Chiang Mai Festivals |
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Yi
Peng Festival |
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Yi Peng Festival is held annually on Loi
Krathong day. It is a very interesting event of Chiang Mai.
The festival features launching lanterns into the sky to worship
the gods. There are also fireworks, lantern contests, and beauty
pageants. |
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Bo
Sang Umbrella Festival |
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Bo Sang Umbrella Festival is held in January
in Bo Sang Handicraft Centre. The festival features paper products,
paper parasols in particular, cultural shows, a parade showing
traditional ways of life, and several contests. |
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City
Pillar Inthakin Festival |
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City Pillar Inthakin Festival is held to
invoke blessings of peace, happiness and prosperity for the
city and its residents. Buddha images are paraded around the
city. It is held at Wat Chedi Luang for 7 auspicious days and
nights in the 7th lunar month. |
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Doi
Suthep Pilgrimage |
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On the night of Visakha Bucha Day, worshippers
gather to light candles and make the 7-kilometre pilgrimage
up to the temple on Doi Suthep. |
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Flower
Festival |
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Flower Festival is held in February. The
festival includes ornamental garden flower contests, floral
floats parade in the morning and beauty pageants. The parade
begins at Chiang Mai Railway Station and passes Nawarat Bridge
and ends at Nong Buak Hat Park. |
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Songkran
Festival |
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Songkran Festival is held annually from 13 to 15 April.
The 13th of April is the Great Songkran day featuring the revered
Phra Phutthasihing Buddha image parade around Chiang Mai town
for bathing, sand pagoda making, blessing of elders, and water
splashing. |
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