Guide ChiangMai

Today’s Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand. Visakha Bucha falls on the full moon of the sixth lunar month and it commemorates the dates of Lord Buddha’s Birth, Enlightenment and Mahaparinibbhana.

In Chiang Mai, devotees gathered and made their way up Doi Suthep on foot under the moon light last night. And this morning, many Thais would have made merit by offering food to the monks.

I hope that all Thais will receive good luck and the protests and political unrests will soon become a thing of the past.

Still remember this contest by Bangkok Post? Well, it’s been a year and the results are out! Here’re the top nine in alphabetical order:

•   Amphawa Community, Samut Songkram
•   Klong Suan 100-year-old Market, Samut Prakan
•   Pai, Mae Hong Son
•   Phu Khum Khao Dinosaur Museum, Kalasin
•   Phu Soi Dao National Park, Uttaradit
•   Si Satchanalai Historical Park, Sukhothai
•   Sukhothai Historical Park, Sukhothai
•   Wat Phra That Lampang Luang, Lampang
•   Wat Phumin, Nan

Yeah, it’s been a while since my last post. Some thing (and then some more things) cropped up. Anyway, here are some videos of Songkran concert parties in Chiang Mai that were really hot, and really wet!

First, Discovery’s concert:

Lines and lines of girls on stage, spraying and blasting water on the crowd non-stop! This was on Huaykaew Road Chiang Mai. You know, I really hate getting wet. But it gets so hot that it’s better to be wet!

Second video of Discovery’s concert:

Discovery is a club on 12 Huaykaew.

A different concert, also on Huaykaew Rd

This concert (there were at least 3) was in front of the shopping mall Kad Suan Kaew.

From Bangkokpost.com:

CHIANG MAI : Local tourism businesses are committed to repositioning Chiang Mai as a destination for the meeting, incentive, convention and exhibition (Mice) business in place of leisure travel in an effort to address a tourism slowdown in the province.

The northern province has been seen as a leisure tourism destination for 30 years but few new tourism products have been developed to attract return visitors, according to Kanok Suwansutr, president of the Northern Chapter of the Thai Hotels Association.

”The private sector hopes that the repositioning of Chiang Mai will help attract Mice visitors to revisit throughout the entire year, not just for [the October-February high] season at present,” said Mr Kanok.