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.
