One of Thailand’s most beautiful and spectacular traditional festivals, this year Loi Krathong celebrations will take place in November throughout the kingdom, as per media reports.
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is pleased to invite tourists to experience the beauty, charm, and culture of the 2022 Loi Krathong festival celebrations that will take place throughout Thailand in early November.
One of Thailand’s most popular and most visually stunning annual festivals, Loi Krathong is celebrated during the full moon of the 12th month of the Thai lunar calendar. This year the festival is on Tuesday, 8 November.
Also known as the ‘Festival of Lights’ and the floating lantern festival, Loi Krathong sees people everywhere gather in the evening at lakes, rivers, canals, and beaches to participate in the celebrations and pay respect to the goddess of water.
In Thai, the word Loi means ‘float’ and Krathong means ‘container, boat, or vessel’, and people float a krathong decorated with candles and flowers onto the water. The Thais believe this is a way to rid oneself of bad luck and negative feelings, and to bring good luck and positive feelings.
In Northern Thailand, celebrated in conjunction with Loi Krathong is the Yi Peng Festival, in which illuminated lanterns are released into the night-time sky. The sight of hundreds of candle-lit krathongs floating on the water and the bright lanterns rising upward into the sky is a truly enchanting spectacle to behold.
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