Thailand Festivals

This event celebrates the beginning of Buddhist Lent and involves the carving of elaborate candles paraded on boats off the Chao Phraya River. Additionally, there are folk games, a decorated house along Latchadoh canal contest, as well as a miniature duplication of Latchadoh market.

TAT Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Tel: +66 3524 6076-7
Email: prdiv3@tat.or.th

The Osaka International Music Competition aims to find young artists from around the world and help them to compete in an international setting. The Bangkok Regional Round of this long-standing competition will see musicians auditioning as concert concerto soloists in the following categories: Section 1 - piano, winds, strings and vocal music; Section II: early music, two pianos, four hands, duo, ensemble, folk instruments and recital course; and Section III: youth, amateurs.

Tel: +66 2800 2525 ext 147
Email: msmu.activity@gmail.com
Web: www.music.mahidol.ac.th/osaka

The annual show of beautiful flowers is between growers, exporters and importers of orchids from around the world. The focus of the show is on techniques, species and new developments in the growth of flowers.

TAT Bangkok Tel: +66 2250 5500
Email: center@tat.or.th

This water-based festival celebrates the beginning of Buddhist Lent with a candle floating procession, a competition to award the best-decorated riverside home, traditional games, a photo exhibition on the local way of life, and a re-creation of the floating market as it used to be in the old days.

TAT Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Tel: +66 3524 6076-7
Email: tatyutya@tat.or.th

Feature a candle light procession with flowers, this Prathat Phanom serves to pay homage to Buddha at Lent.

TAT Nakhon Phanom Tel: +66 42 513490-1
Email: tatphnom@tat.or.th

A celebrations of one of Phuket's oldest communities, the Kathu Cultural Street Festival honours the traditions and customs of Kathu with a light and sound show, live music, handicrafts, traditional children's games, local food, street stalls plus exhibitions that include tin mining, an important economic activity over a hundred years ago.

Tel: +66 76 322130
Email: info@kathucity.go.th
Web: www.kathucity.go.th

This four-day event will see participants cycling around the province of Kanachaburi arriving at a different destination at the end of each day. There are four stages: Stage 1a 10km Individual Time Trial (ITT); Stage 2 a 110km Road; Stage 3 a 140km Road; Stage 4 a 70km Road stage.

Tel: +66 84 332 0006
Web: www.facebook.com/poryailookredbike

This festival marks the beginning of Buddhist Lent and shows devotion to Buddhist tradition and skills in carving candles. The Candle Procession features the Royal Candle sent by His Majesty the King and the carved beeswax candles made by the local people, which are paraded around the city streets on floats. There is also an International Wax Sculpture Competition in which artists from all over the world display their works.

TAT Ubon Ratchathani Tel: +66 4524 3770, +66 4525 0714
Email: tatubon@tat.or.th

The culturally-rich heritage of Nan province plays host to the International Folk Culture Festival. Home to tribal peoples, the province has a Lanna heritage. The event showcases cultural performances from not only Thailand, but China, Vietnam, Myanmar and Lao showing that Nan culture is interlinked with its neighbours in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.

TAT Phrae (&Nan) Tel: +66 54 521127
Email: tatphrae@tat.or.th

The four-day Akha Giant Swing Festival known honours the goddess of fertility and women. Held in August-September at the height of the rainy reason, the event celebrates the abundance of crops to be harvested and features primarily women on swings swaying at large heights often over a cliff.

Center for Social Development unit 12 Chiang Rai Tel: +66 53 918415
Akha Association Tel: +66 53 714250, 081 952 2179