Showing posts with label thailand holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thailand holidays. Show all posts

Monday, January 31, 2011

Celebrate Valentine's Day in Thailand - Trang Underwater Wedding

If you are looking to do something unique and forever memorable to your beloved one, why not consider planning a trip to Thailand for Valentin's Day.

Trang Underwater Wedding ceremony has been held during Valentine's Day since 1996 aiming to promote an splendid traditional culture of Thai wedding ceremony to foreign wedding couples, divers, and tourists from all over the world.

Like what is suggested in its name, Trang Underwater Wedding ceremony features marriage registration under the water which welcomes all the bridal couples including the handicaps to join this lovely ceremony.

The ceremony starts with Buddhist rite and traditional Thai wedding ceremony of pouring lustre water, and

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Sparkling Night of Loi Krathong Festival

Loi Krathong Festival
Every year, when the full moon falls in the 12th month of Lunar calendar, Loi Krathong festival, a celebrations of water under the moonlight, will be held throughout of Thailand.

Loi Krathong is a ceremony of gratitude to thank Mae Kongka or Mother of Water for her scarification in giving us water to live on and generosity in forgiving us when we have ruin her water.

Loi is to float, and Krathong is a boat/raft, so the word Loi Krathong literally means to float a boat/raft into river. Krathong was originally a small cup made from bamboo or banana leaves, however, they are now transformed in to a flat slide of banana-tree trunk and decorated with colorful leaves and flowers. On the top, a candle and incense sticks are inserted.