Candle Festival

The conventional Candle Festival takes place throughout Asahna Bucha and Khao Phansa days, essential Buddhist activities that commemorate Buddha's first sermon and the start of Khao Pansa or Buddhist Lent which lasts for 3 months. The activities are marked through ceremonies and processions withinside the shape of large-scale, colorful parades of staggering floats with huge, extravagant candle wax sculptures, Thai conventional dance and music.

Although that is a non secular, merit-making event, it does now no longer save you individuals from injecting a healthful dose of sanuk for which Thailand is well-known. The untranslatable idea of sanuk may be defined as a form of ethos in which amusing and pride are imperative elements in anything you are attempting to achieve.

During the Candle Wax Festival this doesn't suggest alcohol-fuelled wild events like throughout Thailand’s well-known Songkran (Thai New Year) celebrations – in fact, alcohol income could be confined throughout the two Asahna Bucha and Khao Phansa days, as is common in Thailand throughout non secular celebrations. Don’t allow this idiot you into wondering that this may dampen the celebration atmosphere – plenty of dance, music, meals and different activities together with theatre and muay Thai or Thai boxing contests will upload to the festivities.

Location: Thung Si Mueang area of Ubon Ratchathani

Time: throughout Asahna Bucha and Khao Phansa days