Thailand Festivals
Thailand is one of the most popular tourist destination and we have more than the scenic beauty beaches, water-sport parks, food markets, shopping malls and temples! There are several festivals celebrated in Thailand that you must attend , especially when you are a culture-traveller. Take a look at some of the best festivals in Thailand below that you can be a part of on your next trip to our kingdom.
1. Songkran Festival
Songkran Festival or the Water Festival Thailand is perhaps one of the most famous and fun festivals in the country, and possibly in the world. This long and large festival involves a 3-day (between April 13 and April 15) water fight in which people participate across the whole 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. Songkran is also a major event in the Buddhist calendar, making it the most important Thai festival , as it is also Thai cultural New Year period too. During these 3 national holidays, Thai Buddhists visit temples to pray, light candles and make merit as well as cleanse each other with water. Tourists are welcome to take part in Songkran celebrations and are even singled out for special drenching by Thai locals.
2. Loy Krathong festival
Loy Krathong festival. During Loy Krathong, people all over Thailand gather by the water after dark to release floating baskets made from banana tree trunks and Lotus Petals, filled with local flowers, coins and burning candles. Sometimes, the baskets also carry with them a clipping of the owner’s hair or nails to symbolise letting go of bad luck and negative thoughts. Flowers and coins are also placed to give thanks to the water goddesses for providing rain during the rice harvest season. The burning candle pays respect to Lord Buddha. Loy Krathong has evolved into one of the largest festivals in Thailand which contains with parades, beauty contests and firework displays. The most famous Loy Krathong is in Chiang Mai’s (Yi Peng festival) as it occurs on the same night and focuses on the same Buddhist principles of releasing the past and making wishes for the future.
2. Phuket Vegetarian Festiva
Phuket Vegetarian Festival. If you want to see people pushing knives through their cheeks, setting off firecrackers and walking over hot coals, and eat some tasty vegetarian food, visit one of the most unique Thailand festivals, and this is called the Nine Emperor Gods celebration in Phuket city. Nowadays, thousands of people , not only in Thailand, but from across Asia visiting Phuket city for this nine-day festival. Rituals include eating a vegetarian diet to cleanse the body and mind and taking offerings to temples to pray. The more gruesome aspects of the festival, like the body piercing, are practised by mediums to invoke the gods. At the start of the festival, a 10-metre pole is raised to alert the nine gods and participants descend into a trance-like state as they take part in a street procession.
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