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 Yi
Peng Festival is held annually on Loi Krathong day. It is a very
interesting event of Chiang Mai. The festival features the release
of lanterns into the sky to worship the gods.
There are also fireworks, lantern contests, and beauty pageants.
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 Bo
Sang Umbrella Festival
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 Bo
Sang Umbrella Festival is held in January in Bo Sang Handicraft
Centre.
The festival features paper products, paper parasols in particular,
cultural shows, a parade showing traditional ways of life, and several
contests.
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City
Pillar Inthakin Festival
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City Pillar Inthakin Festival is held to invoke blessings of peace,
happiness and prosperity for the city and its residents. Buddha
images are paraded around the city. It is held at Wat Chedi Luang
for 7 auspicious days and nights in the 7th lunar month.
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Doi
Suthep Pilgrimage
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Doi Suthep Pilgrimage On the night of Visakha Bucha Day, worshippers
gather to light candles and make the 7-kilometre pilgrimage up to
the temple on Doi Suthep.
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Flower
Festival
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This 3-day event, held on the first Friday and weekend of February,
coincides with the blossoming of Chiang Mai’s temperate and
tropical flowers. Festivities include a parade of floral floats,
ornamental garden flower contests, beauty pageants, music and dancing.
The parade begins at Chiang Mai Railway Station, passes over Nawarat
Bridge and ends at Nong Buak Hat Park.
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Songkran
Festival
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The Thai New Year is celebrated with particular gusto in Chiang
Mai. Among the events are a parade of the revered Phra Phutthasihing
Buddha image around Chiang Mai town for ritual bathing, sand pagoda-making,
blessing of elders, and water splashing.
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