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Chiang Mai Yee Peng Festival - Thailand

Chiang Mai Yee Peng Festival

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Location: Chiang Mai

TAT Chiang Mai Office - Tel. 053-248-604

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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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Thailand is rich in traditions and has many festivals, some of which are famous worldwide. Loy Krathong, sometimes called the Festival of Lights, takes place in November and was voted the second-best festival in the world. It is undoubtedly the most photogenic festival in Thailand.

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