How To Celebrate The Thailand Flower Festival In Chiang Mai
Each year the colorful Chiang Mai Flower Festival is held on the first weekend of February. At the end of the cool season is when these flowers in Thailand are at their best, with the high point of the festival being a colorful parade of magnificently decorated floats held on the morning of Saturday. Beauty queens from northern Thailand sit atop these floats, which are literally covered in hundreds of beautiful flowers. The public gardens and their breathtaking flowerbeds are another main attraction of the festival that make it worth seeing, whose color and elegant displays are maintained until the end of Sunday. The festival also draws people who are looking for a superb culinary experience featuring the flavors of Thailand as well as the opportunity to view the cultural performances that are featured in this annual festival. The exotic orchids, blooms, and flowering plants make up the showcase that both home and garden lovers can appreciate during the temperate cool season of the valley.
Many organizations and sponsoring companies are attracted to the grand parade that is the main highligh of the Chiang Mai Festival, beatifying the floats with many colorful decoration and capturing the imagination of the spectators with elaborate and breathtakingly vivid colors, and sending a very important eco-tourism message in the process as well. Lining up alongside the train station to Narawatt bridge, the Thailand Flower Festival parade starts at 9am, going down along Thapae road, and then turning left, following the moat to Suan Buak Haad City Park. The colorful floats, northern Thai beauty queens, and the hill tribes that make up the parade move at a slow pace, stopping every now and then to give spectators and a fair share of tourists the opportunity to take photographs. At the end of the parade a celebration begins to choose a new Festival Flower Queen for the year. and the magnificent floats are put on display at the Suan Buak Haad City Park.
One can visit the elaborate displays made by landscape specialist for the viewing benefit of the public at the Suan Buak Haad City Park after watching Thailand’s version of the Rose Bowl Parade. From the strident red of the poinsettias and electric orange and lilac of the bougainvilleas, one will find the city completely awash in vibrant colors that reflect the entire spectrum of the rainbow throughout the Thailand Flower Festival. The petunias also come in a variety shades ranging from pink, white and purple. The entire festival lasts for the entire weekend, turning the city into one giant party and a major holiday destination for anyone who plans to visit Thailand during this particular time of the year.
Tip of the Week: Simple flowers for you home – Orchids in a pot.
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