News Forum - Everything you need to know about Loy Krathong

[Thaiger]

Thailand celebrates a number of festivals throughout the year, including the beautiful Loy Krathong festival. Known as Thailand’s Festival of Lights, Loy Krathong is one of the biggest celebrations in the Thai calendar. This picturesque festival is a time for people to gather around rivers, canals, ponds, lakes, and other bodies of water to release lotus-shaped rafts onto the water. Today, the festival also features spectacular performances, beauty pageants, and fireworks. If you want to join the celebrations, here’s everything you need to know about Loy Krathong. What is Loy Krathong? Loy Kratong, which translates to “floating banana tree trunk,” […]

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[Bob20]

Thanks for the explanation. What would be handy to know as well is that the sky lanterns were banned in CM last year already. Even the year before Covid there were only few from restricted launch areas.

And can you publish what time that one Kratong will be set-off to float? Wouldn't want to miss it. Or is TAT predicting several million still? And expecting lots of rich tourists to arrive before mid-November?

[AlexPTY]

stay home....