Thai Festivals & Events Thai Photo Blogs by Richard Barrow
The Khon Kaen Silk Festival is an event held in Khon Kaen, Isan, Thailand over ten days at the end of November and the beginning of December each year. It was first held in 1980. The event is centred on promotion of the local silk industry, but includes a wide range of other activities including parades and performances of mor lam music. This year it takes place between 29th November and 10th December 2011 in front of Khon Kaen...
Over the years I have seen some really great Thai festivals. This is a list of my Top 10 favourites in no particular order. (1) As the full moon of the twelfth lunar month (usually in mid-November) lights up the night sky, throughout the Thai kingdom, hundreds of thousands of ornately-decorated krathong or traditional banana leaf floats are set adrift in rivers and waterways in a spell-binding ritual called “Loy Krathong” – the ‘festival of lights”. This is one...
We have been receiving quite a few letters recently asking whether Loy Krathong has really been cancelled this year. This is not true though there will be no major organized events in any of the flooded areas. Apart from the fact that it would be dangerous to float krathongs near the river, the authorities decided people won’t be in the mood. This is backed up by a recent poll that said that 43% of respondents would not celebrate this...
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