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Samui Local Festival
Many of the holidays celebrated during the course
of the year are Buddhist, but some other very important ones such
as the Monarch's birthday, are not religious in origin. Except for
the closing of government offices and institutions, and occasional
one-day prohibitions on the sale of alcohol, these holidays will not
affect leisure activities very much.
Buffalo Fight
Buffalo Fight Festivals Unlike bullfights in Spain, bulls are fighting
bulls in Koh Samui buffalo fights. On Samui Island, buffalo fights
are held only on special occasions such as New Year’s Day and during
Songkran, April 13 to 16. The animals are decorated with jazzy ribbons
and gold painted leaves on their horns. Holy water is used to bless
the bulls before the fights. On fight days, two rounds are organized,
one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Songkran (Thai New year)
On April 13-15 every year the streets of every town and village on
the island are lined with giggling teenagers armed with an arsenal
of water guns, buckets. barrels , dippers, hoses and all manner of
delivery vehicle with which to launch their often icy-cold liquid
missiles. This exciting festival has long time tradition of Thai ancestors
due to the weather in April is the most hot in year round. Splashing
water is the best way to decrease hot and made their grand child to
be happy and cooperation.Moreover, this beautiful tradition could
shows a very good unit of Thai society, almost of the members of family
will back home to visit their relatives. At the mean time, is the
time to live with their family and their real relaxing after their
working almost whole year. In additions, during this time bring to
The Family Day and it's the Thai New Year in Thailand.
Loy Krathong (Light festival) : have floats, will dazzle
Thailand's waterways rivers, klongs, even hotel swimming pools will
be ablaze with dazing lights on the evening of Nov. 14, when the Kingdom
celebrates "Loy Krathong" one of the year's most-awaited
festivals.
"Loy" means to float, and "krathong" means a leaf
cup. Kratong is decorate by many kinds of flowers, candles with light,
incences to float in the canal, river,or sea after pray to get forgive
from the God of river that sometime made dirty and thanks for give
water to use.
This moniker seems apt as most floating objects you see during Loy
Krathong nights are flowers formed like cups, if not artificial petals
that look like cups in many angles.
It is a most colorful festival. In most areas where it is celebrated,
you will see Thai women resplendent in colorful attire, hair festooned
with flowers, and gaily-dressed men, also fully garbed, gather with
floats in their hands wherever there's water. |
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