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.
