:: Yasothon Bun Bangfai Rocket Festival
| Date: |
5 - 9 May 2010 |
| Venue: |
Phaya Thaen Park, Mueang District, Yasothon |
The underlying logic and science behind the famous rocket
festival, scheduled for 5 to 9 May, in the unassuming northeast town
of Yasothon, is not to be found in a chemistry laboratory. While the rocket owners pack as much as 25 kg of black powder into plastic or bamboo pipes to
give their homemade missiles take off, the blueprints for this exceptionally noisy festival are traced in the mystical skies ruled by gods.
Approaching rain clouds signal the start of the rice planting season, but according to northeastern folklore the first raindrops fall only
when the gods are in the mood for love. They need encouragement hence the importance of the Bun Bang Fai, or rocket festival, to stir
the mythical community, resident in the heavens, to bless earth with fertility and rain.
:: World’s Durian Festival
| Date: |
1 - 31 May 2010 |
| Venue: |
Chanthaburi |
Decorations of fruits trays of government
and private sectors, Trade Fair of Housewives, Local OTOP Food Fair,
Fruit Decoration Caravan, Fruit and Processed Products Contest, Good
Quality Jewelry and Accessories Fair
:: Visakha Buddha Bucha Festival
| Date: |
22 – 28 May 2010 |
| Venue: |
Sanam Luang, Phranakhon District, Bangkok |
Decorated processions on Visakha Bucha Day
of government and private working units and exhibition about Visakha
Bucha Day, contest of flower bush Trays, Contest of Soraphanya
Reciting
:: Rayong Funkky Fruit Festival
| Date: |
1 - 31 May 2010 |
| Venue: |
Rayong City |
We welcome all to the brand new "Rayong Funky Fruit Festival"-a
borderless celebration of heritage, nature & culture in this
stunning province of Rayong. We celebrate Rayong's natural gifts
with "StarFruit", an exhibition and promotion of Rayong's great
agricultural tradition as well as "Rayong in Pictures". The heritage
& peoples of Rayong are given new life in Live Poetry in the "Suntorn
Pu Lives!" performances as well as "the Originals"-musical
performance by artists from the original peoples of Thailand's East
- the Khmers, the Tai, even the rare Chong peoples. To this festival
of great food, culture and exhibition we add a full-blown Funky
Fruit Musiq Festival featuring the Best of Thai Musiq & our own
original World Musiq recipes...
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