Festivals in Thailand more information

Do you want to know about Thai Festivals - the small and the big?

Please visit Thai Festivals blog - wonderful.

Festivals of Thailand

and

Thai Festival Blogs

written by Richard Barrow.

The Royal Ploughing Ceremony 2011

photo from Frizz

I posted a blog about the Royal Ploughing Ceremony previously - so have a look.

This year the two white sacred oxen ate the grass and drank the liquor - which means that the country expects plentiful food supplies and flourishing trade...


Here are some beautiful photographs.

watch this space ;-)

Surin Elephant Ordination Festival (15 - 17 May)

I saw this as an advert in the Bangkok Post - it looks interesting.  It features the ordination ceremony of the Thai Kui ethnic group.  There is a procession of Buddhist ordination candidates to their designated shrines - a marvelous display.

  

Yasothon Bun Bangfai Festival Rocket Festival - 2011

permission requested - thailandfestival blog

Posted about the Rocket Festival last year AND the Mud festival which followed.

To know more the Tourist of Authority of Thailand (TAT) has good information and there are some great photographs on the thaifestivals blog.

World Durian Festival (5 - 15 May)

Well if you really like the fruit I could imagine that this would be a wonderful experience

BUT not the World Durian Festival is not for me.

Getting to Chanthaburi: Air-conditioned buses depart from Bangkok’s Eastern Bus Terminal (Ekkamai) every hour, 

from 4 a.m. - midnight.