Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand – Events and Festivals
Event Calendar – Thailand
December 3, 2000
The Royal Plaza, Bangkok
The King and Queen preside over this impressive annual event near the statue of King Chulalongkorn. Members of the elite Royal Guards swear allegiance and march past the Royal Family.
December 5-11, 2000
Nai Han Beach, Phuket
December 13-19, 2000
Ayutthaya Historical Park, Ayutthaya
Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991, Ayutthaya, an ancient Siamese capital, celebrates its past with displays of traditional culture and lifestyles, entertainment and a light and sound show amid the ruins of this ancient city.
Festivals
Each November the hillsides of Amphoe Khum Yuam and Amphoe Mae Sariang are filled with golden Bua Tong or wild sunflower blooms. The Bua Tong blossoms for about 30 days only and is enough reason for the Bua Tong Blossom Festival at Amphoe Khun Yuam.
The Chong Para in Thai Yai (hilltribe) dialect means a castle made of wood, covered with colorful perforated papers and decorated with fruits, flags and lamps. This rite is held during the post-rain retreat season from the full-moon day of the 11th Lunar month to the waxing-moon night of the same month.
Held on full moon night in November every year. Villagers make Krathongs and float them in the rivers. At Nong Chong Kham, a contest of large krathongs is held near the central pond. Lamps and candles are lit all around the area. At Wat Phra That Doi Kong Mu, there is a ceremony of releasing candle-lit krathongs bound with balloons into the sky called Loi Krathong Sawan.
The celebration of novice ordination which the Thai Yai tribe people hold to be a highly meritorious occasion. Traditionally, the candidate-novice, his head cleanly shaven and wrapped with head-cloth in Burmese style will don a prince-like garment and put on valuable jewels and gems, ride a horse or be carried over the shoulders of a man to the town shrine. Held in March-May before the Buddhist Rain Retreat period.
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