Beyond the communists and the monks, the rest of the parade was a bit hard to figure out. The line between spectators and participants was very blurred, as everyone knows everyone so the two groups were always stopping to chat with one another. The one theme I remember was vegetables, as each town in the district sent a delegation, and they each chose their favorite vegetable and carried a big plastic replica of said vegetable down the street. Apparently that wasn't that photogenic because I don't have any photos of it, so I've left you instead with the usual assortment of hill tribes, elephants, a man paddling a boat down the street, etc. You get the idea.