Cambodian Water & Moon Festival

Bon Om Touk (Khmer: បុណ្យអុំទូក, IPA: [bon om tuːk]), or the Cambodian Water & Moon Festival, is a Cambodian festival celebrated in November, sometimes ending in late October and marks the reversal of the flow of the Tonle Sap River. 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. For three days, workers from every province join with the city's residents to celebrate by night and day. The festival lasts three days, and commemorates the end of the country's rainy season,^[1] as well as the change in flow of the Tonle Sap River.^[2] It includes boat races and concerts, and attracts several million people each year.^[1][3]

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Cambodian Water & Moon Festival
Cambodia First Celebration Water & Moon Festival 1914
Official name	Bon Om Touk Bondet Bratip Ork OMBOK ning Sompeah Preah Kher បុណ្យអុំទូកបណ្ដែតប្រទីប អកអំបុក និង សំពះព្រះខែ
Also called	Bon Om Touk
Observed by	Khmers
Significance	Marks the Cambodian Water Festival
2018 date	21-22-23 November
2019 date	10-11-12 November
2020 date	30-31-01 October & November
2021 date	18-19-20 November
Frequency	annual
Related to	Thailand Loi Krathong (in Thailand and Laos), Il Poya (in Sri Lanka) Tazaungdaing festival (in Myanmar