Bo Sang
Umbrella Festival is held in
January in Bo Sang Handicraft Centre.
The festival features paper products,
paper parasols in particular, cultural
shows, a parade showing traditional
ways of life, and several contests.
Flower Festival
is held in February. The festival
includes ornamental garden flower
contests, floral floats parade
in the morning and beauty pageants.
The parade begins at Chiang Mai
Railway Station and passes Nawarat
Bridge and ends at Nong Buak Hat
Park.
Songkran
Festival is held annually
from 13 to 15 April. The 13th
of April is the Great Songkran
day featuring the revered Phra
Phutthasihing Buddha image parade
around Chiang Mai town for bathing,
sand pagoda making, blessing of
elders, and water splashing.
Doi Suthep
Pilgrimage On the night of
Visakha Bucha Day, worshippers
gather to light candles and make
the 7-kilometre pilgrimage up
to the temple on Doi Suthep.
City Pillar
Inthakin Festival is held
to invoke blessings of peace,
happiness and prosperity for the
city and its residents. Buddha
images are paraded around the
city. It is held at Wat Chedi
Luang for 7 auspicious days and
nights in the 7th lunar month.
Yi
Peng Festival is held annually
on Loi Krathong day. It is a very
interesting event of Chiang Mai.
The festival features the release
of lanterns into the sky to worship
the gods. There are also fireworks,
lantern contests, and beauty pageants
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Popularly
known as the Rose of the North,
Chiang Mai is blessed with stunning
natural beauty and unique indigenous
cultural identity. Founded by King
Mengrai the Great as the capital
of the Lanna Thai kingdom by merging
the various city-states in the region
in 1296. Today Chiang Mai is the
economic, communications, cultural
and tourism centre of Northern Thailand.
