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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