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The Chiang Mai Thailand Flower festival
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Welcome to All Thailand Experiences -- This is Thailand's greatest flower
show, featuring a parade of floats made with colorful flowers, beautiful
Thai and hill tribe girls in traditional dress, a Miss Chiangmai Flower
Festival beauty
contest and loads of exotic plants and flowers on display.
The Chiang Mai Flower Festival
 Chiang Mai Flower Festival Parade |
Every year during the first weekend in February is the Chiangmai Flower
Festival. The city is awash with vibrant colors ranging from the electric
orange and lilac colors of the bougainvillea to the velvety blossoms of
petunias in all shades of
pink, white and purple. The strident red of the poinsettias, bought by many
at Christmas and New Years, is echoed by beds of scarlet salvias. Homes
and shop owners alike line the city streets with colorful flower boxes.
The sheer profusion of color
that the flower festival and carnival brings to Chiangmai aptly gives the
city its name “Rose of the North”.
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On all three days of the festival, prize blooms are on display at Suan Buak Haad near the city center.
Every type of flower, miniature tree and orchid is put on display for the judges to choose the best of the
species. Landscape specialists put on an elaborate display, which includes patios and waterfalls with exotic
decorative plants and flowers.
The best part of the flower festival is on Saturday. This is when we load our
lawn chairs and ice chest in the pick-up and head to D.K. Bookstore along
the moat in the city center. We go there because there is plenty of parking
and excellent
coffee and pastry shops.
On the way we passed the flower covers floats, Hill Tribes and Thais in their traditional dress and uniformed marching
bands all getting in line to start the parade. We had to leave the house before 8 AM as the parade start around 9 AM.
Although it would not be until 10 AM until the parade reached us we had lots of fun eating food from local vendors,
relaxing in our lawn chairs at curbside and watching the world go by.
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The parade lines up from the train station to Narawatt bridge so the police close most of Jarenmuang Road around 8 AM.
The VIP viewing stand is right next to the bridge in front of the Chiangmai Governor’s home. The Parade route goes down
Thapae Road to the Gate and turns left and follows the moat to Suan Buak Haad City Park.
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Flower Festival Float
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The parade moves at a slow pace and stops several times so there is plenty of time to take pictures of the colorful floats,
pretty girls and hill tribe people in costume. The people in the parade hand out roses to spectators lining the road.
When the parade finishes everyone heads to Suan Buak Haad where all the floats, award winning flower growers and landscapers
projects are all on display. There are plenty of food stalls located in the park and in late afternoon the Miss Chiangmai
Flower festival starts. The party goes well into the evening until the new Flower Festival Queen is chosen.
This is a great time to visit Chiangmai, as the air is cool and the evenings
fresh and clear. If you want to see the festival make sure you book your hotels
and flights well in advance.
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This document was updated on:;June 14, 2010
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