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.
