Chiang Mai Festivals |
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The Chiang Mai flower festival |
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Flowers in Chiang Mai are at their
best before the end of the cool season when this
festival is held. This falls o¬n the first weekend
of February. The centre of the festival is the parade
held in the morning of Saturday. Floats decorated
with flowers illustrate the theme chosen for the
year. The beauty queens surrounded by flowers make
a magical sight. The flower beds of the public gardens
are bathed in colour and special displays are maintained
till the end of Sunday. |
2009 flower
festival dates – Chiang Mai
Feb 2009 Exact dates TBC
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Songkran – Chiang Mai |
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This festival marks the Thai New
Year. If you suffered from a repressed childhood,
then Songkran is good therapy. The young at heart
arm themselves with anything that can project
water and drench all but monks. Down town and
around the moats, traffic becomes gridlocked as
revellers on sidewalks and pickup trucks battle
it out. Water throwing goes on for at least 4
days. The Thai New year is also marked with offerings
at the temples and parade on the streets of Chiang
Mai.
2009 Songkran Dates –
Chiang Mai
For 2009 Songkran will fall on
the 13-15 April. In Chiang Mai the water throwing
festivities will last over many days over this
period probably from the 11th to 16th. |
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Loi Krathong – Chiang Mai |
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Loi Krathong is the most colourful
festival of the year. It takes place over three
days of the full moon of the twelfth lunar month
which usually falls in November. People generally
believe that by releasing floats and balloons
they get rid of bad luck and give thanks to the
water and heavenly elements. For the three nights
of the festival people release small floats known
as Krathong with offerings that include incense,
candles, flowers and money into the rivers and
lakes.. The River Ping becomes a stream of lights
floating gently with the current. Small paper
hot air balloons rise like lanterns high into
the sky complementing the floats drifting o¬n
the waters. Fireworks are let off everywhere particularly
on the banks of the Ping River and there is a
parade each night in Chiang Mai.
2008 Loi Kratong dates
– Chiang Mai
12 and 13th Nov 2008 |
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Bo Sang Umbrella Festival |
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Bo Sang Umbrella & Sankampang Handicrafts
Festival take place 20th-22nd January at Ban Bo
Sang, Sankampang. The festival is in the form of
a "street fair" in which the central road
of the village is used, with stores on both sides.
Stores are decorated in Lanna style, most with the
well-known umbrellas, as well as with traditional
lanterns. In addition there are contests, exhibitions,
cultural performances, local entertainment, and
assorted shows day and night. There is a grand procession
decorated with umbrellas and local products, a variety
of handicrafts for sale, northern-style kantoke
meals, and the Miss Bo Sang pageant. |
2009 Bo
Sang Umbrella Festival dates
January 2009 dates TBC |
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