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Lamphun One Hundred Thousand lanternes & Loy Krathong Festival - Thailand
Lamphun One Hundred Thousand lanternes & Loy Krathong Festival
Information about Lamphun One Hundred Thousand lanternes & Loy Krathong Festival
Every year, the small town of Lamphun located about thirty kilometers south of Chiang Mai organizes its Festival of 100,000 Lanterns at Wat Hariphunchai. The festival starts several weeks before Loy Krathong and ends on Loy Krathong day. This temple is also a very good place to celebrate this Buddhist festival.What makes this festival magical are the tens of thousands of colorful traditional lanterns that are hung in the courtyard of Wat Phra That Hariphunchai temple. At night, it’s just magical!
Two days before Loy Krathong, there is a big procession which takes place around 6 p.m. And on the day of Loy Krathong, in addition to the prayers at the temple and the colorful lanterns hung, the inhabitants put their krathongs (small homemade rafts topped with a candle and 3 incense sticks) into the water in the nearby river. /p>
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Location : Lamphun
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The best festivals in Thailand
With a lot of traditions, festivals in Thailand are numerous and some are worldwide famous. Loy Krathong sometimes also called the Festival of Lights is held in November and was elected second best festival in the world. It must be said that this is the most photogenic festival in Thailand.
Public holidays in Thailand
The main events of the Buddhist calendar but also the anniversaries of the King and Queen of Thailand and other days related to the History of the country are holidays in Thailand. If banks and administrations are generally closed those days, transport, shops and restaurants operate normally.
