Thailand Festival that The Foreigners Most Like

Thailand Festival is a Thai celebrated that a rich cultures and traditions. You can learn about Thai culture and Buddhist rituals, pay your respects on religious holidays, and simply have fun participating in and witnessing some of the best Thai Festival. Here are our recommendations for unmissable Thailand holidays and other events that you can time with your.

1. Phi Ta Khon (The Ghost  of Thailand Festival)

The Ghost Festival is one of the most interesting Thailand traditional festivals. Phi Ta Khon is a festival that combines religious traditions, a fun-loving party atmosphere, and local handicrafts and people wear colorful, ghost masks with stretched faces and phallic noses. The Ghost Festival’s origin is a mixture of Buddhist and animist beliefs.

• Location: Dan Sai Town, Loei province, Isan, Thailand
• Held On: The events take place over three days sometime between March and July (The dates being selected annually by the town’s mediums)

2. Songkran Festival (The water of Thailand  Festival)

Songkran Festival is one of the most fun festivals in the country.  An important event on the Buddhist calendar, this water festival marks the beginning of the traditional Thai New Year. This long and large festival involves a 3-day water fight in which people participate across the country. With drinking, music, dancing, and people drenched from head to toe, people use buckets, hose pipes, water guns, and anything else that they can get their hands on to use to splash water on others. The traditions originate with the blessings and prayers for Buddhist Monks. Ancient Thai tradition warranted visiting the local monasteries and providing gifts of food to the monks who resided there.

• Location: Thailand
• Held On: April 13th to 15th of every years

3. Yee Peng Festival (The Lantern of Thailand Festival)

Yee Peng Festival in Chiang Mai is celebrated on the full moon of the twelfth lunar month ever year, which normally means mid-way through November. People gather down by the banks of the Peng River and release thousands of paper lanterns into the sky and watch them float away in the gentle evening breeze. You can also witness religious ceremonies, firework displays, parades, and the releasing of paper boats in the river.

• Location: Chiang Mai province, Thailand
• Held On:  November of every years

4. Boon Bang Fai (The Rocket Festival)

The Rocket Festival is a famous festival in Thailand that is significant to the farming communities of Issan, which is located in the north-eastern part of the country. Entire villages attend the festival because they are considered the last big ‘knees up’ before the start of the planting season. The rockets are shot up to encourage the Gods to send down plenty of rainfall. Elaborate rockets are built and paraded around on the first day of Boon Bang Fai, and then launched high into the air throughout the weekend. Every Rocket Festival is accompanied by live folk music, beauty pageants, drinking of local rice wine, and a party full of fun and frolic.

• Location: Thailand
• Held On: May to June of every years

5. Wing Kwai Festival (The Buffalo Racing of Thailand Festival)

Wing Kwai is the festival wherein buffalo racing is held. The tradition of buffalo racing has been followed since100 years in Thailand. Buffalo Racing Festival is held to be grateful to the buffalos after their hard working for farmers throughout the year. The race course is 100 meters long which is located in the front of Chonburi City Hall. Apart from buffalo racing, the festivals also hosts buffalo beauty competition, buffalo decorations and more. After attending to these, you can enjoy other fete games available in the festival.

• Location: Chonburi province, Thailand
• Held On: The day before the full moon night of the 11th Lunar month at the end of Buddhist Lent.

6. Phuket Vegetarian Festival

The Phuket Vegetarian Festival is a colorful annual event held on the 9th lunar month of the Chinese calendar, usually in September or October. The festival celebrates the Chinese community’s belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants will help them obtain good health and peace of mind. This festivals during a month before that people abstain themselves from consuming meat, garlic, onions, etc. This month is then followed by a grand celebration in the month of October when people involve themselves in gruesome activities like laying on knives and piercing face.

• Location: Phuket province, Thailand
• Held On: The 9th lunar month of the Chinese calendar, usually in September or October of every years

7. Loi Krathong (The Thailand Festival of Light)

Loi Krathong is a Thai festival celebrated annually throughout. The name could be translated as “to float a ritual vessel or lamp,” and comes from the tradition of making krathong or buoyant, decorated baskets, which are then floated on a river. Many Thai use the krathong to thank the Goddess of Water, the Hindu Goddess Ganga, Phra Mae Khongkha. Flowers and coins are also placed in the baskets to give thanks to the water goddesses for providing rain during the rice harvest season. The flickering candle itself pays respect to Lord Buddha.

• Location: Thailand
• Held On: Full moon of the 12th Thai month of every years

8. The Lopburi Monkey Buffet Festival

The Monkey Buffet Festival is held annually in Lopburi, Thailand. In the Thai city of Lopburi, monkeys rule. Local people revere the long-tailed macaques so much that every year they hold an extravagant feast for them in the crumbly ruins of an old Khmer temple. Over 3,000 macaques attend the banquet of fruit, vegetables and sticky rice, which is laid out on long tables. Before the banquet, Lopburi locals perform songs, speeches and monkey dances in honor of the macaques.

• Location: Lopburi province, Thailand
• Held On: November of every years

9. Surin Elephant Festival

Surin Elephant festival is celebrated for these giant animals of Thailand. Historically, elephants were considered a very pivotal part of Thailand during the battle, agricultural procedures, as well as for traveling. Celebrated in the northeastern region of Thailand, this festival will let you witness the majestic parade of elephants that are fed heartily with vegetables and fruits. The venue for the event, Si Narong Stadium, has been dubbed the “world’s largest domestic elephant village”. This is one of those Thailand festivals that tourists must attend, for it reflects the cultural as well as historical significance of the country.

• Location: Surin Province, Isan, Thailand
• Held On: Third week of November each years

10. Full Moon Party

Full Moon parties are the largest beach party in the world. It is an all night party with 30,000 or more people on the beach each month to dance and play with fire and have a merry time. The vibe is insane. The first Full Moon Party is have been improvised at a Paradise Bungalows on the beach in 1983 as a token of thanks to about 20–30 travelers. One has to experience it once to believe it. Mostly attended by tourists, the full moon parties have grown extremely popular. The area mostly stays busy with people celebrating every phase of the moon.

• Location: Koh Pha Ngan (Koh Phangan) island
• Held On: The night of the full moon, every month of the year

11. Satun Kite Festival

The Satun Kite festival is being held to promote and preserve Thailand’s traditional kites as well as to strengthen the country’s foreign relations with other nations in Southeast Asia. The festival will showcase many international kites, and there will be competitions in eight different categories, including Beauty, Creativity, High Flying, Nice Sounds, Marathon, native Kites, Giant and Student’s Kites. There will be over 100 teams from Thailand and thirty different countries participating in annual event.

• Location: Satun Province, Thailand
• Held On: February of every years

 

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