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Seek New Year blessings
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 02/01/2014
» To seek blessings for the New Year, Buddhists are encouraged to visit temples located on and around Rattanakosin Island and the Chao Phraya River within one day anytime in the first month of the year.
Balloon festival in Chiang Mai
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 28/11/2013
» The ''Thailand International Balloon Festival 2013'' will be held on the golf course of Chiangmai Gymkhana Club from Dec 7-8 and is expected to attract up to 50,000 people.
Silk festival in Khon Kaen
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 07/11/2013
» The International Silk Festival and phook sieo ceremony will be held from Nov 29 to Dec 10 in front of the provincial hall of Khon Kaen in Muang district. Organised annually, the event aims at promoting the weaving of silk fabrics, especially mudmee silk, and reviving the phook sieo (officially declaring friendship between two people) ceremony.
Nationwide vegetarian festivals
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 03/10/2013
» The Vegetarian Festival originated in China, and is based on Chinese belief that seven Lord Buddhas and two bodhisattvas (enlightened beings) annually visit the world in the form of nine deities. They stay for nine days and nine nights in the ninth lunar month. In Southeast Asia, the Vegetarian Festival has become a tradition in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. This year, the festival will be celebrated from tomorrow until Oct 13.
Portal to the past
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 20/06/2013
» To city folk, who prize it as place to buy fabric, garments and other goods at bargain prices, its name is now synonymous with what tourists call Chinatown, but Sampheng was once the bustling heart of this capital of ours, an important port and trading hub with a cosmopolitan tolerance for all faiths which, in addition to temples and shrines for Buddhists of different schools, also accommodated places of worship for Muslims.
Ban Chiang Festival
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 07/02/2013
» The 2013 Ban Chiang World Heritage Fair runs from tomorrow to Sunday at the Ban Chiang National Museum in Nong Han district, Udon Thani.
Thai tourism biz goes digital
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 27/12/2012
» Surfing online one day, I was checking a Facebook news feed when I came across the TAT governor's fan page: IamSuraphon. Seeing a lot of information about tourist attractions and festivals in Thailand listed there, I realised for the first time how seriously the Tourism Authority of Thailand is viewing the Net, and social networking sites in particular, as a marketing tool.
Coming back to life
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 22/11/2012
» About 20km from Muang Prachin Buri is Si Mahosot Ancient City. It boasts Thailand's oldest replica of the Lord Buddha's footprints and also the country's oldest offshoot of Phra Sri Maha Bodhi Tree in India under which the Lord Buddha meditated and attained enlightenment 2,600 years ago.
The zhuang cultural connection
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 25/10/2012
» About three hours' drive from Guilin in China's Guangxi province is Ping An, a Zhuang village famous for its beautiful terraced rice fields and millennia-old culture.
Central Region goes vegetarian
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 11/10/2012
» The Vegetarian Festival originated in China, according to Taoist tradition, and lasts for nine days and nine nights in the ninth lunar month. In Southeast Asia, it has become a tradition in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. This year, the festival runs from Sunday until Oct 23. In the Central Region of Thailand, tourists can visit any of the 19 participating provinces.