Festival in Thailand

Festival in Thailand

What is the meaning of festival?

• Festival is a day or period of celebration.

Water Festival (Songkran)

Where: Everywhere in Thailand
When: 13th to 15th of April
• Songkran is Thailand’s most famous festival.
• Songkran is the traditional Thai New Year (holiday).
• Songkran is the biggest, longest and funniest festival in Thailand.
• Songkran takes place throughout the whole country.

Ghost Festival (Phi Ta Khon)

Where: Dan Sai, Loei province. (The north-east of Thailand or Esan)
When: June or July
• Phi Ta Khon is one of the strangest and creepiest festivals in

Thailand.
• Held 3 days on weekend: parades on Friday, music shows on

Saturday and Buddhist ceremonies on Sunday.
• Local people made colorful ghost masks and celebrate Buddhist

merit-making holiday.

Rocket Festival (Boon Bang Fai)

Where: Yasothorn Province
When: June or July
• Boon Bang Fai is celebrated by the farming communities of Esan as

well as Laos.
• It starts in the wet season (Rainy season)
• Boon Bang Fai is the biggest party before planting season begins.

Lantern Festival (Yi Peng)

Where: Chiang Mai (The north of Thailand)
When: November
• Lantern Festival is celebrated before Loy Krathong festival .
• Yi Peng is celebrated on the full moon of the twelfth lunar

month every year.
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FLOATING FESTIVAL (Loy Kratong)

When: in November
Where: Everywhere in Thailand
• Loy Krathong is on the night of the 12th lunar month at the end

of the rainy season.
• Time to thank the Water Goddess for giving water throughout

the year as well as an apology for polluting the waters.

Bun Phawet

• When: around March to April
• Where: in Esan mostly in Roi-Et