Date: 18-20 April, 2012
Location: Lan Pho Na Klua, Wat Chai Mongkhon
Enjoy Songkran Si Maha Racha and participate in Kong Khao Festival.
The ritual to thank Mae Po Sop, the Goddess of Rice, enjoy folk plays and entertainments.
For more information: Pattaya City 038-253100
Date: 17-April, 2012
Location: Sattahip Temple
Over 500 Buddhist devotees gather up at Sattahip Temple to pay respect to the former chief abbot ‘Luang Pho Ee’, and listen to chanting from the monks to bless them to have a brighter year to come.
For more information: Sattahip Municipality 038-438490
Date: 16-18 April, 2012
Location: Bangpra Beach
Get wet on Bangphra Beach, enjoy folk plays, entertainment, and beautiful parade throughtout the event
For more information: Bangpra Municipality 038-357999
Date: 16-17 April, 2012
Location: Bangsean Beach
One of the most interesting events during Songkran is the Sandcastle building competition on Bangsaen Beach in Chonburi.
With no shortage of sand to build sand-stupas on Bangsaen Beach, the stupa building contest is a predominant element of the Songkran festivities in Chon Buri.
Residents of the each of the villages in the district gather together to take part in community Buddhist merit-making. Monks are invited to conduct merit-making ceremonies and rituals, whilst local residents present merit-making offerings and sprinkle scented lustral water on Buddha images in a Songkran Thai New Year bathing ritual. Families pay respect to elderly relatives and other respected individuals.
Festival highlights include the ‘Kong Kao’ (rice mound) religious ritual, rarely seen folk games and traditional Thai sports, Songkran beauty pageant and the Siracha Songkran Parade.
Other activities include traditional folk games, including muay talay traditional boxing by the beach, and stalls offering local products and food.
For more information: Seansuk Municipality 038-193500-2 #322
Date: 13-19 April, 2012
Location: Koh Si Chang
Witness a rarely seen traditional courtship tradition on the island of Koh Kaam Yai, approximately 1 km from the island of Koh Si Chang. The men of the village invite eligible young ladies to join them for water-splashing in the sea. If consent is granted, the man carries the young lady down the beach to the sea and then carries her back to shore again, after which the couples take part in the traditional ram wong circle dance.
Activities
For more information: Koh Si Chang Municipality 038-216201
Date: 7-15 April, 2012
Location: Chonburi Province Ground
This festival held in the provincial capital in the middle of April every year since 1932, is primarily a Buddhist religious celebration and visitors interested in absorbing local culture will find it more interesting, if somewhat less exuberant, than the Pattaya festival which is also held each April. A procession honoring the Phra Puttha Sihing Buddha image is the featured event, and there are also folk games, classical Thai dancing and cultural performances.
For more information: Chonburi Province 038-282585
Date: 21-29 January, 2012
Location: Jomtien Beach
Pattaya’s Mayor, Khun Itipon, held a press conference, in his capacity as Chairman of the Thai Windsurfing Association, to announce the forthcoming 2012
The event will feature three individual competitions: 2012 RSX Asian Championships, 2012 Techno 293 Asian Championships and 2012 Mistral One-Design Asian Championships.
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Date: 25-27 March, 2012
Location: Eastern National Sports Training Center Soi Chaiyapruek 2
For more information: Brahman Breeding Facilitate Association 038-373116, 081-9084578
Date: 18-20 March, 2012
Location: Beach Road, Bali Hai Pier
The Pattaya International Music Festival aims to promote Pattaya’s image as a family beach destination and also as a city of music on the Eastern Seaboard. TAT, Pattaya City and GMM Grammy Public Company Limited have joined hands for the past 10 years in the staging of this international event.
Now regarded as one of the biggest international beach music festivals in Asia, it brings together a number of famous Asian and Thai artists and draws over 400,000 music fans from around the world each year.
Given the continued success of the event, The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and the Ministry of Tourism and Sports will be hosting the biggest ever event.
Billed as the one music festival in Asia that welcomes and entertains over 400,000 music fans from around the world each year, this highly popular international music festival is regarded as “The Longest Beach Music Festival in Asia”.
For more information: TAT Pattaya Office 038-427667
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Date: 17-20 February, 2012
Location: Bangsaen Beach
Bangsaen is a small beach town in the province of Chonburi, in the same province as the infamous Pattaya. Popular more among locals than tourists, Bangsaen is many locals’ first choice of a beach getaway as it is close to Bangkok and it doesn’t carry the same stigma as a scandalous destination as Pattaya.
The festival will take visitors back to Bangsaen’s glory days before the cluttered beaches and rows of concrete hotels. People are encouraged to dress up in 1960s fashion and there will be old school activities such as ballroom dancing by the beach and orchestra concerts, as well as exhibition of art and photographs and antique store booths available.
For more information: Saensuk Municipality 038-193500-2 #322
