Thailand flower garlands and coloured lanterns Festival

Coming to Thailand in November this year, you will have the opportunity to admire one of the world's most beautiful scenes voted by Lonely Planet; when the sky and water will be lit by thousands of coloured lanterns at Loy Krathong Festival.

The outstanding beauty of Thai girls in traditional costume with the glowing lanterns is the easy to see in any travel magazines and posters when November is coming, and it is a sign of Loy Krathong  festival.

Beautiful Thai girls in traditional costumes dropping flower garlands and lanterns.

In Thai, Loy means "drop" and Krathong means "flower garlands" decorated in lotus-shaped with banana leaves, flowers, candles and incense. Loy Krathong takes place on the night of the full moon of the 12th month according to the Thai calendar (about November in normal calendar). This year, Loy Krathong will take place on 6th of November, but in many places, the formal rituals of the festival takes place from 5 - 7/11. 

The purpose of the Loy Krathong festival is a tribute to the water goddess who gives people plenty of water, and excuse people from the actions muddied water. Dropping the coloured lanterns is also a way to repel bad luck in the past and pray for blessings in the future. Many people believe that if the candle is still lighting until "krathong" out of sight, then their wishes will come true. Besides the ritual of dropping  flower garlands and coloured lanterns, many other interesting activities will be also taking place during the Loy Krathong festival such as making Krathong lanterns contest, Noppamas beauty competition, folk games, art and fireworks performance...

Thousands of lanterns are releasing into the sky at Loy Krathong festival in Thailand

If you go to northern Thailand, you can admire spectacular Loy Krathong festival in Chiang Mai, and enjoy the atmosphere of releasing millions of lanterns into the sky, so called Yee Peng festival. You can also visit Tak province, where thousands of candles lighted in flower garlands and coloured lanterns along Ping river. Then you can see closely the flower garlands and lanterns made ​​of 100 thousands banana trunks in Samut Songkram province. Festival specially recalled the heyday of the Kingdom of Thailand's ancient capital in Ayutthaya or Sukhothai province, with a series of activities such as beauty queens parade, fireworks, artistic traditions, and reapearing the floating market and local markets activities, etc. 

Going on a colourful boat and dropping beautiful lanterns is one of the interesting activities during the festival

When coming to the "city of angels" Bangkok, you will be able to take beautiful pictures to record shining moments of poetic Chao Phraya River, where the flower garlands and lanterns activities of capital citizens are taking place. Many places in the city hangs red lanterns showing the the spirit of the people celebrating the festival. You can choose how to enjoy the flower garlands and coulured lanterns festival on a cruise along the glowing river, or enjoy the family dinner with delicious cuisines of Golden Temple country, or drop lantern with your wishes along the Chao Phraya River and in some few hotel pools along the river.

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