Chiang Mai Flower Festival

Flower Festival

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February 4th 2006
This morning we are woken by lots of noise, it's a brass band playing 'The Final Countdown'. Thanks to one too many mohito's last night it's not the kind of thing you want to wake up to. Today is the annual Flower Festival parade. Schools, local communities and just about everyone in Chiang Mai is involved in some way or the other. Beautifully decorated floats glide around the moat and up and dow ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more