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What’s on in Chiang Mai?
Date: 20 – 22 January 2010
Venue: Ban Bo Sang, Sankampang
Details: The Bo Sang Umbrella & Sankampang Handicrafts Festival is held during 20 - 22 January. The festival venue is Ban Bo Sang, Sankampang, where the village's central road is used to host a ‘street fair'. Stores decorated with traditional lanterns and umbrellas in typical Lanna style on both sides of the street impart a festive ambience to the whole scene.
Date: 6 – 9 February 2010
Venue: Chiang Mai
Details: The Flower Festival in Chiang Mai is an annual event held in February during the first weekend of the month. The city is all dressed up in vibrant colours of electric orange, various shades of pink, purple and even white. Bougainvillea, petunias, and other flowers in profusion seem to have given Chiang Mai its flowery name, ‘Rose of the North'. The three day long flower
festival attracts a lot of visitors. The cool and clear evenings in the pleasant ambience of the flower festival ensure that all hotels and flights are booked well in advance.
Date: 12 – 16 April 2010
Venue: Chiang Mai
Details: Songkran is a festival held to celebrate the Thai New Year which falls in mid-April. The Chiang Mai Songkran celebrations are very popular as there are plenty of fun activities integrated with several religious rituals. The most popular activity is the friendly water-fight held all over the city. People have a lot of fun in the parades and there is even a beauty competition to select a Miss Songkran.
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