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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With a lot of traditions, festivals in Thailand are numerous and some are worldwide famous. Loy Krathong sometimes also called the Festival of Lights is held in November and was elected second best festival in the world. It must be said that this is the most photogenic festival in Thailand.
The main events of the Buddhist calendar but also the anniversaries of the King and Queen of Thailand and other days related to the History of the country are holidays in Thailand. If banks and administrations are generally closed those days, transport, shops and restaurants operate normally.