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Chiang Mai Festivals

•  Yi Peng Festival

  
  Yee-Peng Festival
  (Tha Phae Gate)
  from Chiangmai City
  about 2 kms.
  
  
  Bo Sang Umbrella
  from Chiangmai City
  about 9 kms.

  Yi eng Festival is held annually on Loi Krathong day. It is a very interesting event of Chiang Mai. The festival features launching lanterns into the sky to worship the gods. There are also fireworks, lantern contests, and beauty pageants.
   

• Bo Sang Umbrella Festival
  
  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.
   
• City Pillar Inthakin Festival
  
  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.
   
• 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.
   
• Flower Festival
  
  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
  
  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.
   
• Royal Flora Ratchapruek 2006
  
  Royal Flora Ratchapruek 2006, the International Horticultural Exposition for His Majesty the King during November 1, 2006 – Jan 31, 2007 (92 Days), is held at the Royal Agricultural Research Centre in Mae Hia sub-district, Muang district, Chiang Mai in order to celebrate the most auspicious occasion of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s 60th Anniversary or Diamond Jubilee of His Majesty’s Accession to the Throne together with the 80th Birthday Anniversary of His Majesty’s The King.

Source: Information by Tourism Authority of Thailand