clouds asking for rain to drench the ricefields. But no more rain was falling down that day. It was a bit dry this year, but we had a good time anyway.