Festivals in Thailand

Festival of Lights where thousands of lotus-shaped lanterns are floated on rivers and waterways to honor the water spirits.

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• Floating krathongs on rivers
• Fireworks displays
• Beauty pageants

Thai New Year water festival - the world's largest water fight.

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• Water fights
• Temple visits
• Sand pagodas

Thousands of sky lanterns released simultaneously into the night sky over Chiang Mai.

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• Mass sky lantern release
• Mae Jo University event
• Temple celebrations

Nine-day Taoist celebration with dramatic street processions, fire walking, and extraordinary vegetarian street food across Phuket's Chinese shrines.

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• Street processions
• Fire walking
• Vegetarian street food

The Monkey Buffet Festival is Lopburi's quirky annual event in which the town's resident population of 3,000+ long-tailed macaques is treated to an elaborate feast of fresh fruit, vegetables, and sweets laid out on banquet tables near the ancient Prang Sam Yod temple. Started in 1989 as a tourism promotion, it has become a genuinely unusual and photogenic spectacle.

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• Enormous banquet of fresh fruit and vegetables laid out for the resident macaques
• 3,000+ long-tailed macaques descend on the food tables simultaneously
• Set against the ruins of Prang Sam Yod temple