Loy Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai 2009

Loy Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai 2009 Tube. Duration : 5.70 Mins.

The world famous Loy Krathong Festival in Thailand this year took place between 1st & 3rd of November 2009 with the main day being the Full Moon night of November 2nd! The Loy Krathong festival always takes place on the first full-moon night of the twelfth lunar month. The custom of placing hand-made floats decorated with flowers and candles on waterways is believed to go back over 700 years to the Sukhothai Historical Period ,which was the formulative period for what became Siam & today is modern day Thailand. The word Loy means to float and Krathong is a small vessel made from banana leaves which can float on water. A candle is placed in the krathong, along with incense sticks and small coins. A wish is then made and the krathong is sent floating down the river. This act is seen as a symbolic gesture of gratitude to the Mother River the source of water without which we could not survive. Thai belief is that floating the beautiful Krathong away also refers to sending away misfortune and bad things from the past and asking for good luck & fortune in the future. In Northern Thailand the Loy Krathong festival which is also known as Yee Peng is particularly spectacular & is celebrated for two nights under the full moon. The celebrations in & around Chiang Mai include the release of thousands of Khom Loys (paper hot air floating lanterns) into the night sky all over the city, this really is a not to be missed event and is the feature of the video above. There is also a ...

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"Songkarn" - The Most illustrious Festival Of Thailand - The contact That You Will Never Forget

"Songkarn" - The Most illustrious Festival Of Thailand - The contact That You Will Never Forget

What does Songkarn means? How is it importance? You can find out the one of festival that you will never forget from this article.

Songkarn festival or water throwing festival is the long holiday for Thais and it is the one of the most prominent festival. The word "Songkarn" comes from Sanskrit language that means passing or approaching. This festival isn't only the funny celebrating but also the ceremony by Buddhism religion too. House will seem to be appreciated in this period, especially the old habitancy because their children will going back to their hometown and do greeting with their older relatives.

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Songkarn duration can isolate into three days and each day has their own specific name and activities that are different. April 13th is called "Songkarn day", April 14th is called "Nao day" or the day on which the sun travels in the middle of Pieces and Arise marking the old Thai New Year's Eve and April 15th the last day of this festival is called "Thai New Year's Day".

For the Activities, there are many kind of playing. The one that is customary in worldwide is water throwing activity, this is the funniest performance at all in my opinion, habitancy will go to the uptown of their own city for playing throwing water and painting face by chalk powder to the others even they are stranger. This performance will make habitancy knows each other, sometimes getting a merge in this performance is possible.

Another customary performance that the one of Thai habitancy will do by basically day, is doing the good thing or getting merit by offering food to the monk but it is separate from the commonplace day because they will go to the temple and it will have many activities over there such as Pouring scented water over Buddha image, building the sand pagodas and Playing some Thai customary plays that won't be seen in commonplace day and there will have some free Thai food for share with habitancy who comes join this ceremony.

This is just example of Songkarn festival activity, there will have more over that you couldn't imagine. You can seeing for more facts about Songkarn festival and the customary places that so noted for Songkarn festival by searching in Tat website but it will make you more convenience if you select some packages that was created by Thai-tourism branch that will serve convenient box for your life style.

"Songkarn" - The Most illustrious Festival Of Thailand - The contact That You Will Never Forget