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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. |
