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Chiang Mai Festivals
Chiang Mai celebrates
many annual festivals. Three are particularly lively and lovely.
They are the Flower Festival, the first Friday and weekend of
every February. Songkran, 13-15 April each year and Loi Krathong
on the full-moon night of the twelfth lunar month generally in
November.
Flower Festival
- the 3-day event occurs during the period when Chiang
Mai's temperate and tropical flowers are in full bloom and at
their colourful best. Festivities include colourful floral floats
parades music and dancing and beauty pageants.
Songkran
-This festival celebrates the traditional Thai New Year with religious
merit-making pilgrimages beauty parades dancing merriment and
uninhibited good-natured water-throwing.
Loi Krathong
- People float away banana-leaf boats bearing a lighted
candle incense flower and a small coin to honour the water spirits
and wash away the previous year's misfortunes.
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