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Chiang Mai Arts and
Culture Festival |
Chiang Mai
City
1-9 Apr
Chiang Mai Province and
public and private officers have organized the Chiang Mai Arts and Culture
Festival to present the image of the city and to stimulate tourism to the
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Chiang Mai New Year
Festival |
Chiang Mai
City
Apr 11-16
Chiang Mai has preserved
this tradition and promotes it as the New Year's Day of Chiang Mai by
retaining the lovely traditions of the province until the event is now very
popular among Thai and foreign tourists.
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Bangkok Songkran
Festival
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Khao Sarn Road, Bang Lamphu,
Sanam Luang, Wat Maha That, Wat Pho
Apr 12-15
Everyone can
participate in the festival. It id fun-filled affair that is hugely popular.
The traditional Thai New Year is celebrated throughout Bangkok, but
officially at Sanam Luang, the large field fronting the Grand Palace, where
the revered Phra Buddha Sihing image is displayed and bathed by devotees,
and at Wisutkasat, where a Miss Songkran beauty contest accompanies the
practices of giving alms to the monks, paying respects to elders and
numerous forms of entertainment, including high-spirited water throwing.
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Nationwide
Apr 12-15,
2002
Songkran is the
traditional Thai New Year and a special occasion for merry-making throughout
Thailand. Thais celebrate Songkran with religious ceremonies, water throwing
and public festivities, such as beauty contests, parades and marching bands.
Anyone who ventures out on the streets is likely to get a thorough soaking,
but all in a spirit of goodwill, blessing and fun, which can be refreshing
at the peak of the hot season.
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Phra Nakhon Si
Ayutthaya Songkran Festival |
Ayutthaya
Apr 13-15
Phra Nakhon Si
Ayutthaya Province holds the Songkran Festival to build awareness and pride
in Thai art and culture in order to show respect to elders whose good deeds
have been passed down since ancient times.
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Phra Pradaeng
Songkran Festival |
Phra Pradaeng
Samut Prakan
Apr 19-21
This is very well-known
and joyous annual festival celebrated by the Mons, one group of Thailand's
earliest settlers, who live in this district just south of Bangkok. The
event involves a thorough cleansing of the house, making merit in various
ways and conducting vibrant colourful processions. |