Sa Lung Luang Festival

Public Park, Lampang, April 12, 2000
This festival combines religion with art and culture in which a large silver bowl of water is carried to bathe Phra Kaeo Morakot Don Tao, during the Songkran Day festival.

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Songkran,The Thai New Year
Bangkok, 12th to 14th April, 2000
Festivities take place at Sanam Luang, where a revered Buddha image is bathed as part of the merit-making rituals. Over the years, the festival has become a boisterous affair of water throwing. Few people escape getting soaked.

Phra Padaeng Songkran Festival

Samut Prakan, April 15-16, 2000
A well known and joyous anuual festival celebrated by the Mons, a group of Thailand's earliest settlers. The event involves a through clensing of the house, and conducting vibrant colourful processsions.

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Rocket Festival
Yasothon, May
Prior to the annual monsoons, Northeast villagers construct gigantic rockets to fire into the sky to "ensure" plentiful rain during the forthcoming rice season. The Rocket Festival is traditionally a period for letting off steam before ardous field work begins in earnest, and features beauty parades, folk dances, ribald and high-spirited revelry before the rockets are ceremoniously launched.

Royal Ploughing Ceremony
Sanam Luang, May
This is where oxen and Brahmin priests predict the coming agricultural season.

Visakha Puja
Sanam Luang, May
The festival marks the birth, death and enlightment of Buddha. It is celebrated with candlelight processions around important templates.

Phi Ta Khon Festivals
Amphoe Dan Sai, 26th - 27th June, 2000
Young men dressed as spirits and wearing masks,will join a prossesion to accompany a sacred Buddha image while teasing on lookers along the way.Contest of masked dancers will be featured.

Asalha Puja Day
8th July, 2000
On this day the Buddha gave his first sermon to his first five disciples after his enlightenment.