Saturday, January 7, 2012

Sit Back and Enjoy Loy Krathong Chiang Mai 2011

Membership site now open: http://retirecheap.tv/members Two of the biggest festivals in Thailand are Songkran and Loy Krathong. Bangkok and Chiang Mai are two of the places in Thailand that these celebrations really are taken seriously. Seriously fun, that is!
As the full moon of the twelfth lunar month (usually in mid-November) lights up the night sky, throughout the Thai kingdom, hundreds of thousands of ornately-decorated krathong or traditional banana leaf floats are set adrift in rivers and waterways in a spell-binding ritual called "Loy Krathong" - the 'festival of lights". This is one of the Kingdom's oldest and best-preserved traditions.
The Loy Krathong tradition we know of today has evolved from the royal rituals of the early Rattanakosin period in which several types of lanterns were set afloat in the Chao Phraya River and its waterways. Sit back and enjoy Loy Krathong in Chiang Mai.

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