{"id":2918,"date":"2019-12-13T05:03:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T03:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2019-12-13T05:03:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T03:03:06","slug":"chanthaburi-miracle-christmas-the-biggest-christmas-festival-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2918-chanthaburi-miracle-christmas-the-biggest-christmas-festival-in-thailand","title":{"rendered":"CHANTHABURI MIRACLE CHRISTMAS: THE BIGGEST CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL IN THAILAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best <a href=\"\/en\/cities\/\">destinations in Thailand<\/a> to find the Christmas spirit is clearly <a href=\"\/en\/cities\/chanthaburi\"><strong>Chanthaburi<\/strong><\/a>, 250 kilometers in the East of Bangkok. The celebrations organize by the christian community living there have grown in the last year to become the <strong><em>\u201cChanthaburi Miracle Christmas Festival&#8221;. <\/em><\/strong>Here is the\u00a0program for this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/chanthaburi-christmas-festival-tahiland-2019.jpg\" alt=\"christmas in thailand chanthaburi\" width=\"960\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/chanthaburi-christmas-festival-tahiland-2019.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/chanthaburi-christmas-festival-tahiland-2019-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/chanthaburi-christmas-festival-tahiland-2019-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/chanthaburi-christmas-festival-tahiland-2019-624x350.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>THE CHANTHABURI CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL<\/h2>\n<p>Each year, the Chanthaburi Christmas festival is held from December 21 to 24 . The centerpoint of the celebrations is the <a href=\"https:\/en\/visit-thailand\/cathedral-of-the-immaculate-conception-chanthaburi-217\">Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception<\/a>, the biggest one in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2921\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/christmas-festival-thailand-chanthaburi.jpg\" alt=\"christmas chanthaburi thailand\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/christmas-festival-thailand-chanthaburi.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/christmas-festival-thailand-chanthaburi-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/christmas-festival-thailand-chanthaburi-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/christmas-festival-thailand-chanthaburi-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Chanthaburi CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL PROGRAM<\/h2>\n<p>The highlights of the <a href=\"\/en\/events-thailand\/chanthaburi-miracle-christmas-193\"><strong>Chanthaburi Miracle Christmas<\/strong><\/a> are the 3D sound and light shows projected every evening on the facade of the cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>There will be every evening on December 21, 22 and 23, first a teaser at 8 p.m. then a show at 9 p.m. and another at 10 p.m. which will end with fireworks. On the 24th, the program will be a little different because it will have to last until midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the official program for the last evening, December 24th, 2019 , translated from Thai:<\/p>\n<p><strong>7:30 p.m . :<\/strong> Raffle and dances<br \/>\n<strong>8:00 p.m .:<\/strong> Teaser 3D Mapping Miracle Christmas (short version)<br \/>\n<strong>8:15 pm:<\/strong> Christmas carols<br \/>\n<strong>8:30 pm:<\/strong> ceremony<br \/>\n<strong>10:15 p.m .:<\/strong> 3D Mapping Miracle Christmas (full show with light projections on the cathedral)<br \/>\n<strong>10:35 pm:<\/strong> Christmas carols<br \/>\n<strong>11 p.m .:<\/strong> 3D Mapping Miracle Christmas<br \/>\n<strong>Midnight:<\/strong> countdown and fireworks followed by a distribution of panetonne cakes and drinks<\/p>\n<p>Besides finding the Christmas spirit in Thailand, it can be interesting to see how this holiday is celebrated in another country. And Chanthaburi is a charming city which, for me, makes a pleasant 2-day stopover on the road to the islands of <a href=\"\/en\/cities\/koh-chang\">Koh Chang<\/a> , Koh Kood or Koh Mak.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, the other very nice festival for Christmas in Thailand is the <a href=\"\/en\/events-thailand\/sakhon-nakhon-christmas-parade-117\"><strong>Christmas Star Parade in Sakon Nakhon<\/strong><\/a> in the north-east of Thailand I was there last year and I loved it !<\/p>\n<p>You will find in the main part of this website all the information to organize your stay in Chanthaburi and many of the coming events on the page about <a href=\"\/en\/events-thailand\/\"><strong>festivals in Thailand<\/strong><\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best destinations in Thailand to find the Christmas spirit is clearly Chanthaburi,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-festivals-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}