Chiang Mai Yee Peng Festival - Thailand

Chiang Mai Yee Peng Festival

For Loy Kratong, Chiang mai is organizing the Chiang Mai Yi Peng Festival. Traditional performance in Lanna style and floating lantern contest, join a demonstration of how to make Krathongs and Yee Peng lanterns.
But Yee Peng Festival, is also the opportunity to aprticipate to the biggest lanterns release into the sky in the country. It takes place in Dhutanka Lanna Meditation Center (Tel: 053 353 174) behind Mae Jo University (GPS: 18.898329,99.013313) about twenty kilometers from Chiang Mai.

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More information : TAT Chiang Mai Office - Tel. 053-248-604

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