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Chiang
Mai : Festivals & Events 2012 |
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Bo
Sang Umbrella Festival (20-22 Jan)
 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 (3-5 Feb)
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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 (April)
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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)
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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
(28 Nov)
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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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