Chiang
Mai
Information
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When arriving
in Thailand ask for free copies of Thaiways magazine and Thaiways
maps from the information counter at airports or hotels.
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| Bo Sang
Umbrella Festival (18
- 20 January 2008) |
 At
this festival, Bo Sang Village holds a demonstration and sale
of various items made of sa paper, especially umbrellas. Besides,
there are cultural shows, parades and handicrafts competition. |
| Flower
Festival
(1 - 3 February 2008) |
| This event
occurs during the period when Chiang Mai's temperate and tropical
flowers are in full bloom. The festivities include colourful
floral floats, parades, traditional dancing shows and a beauty
contest. |
| Chiang
Mai Art & Culture Festival (1
- 9 April 2008) |
| It features
an exhibition of works of arts of the contemporary lanna (northern)
artists, dramas, cultural shows, concerts and sales of local
products. |
| Songkran
Festival (13
- 15 April 2008) |
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The celebrations
of this festival in Chiang Mai has become more and more famous
each year. The traditional events include merit-making at
temples, cultural shows, dancing shows, a beauty contest and
parade and good-natured water throwing. One significant event
is the procession of highly revered Phra Phuttha Sihing Buddha
image through the streets of Chiang Mai for people to sprinkle
water at as a form of worship. |
| Lantern
Festival & Loi Krathong Festival (11
- 13 November 2008) |
| This old
festival held on the full moon night of November is said to
be the most charming of all in Thailand. In Chiang Mai, a procession
of floats with beautiful maidens sitting on goes through the
city to the bank of the Mae Ping River, where hundreds of people
assembling to float their banana-leaf containers (krathong)
decorated with flowers and candles onto the river to worship
the Goddess of Water. Moreover, Lanna-style hot-air lanterns
are launched which are believed to help rid the locals of troubles
and are also taken to decorate houses and streets. |
| *The event dates are tentative, please
check before travelling. |
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